Meh

Starting this off a li'l shakily, but i'm basically on track. Plan calls for "Outdoor Mileage" on saturdays and sundays. That's generally hard for me to pull off cuz it's very time consuming, and the gym is closed on weekends. Have, as a gift from God, been able to go up for a day the last couple of weekends, and i do gotta say that's been amazing for getting my head back into climbing. Real rock is so totally different from plastic--very different techniques.

Anyhow, got in some hard routes (4 in fact, and with much hanging) on friday. Then got in the first ARC sesh on monday. That was 1x 30mins and 1x 20 mins--10 mins less than i wanted (time constraints), but 10 mins more than the program called for. So i'd like to think i'm a lil ahead of the curve.

Then yesterday i did a few routes, including a project that went at around 5.11+/12-.

Tomorrow calls for a second ARC session, and i'll technically have all the workouts in for this week. But it's a lot of climbing to fit in the two routes sessions per week: takes a lotta time. But i can already tell it's helping my climbing.

On the diet front things are a bit more haphazard. I'd actually gained a few lbs over the weekend cuz of holiday crap eating, and i'm almost back to baseline from that. Main thing is i've committed to limiting myself to one drink/day through most of the training phase with the idea of cutting alcohol out completely when performance phase comes 'round. But i had three glasses o wine watching a movie last night. That is unacceptable. Can't say i did any damage, excepting that i didn't sleep very well---but it's week one. Methinks i can drum up a bit more discipline than that.

Anyhow, there's my confessional; and i'm otherwise not too far off track. All said and done, i'm on track for a pretty satisfactory first week. And the moon wall's almost done. Need one solid work session to get 'er up.