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A while since I updated... Wednesday last week Climbing, a slight improvement over Monday but still not brilliant. Thursday Rest day; 10 miles walk and 1 mile swim Friday Another rest day, so 12 mile walk. Saturday Caving, lots of surveying and digging. 8.5 hours. A big boulder moved unexpectedly on one dig, which was a…
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I got home late on Sunday, and stayed awake for around 24 hours on the journey. I went climbing on Monday. I was terrible; I fell off everything. I had a short swim (1km) yesterday.
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I spent a week scuba diving in Kenya, at Watamu. It was brilliant. A friend (who has a PhD in marine biology) runs the marine bit of a local charity, so we tried to help restore the local coral reef. The reef is in reasonable nick, but it does periodically has bleaching events. (Some corals are only able to survive in a…
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@DiscusTank5 as @mtaratoot says, "dive" was shorthand for decompression treatment in the chamber(s). There were many chambers; my first two were in a big one with a nurse. The next ones were in a mono-chamber, a bit like a transparent coffin. (On a side note, Comex 30 is unusual; most people in the UK probably get Tabe 6…
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I did have a PFO; I got it plugged in 2020. It took 6 months to get full sign off post operation; immediately following it I spent 10 consecutive days diving the South Coast. I sold my twinset post bend; I bought a new one on this trip. Heated vests are lowest risk, and nicest, on the ascent. Sitting around ages at a deco…
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@DiscusTank5 I am a real wimp when it comes to the cold these days. Hence my cold water diving has three layers of undersuit beneath my drysuit, and a heated vest, and a big coat and hat to chuck on afterwards. I had hypothermia once; I don't recommend it. (Getting a scuba bend was probably worse, I don't recommend that…
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Rest day, so I swam 1 km
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My understanding is that 220 minus age is an approximation. It may be ballpark accurate at a population level, but the variance at an individual level is huge. No formula is particularly accurate. This paper has more details:
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Monday Climbing, 2 hours. Jumping practice, I was pretty poor, but it was fun. Tuesday Climbing. This was (I think) my 6th day out of 7; I expected to be terrible. I wasn't; I got loads of projects. Really good fun,; 3.25 hour session. I also got about 25,000 steps in. I am tired now.
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Saturday Climbing, 2 hours. Good fun; I got loads of v4s and only failed on one Sunday Climbing. Only 1.5 hours, my shortest session this year. Again, good fun and I was in reasonable form . I saw loads of copulating frogs on a walk after the climb. This couple was unsuccessfully trying to climb a flint rock.
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Yeah, I don't like the new UI at all. To make something bold in the old word, it was [b]Bold[\b]. Easy. In the new world, I need to highlight exactly the bit to bold, highlight the bits to bold, then a mouse click on B. I don't like using my mouse (I code using NeoVim, for example); so this strikes me as a huge step…
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Wednesday Climbing, 2.5 hours. Decent enough session; I repeated one of my recnt v5s; and got a whole slew of new v4s.
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Tuesday Rest day: 8 miles walk and a short swim. I walked to the swimming gym, and lost track of time. I had the choice between a short sauna and a 1 km swim (my usual) or a 30 minute sauna and shorter swim. I chose the latter; 450 metres only
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Saturday A short walk, maybe 9 miles. I went with a rather charming Italian lady, so I didn't want to do an ultra-long one and break her. Sunday Climbing. I got another v5. It's like buses; you wait for one and then loads turn up. This was quite a techical overhang Monday Climbing. Jumping practice; it rocked. I was…
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Ren is a genius.
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Yesterday was a sort-of rest day; so I swam 1 km. (I view swimming as a relaxing way to recover.) Today was 2 hours' climbing. I started badly, and improved. I eventually got a v5, it took about 20 goes to work it all out.
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I went climbing yesterday. Getting to the gym was an effort; then gravity was high. I suspect I've not recovered from Saturday.
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One thing that still surprises me is how non-linear weight loss is. Water weight and waste weight can have a material impact. My diet was 6 years ago (I went from 185-ish pounds to 140-ish, a BMI of 21.0). Since then, I've aimed to maintain between 140 and 147 pounds. (I find a range a lot easier to manage than a single…
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Medusa's Children. I am in the middle.
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I actually had rest days on Thursday and Friday. This was all part of a master plan, as I did a big caving trip today. 12 hours underground; 13 hours cardio total as the cave is a trek from the car park. We went to the Geyron formation in draenan. It is sufficiently remotes that very few. People per year go there. My…
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I did actually have a rest day yesterday; work got busy. I went climbing today. It was good; I got a couple of projects. My jumping has got way better recently. I taught a youngster how to do one. (She was trying to use arm strength. Instead, you crouch down and stand up explosively on the right leg; and let go if the hold…
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I tried a cavern diving course over the weekend. It turned out I was terrible a line laying, so I've turned two day course into three days. I need a bit of practice before booking the last day. I went for a swim and sauna after the two dives on Sunday. I went climbing today. We were trying jumpy stuff, I got some fun…
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Climbing, 3 hours. Cracking session again; I've got way better at v4s recently. I made progress on my major v5 project. The first move is a twisty jump with zero points of contact until you connect with two handholds. Then you swing around a bit to get a foot hold and bump the right hand. Unfortunately, I always fall off…
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@AnnPT77 I tend to eat around 2,400 calories a day, so not ridiculous amounts. Online calculators tell me this is in the range on "extremely active" for my stats (53 year old, 5 foot 9, 140 pound male). I tend not to worry about it too much these days; as long as my weight in the range I've deemed acceptable (140-147…
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I did a walk. I had a vague plan (leave my house, go along the Thames Path until it got dark, find the nearest station and get home.) One slightly annoying feature of the plan is that my house is nowhere near the Thames. So I decided to do the London Loop walk to Kingston to kick things off. My house isn't on the London…
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I'd strongly agree with this. If (say) the stair machine burns 50 calories more than the elliptical, it is kind of irrelevant if you hate it. You want something you'll still do in 1, 5 or 10 years' time. Also, if one believes Ponzer's model of constrained calories, (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4803033/) those…
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Saturday Rest day, so 12 mile walk. Sunday Climbing. It was good; I was on form. I was visiting relatives in Norwich. The climbing gym there has moved; the new location is sweet. Monday Climbing. Ok, not outstanding. I got a few v4s. I started slowly and improved. Tuesday Swam 1 km and had a sauna. Wednesday Climbing, the…
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I gave the gym more money, and now I no longer need the daring commando raids to get into the sauna. For walking, my vague hypothesis is that it's easier to do a lot of walking in most European cities than US ones. I have a holiday in San Diego a few years ago, and I didn't like it: it was the least pedestrian friendly…
