Good Training day after a Lazy week

First real day of training since I started this. I have been stretching a bit since Saturday and this showed when i did press ups without pain in my wrists for the first time in ages. But really I haven't trained much at all until today

The day was supposed to start with a cycle to Soweby Bridge, not sure what the distance is from my house but it ain't far, probably just under 10 miles. Unfortunatly it seems that my bike needed some TLC, he really wasn't liking me riding him today. So plan B, get a bus to Halifax Hospital and run the remaining 2.4 miles to Soweby. This also didn't go so well, running is hard, really hard. I feel it was made harder by having my climbing gear in a bag on my back, I think I maybe ran a mile of it, but not all in one go.

Later I went climbing, the session seemed OK and i felt i made some progress on routes I'd been struggling with the previous weeks, and ending up in the climbing gym is always fun, I was previously trying to add 2.5kg to weighted pull ups every time I got to 10 reps of the previous weight, but last week when doing 12.5kg at about 6 reps i decided I'd try and see if I could get any reps at 20kg. I got one, but that was me sold, 20kg is the weight that I'm aiming to get, and so this week upon entering the gym this is what I started with, 2 reps, (i tried to claim 3 but the last rep was not a real rep at all) then 2 more after a rest followed by a single rep. There's improvement. This was followed by some swinging along the chin up bar moving hands along both in a controlled and uncontrolled manner and an attempt at doing a Push up with Luke on my back. Didn't happen, but my wrists didn't hurt, the little stretching I've done over the last few days seems to be paying dividends already. Then into stretching, Trying to stretch every Skeletal muscle from head to foot. Spent at least half an hour on that, should probably time it better next time.

I'm currently looking at doing a bit of Yoga or Pilates for a couple of weeks to really push on this flexibility if anyone is interested in joining me. Will be doing it somewhere in the Huddersfield area.

Week 1 Day 6, Walking and running 2.4 miles with backpack
                         Climbing
                         2,2,1 x 20kg pullups
                        Stretching