Apr 29 - May 4

Monday - Morning ride up LCC with Corey, and Joseph and Eliza came with us up to the 1st bridge. We started a bit later than planned, and I had to get back for a meeting, so we just went to Techy and back, 10.82 miles, 1 hour 30 minutes. woo. I got up the rocks AGAIN, and avalanche hill, and did the log in techy, snow was gone but things were still squishy, I'll get one of the techy rock piles next time! Also went bouldering around 2:30 since we didn't have violin today and I had Abi home to watch kids. I did 30:

• 1 V4s - white one on south boulder
• 7 V3 sends - 2 Black on South Boulder, Pink on North Boulder, 2x Red, White in OG, New Lavender on the North Boulder
• 2 V3 attempts - new Lavender in OG
• 9 V2 sends 
• 2 V2 attempts - new Orange in the OG sector on the 45 wall
• 9 V1s

Tuesday - A little hike down into Dimple Dell with Peter and Katharine. Also did the monkey bars, and held on with one hand for 10 seconds each hand! 

Wednesday - Corey and I morning ride at Corner Canyon! Up Canyon Hollow and down Rush, doing Rush the end twice. 6.83 miles, 1 hour 1 min, I got a silver achievement for Rush the end! 1:38, my PR gold for that was July 15, 2023 1:34. cool! Then went climbing at 8pm, did 6 top rope climbs. (CT = Corey first, then me):

• CT Purple 5.10a
• CT Red 5.10b
• T Black 5.10a
• CT black 5.10b
• CT green 5.10a
• CT Orange 5.10d

Thursday - Wonderful Wonderful flows this morning, yay. Bike ride with Corey and Katharine at 6:30 - took 1 hour 4 min to go to 3rd bridge. Then they headed home on the road and I turned on my strava (thought I already had...) and got 7.97 miles from there - so from 3rd bridge to Ruins, down techy (3rd place PR) and then dirty dirty sprint (got a PR gold on that!) then reverse fish tail. Strava just told me that this was my 300th activity, cool. 15 min stretching

 

Friday - Climbing with Corey at 9:45 pm, 

• CT yellow  5.10a
• CT red 5.10c
• CT Green 5.10 c (d?) a new climb, people marking what they think it is
• CT (I couldn’t do it!) purple 5.11 a? I'm interested to see what grade this one ends up being
• C& T Green 5.10a
• on Boulder - Black V3

Saturday - Bike ride in Corner Canyon with Corey and Rob, Corey and Rob biked out there from home, biked up Rocky Mouth then to BST all the way to CC from there! Impressive. I only knew how to get on BST from Hidden Valley. I drove out to Coyote Hollow and then down Rush the end, to BST until I met up with them. Corey did 15.14 miles, 2 hours 1 min, 26 achievements, like Gold for Fly by night to Rush. He also wiped out right at the beginning of rush and got a good rash on his left leg, ouch! Totals for me: 8.99 miles, 1 hour 16 min, 14 achievements, like Silver on Brocks (4.44, PR was 4:29 on 6/24/23) Rushing Corners (1:38, PR 1:28 on 11/13/23) Quite a few Silvers on the Rush downhill so that's cool! PR on Chainless Rush (from the Ghost Falls jump in to almost the end?) 3:29, Previous PR was 11/13/23 3:32, 21 efforts doing that. Also a PR for Lower Rush, .3 miles in 57 seconds, 65 efforts on that, so that's fun! After that Corey, Rob and I also went to the jump track and did a few rounds, I want to learn how to jump. I got air twice and it was terrifying but I'm glad I didn't fall! I don't know how you keep your feet on the bike? I might need clips for that so I can hold the bike to myself.

