Endurance and rain...

It doesn't seem like it will ever stop raining, weve just had the wettest June on record which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. This combined with the fact that I've been working away again recently, this time in Poland, means that my level of outdoor climbing has been Practically zero. I have however recently decided to rejig the board, which now has a new set of wooden jug/crimp holds and I've set a 25 move endurance circuit ready for if I ever manage to get out on some trad at some point. Endurance has always been something that I've been weak on, so I've decided to do something about it. The first week was just spent tweaking the holds so it felt at an even level, tricky to do on such a small wall, then once I'd got it wired I've been doing sets of 3 to 5 runs until I can take no kore. Initially I couldn't even finish one set, but by week 2 I could do it a couple of times and tonight i comPleted 4 sets of 30 move circuit and 1 set of 25. I need to now bring the rests down to 5 mins if possible and maybe up the moves to 40 as its not feeling as hard as it was a couple of weeks ago even. I do feel strOnger already so I might start to reintroduce an element of power training before I get too into one thing. It'd be nice to get out on the rock sometime, boarding all the time loses it's appeal after a while...

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