Fun in the Sun

This weekend my mom had her company picnic and I went to E Street Bridge with my coach for some training exercises. Saturday was the picnic, in the morning I directed people in the parking lot and served ice cream in the afternoon. Between my two jobs I got to play a bunch of games that they had set up.  At the picnic I had won two Snap-On eight piece hex sets and a Snap-On impact wrench that was a water gun. Afterwards we went back my house and two neighbors came over and played cards. We had 8 people playing and normally when you have five people the game only take three hours. This card game had lasted five hours. We had alot of laughs and I'm hoping we can do that every Saturday night. Sunday me and my coach went to E Street Bridge where we spend the next two hours working on mental games and my bouldering. Then we went to the lake to look at the boats that were in the bay and to relax. As we were looking at the boats we were talking about weight training and things that I need to work on. I also have made a YouTube channel of different videos of me climbing and a flickr account of me climbing for you guys who want to check it out. Next Saturday, my mom has tickles to the Milwaukee Air Show and we get VIP seating and parking. Sunday my mom has VIP tickets to the American Airlines Air Show.

Warming Up

This weekend was a blast! I started out with watching my friends race in Food, Folks and Spokes on Friday. Saturday I headed up to Adventure Rock with some friends, where we spent the next 5 hours climbing. There I warmed up on a 5.9 lead following with two 5.8s lead. This weekend I was working on leading a 5.10+. I took a break from lead and moved to a 5.12 top rope that I have been projecting for two weeks. I am projecting this certain 5.12 because it is a lot of fun and I am able to get a little more than half way on it. Before I reach the spot that I fall, there is this move that I am a little short to do so I jump for it. Since I am jumping for this rock I start swinging. I swing just until I have enough control to bring my foot up to a heel hook move. We finished up with top rope by doing laps on three 5.10+ and a bunch more of fun routes that i just have to do when ever I am there.  We went back to lead climbing and I continued to work on 5.10s and did a set of laps on a 5.8. To finish up the day for climbing I cooled down on a 5.9 lead and did a couple of boulder problems and 5 pull ups. Sunday was perfect Mom had planned a suprise birthday party for my Dad's 60th birthday. We had ten people join us, along with my godparents. We spent the next 4 hours talking and making jokes and after wards we got back together to play a two hour long card game (which I won!). All in all this was a great weekend and I just can't wait till my season starts again. This past thrusday my mom decided that we were going to go out to Great Falls Park in Virgina about an hour away from Quantico. We finally get to go climb outside for more than a couple hours., but for like couple of days. We will be doing alot of top rope climbing. Some trad climbing to since my coach is comming with and is going to teach me and also use this as a training camp. My older brother is in Quantico for the next 3 months, we were also planning on visiting him if he had 72 hour leave.

Jump Start

I'm starting this blog to help everyone know what i do for training, climbing, and just being me. I'm starting to start training for next season. Right now my main focus is my weight lifting. I'm lifting 4 days a week different areas of body each day. climbing about 10 hrs a week. which is low for me.Sunday was a great day climbing. we went up to adventure rock.  when we go up there we climb very hard routes and a lot  of them .I started off warming up on a 5.9 lead and worked my way up. I attempted to top rope a 5.12b to make it about half way up. While I was climbing I realized it was becoming harder to climb a consist 5.10. part of my training when i go there is when I'm all done try to do as many pull ups as i can. After climbing my hands were so beat up that it hurt to close my hands. all in all its been a good training this week and a lot of fun and good training up at adventure rock