Left Behind

Today I had to miss the Parkside meet to go rock climbing. The experience was pretty fun, although I would have rather been with my team. I dominated the first couple of walls and then started to falter as my forearms and wrists got tired. Eventually I found myself stuck on a certain wall that nobody else seemed to be having problems with, and they refused to let me quit. My rock climbing "teammates" kept saying they wouldn't leave or let me come down until I made it up, but my hands just didn't have the grip left and after quite a while I had to bail.

After getting back to CUW I set out to do my 4 mile "tempo" workout, which actually turned out to be just a fast easy run (which is ironically an oxymoron). My fastest mile was 6:23. It was just a bit too cold (took me halfway just to get warmed up) and my hip flexors were too tired from the rock wall. I even had to stop halfway through the cooldown and stretch them out before I could make it the last mile back to campus.


While I was failing to conquer the repelling course and sucking at my tempo run, the rest of the team was tearing up the hills and woods at UW Parkside. From what I heard most of them seemed to do fairly well. Some big season bests and a couple of good packs out there. Pfeuffer came close to finally breaking 29 minutes (with Jon O not far behind) and supposedly said he could have done it if I'd been there. Next week, then, it'll happen for sure. I'll WILL them both under 29 minutes. I've got a special plan for that race. Hopefully it'll work.