Cold Fusion Blog

On Saturday I had an unexpectedly good training session. I had intended to take advantage of the good weather to have a day light session on the campus board. As the afternoon progressed however I felt tired from other distractions then it started to rain. After passing out on the couch for 15min I managed to summon enough motivation to start. Warming up I felt fairly sluggish after five days rest. Breaking though this I started to feel fairly strong. On the campus board I rapidly gained power and felt both strong and confident firing 1-4-6 and 2-4-7, so much so that I tried 1-4-7 again nearly latched the rung. Rain started spiting from the skies as shower clouds gathered in the darkness. This prompted a fairly good rant from me out loud about getting a hours dry weather in Scotland. Maybe something was listening as the rain stopped long enough for me to continue. Firing on through 5 sets of 2-4-7 and 1-4-7 I felt good touching but not quite catching the rung. Just as my session finished it started to rain again. Stolen moments indeed!
It was nice to feel strong and confident again, such powers are always but a glimpse of good form to me. Its strange that the best days occur when you least expect them. Hopefully the roll will continue for a few more sessions, its been seven years after all since I did 1-4-7 on my campus board.

After nearly ten days knocked out by the flu on returning from Siurana, I finally got training again. For the second time this month I’ve validated the link between traveling and catching bugs.

On wednesday night I didn’t feel too bad after nearly a two week lay off. Although I was dragging ass I didn’t feel completely weak. The campus session I had planned had to be delayed untill Friday evening because of rain. It was then I found as feared, I had lost alot of the form I trained so hard to gain. I know well that this is the nature of power, so hopefully a few session should replenish it and I can get back to 1-4-7 form in the next couple of months. I was also aware that my power endurance was low as my arms turned to jelly 5-7 moves into a problem. This was one of the factors that was detrimental in my last trip to Siurana.
I’ve also been seriously thinking about building a finger board for the house. After struggling to do dead hangs on the campus board I think I could make alot of gains in this area. Finger boarding certainly hasn’t done any harm to climbers like Dave Macleod, Roddy Mackenzie and Sam Clarke.