April 22 - 27

Monday - Morning ride up LCC with Corey, we almost made it to the ruins, some un-biked-on snow stopped us. Probably will be rideable in another week or two. No achievements - 10.98 miles, 1:38:04 time, 1496 elevation gain (Corey got 10.96 in 1:39:42, 1492 elevation gain just had to make sure it's documented that I was faster and went further atleast one time this season, he'll be leaving me in the dust soon). RS meeting right when I got home, then ride with Katharine and Peter in the trailer after my RS meeting 3.72 miles, 35 minutes

Tuesday - Corey and I went climbing this morning (Hyrum took carpool for me) - we did top rope the whole time. We did 5 climbs, the same ones, Corey first then me except for the last one, I did the last one first and then Corey and then we were done. 

1. Purple 5.10a South Toprope - looked easy at first, I thought it would be a good warm up. Once Corey was up there it looked a little scary, like the holds were too far apart, but it was ok once I was on the wall - was able to send it
2. next we figured we better try a 5.10c, if we were going to do one at all, before we got spent. So we did a Green 5.10c on the East Buttress (wall on the corner where you can see all the boulders). I was able to send it and not cheat and not have to take a break! 
3. Then a Hot Pink 5.10b right next to the green. That one was good too! Sent it
4. We thought we'd cool down with an easy, so we did a Yellow 5.10a on the Back TR Sector. Easy, good!
5. I felt like I had a little more in me and wanted to do one more so I did a Green 5.10a right next to the yellow. It was a good climb session!

45 min of stretching between 4-5:00 during a talk with Nicole, did 20 min each leg in front split then 5 min trying for pancake with Natalie on my back

Wednesday - Corey and I were going to do a ride this morning, but he didn't get up and I was waiting for him, wasn't sure what was going on but didn't want to go without him but also didn't want to wake him, so I just read. Ended up not going climbing or anything, but did do a 45 second tuck at park while P&K played, one pass on the monkey bars

Thursday - bike ride up LCC with Corey, made it all the way to the ruins! 11.36 miles, 1 hour 45 minutes. I made it up avalanche hill and even made it up the rocks before the second bridge! We did techy on the way down! yay. A few places where we had to walk, but the fallen trees have been removed. On techy, most features (log, two rock piles) were too slippery cause of snow, but it was good other than that! One hour of splits  and leg stretching)

Friday - top rope with Corey this morning after dropping of Churchill carpool - did 9: two attempts and 7 sends: warm up on Purple 5.9, took it easy again with Yellow 5.10a, then Red 5.10b, Black 5.10a, Hot pink 5.10d woo! cool down with a Purple 5.9, then tried a Black 5.10d, made it half way up, then I was dead in my arms to I switched to the Orange 5.9 on the wall right next to it for the rest of way to top. Then Corey tried one more, a Red 5.10c, he did great, then I wanted to try too - got up about half way there and then we were done. So 7 sends and Black 5.10d and Red 5.10c, were the two attempts.

Saturday - Went climbing tonight from 9-10 before they closed at the Sandy Momentum with Corey AND Mel after we picked up Mel from Frontrunner. Did some top rope: Orange 5.10b, then Yellow 5.10b and White 5.10b right after with no rest. I wrote things in my notes, but can't see how to see my notes, so next time I'll write things in my own phone notepad. I also did attempted a 5.11a - I literally could not hold on anymore at the top. I rested twice, but my arms were so spent, I was BARELY able to get to the top holding onto the Orange 5.10b that was right next to it. Also did a little bouldering in between the top rope climbs, where Corey would belay Mel and I'd come back to belay Corey. For bouldring I did 11:

• 1 V4 attempt - a white that had holds that were basically upside down horns
• 1 V3 attempt - hot pink
• 3 V2 sends - Blue, orange, and yellow
• 5 V1 sends
• 1 V0 - purple

Apr 15 - 20

Monday - Bouldering at 7am, did 22:

• 2 V4s - white one on south boulder
• 7 V3 sends - Black 2x on South Boulder, Pink (really did it) Red 2x, white in OG, Blue in OG
• 13 V2 sends - one of these was a lavendar on the south boulder that I had tried weeks ago but hadn't done to finish before! Did it today, yay!

Tuesday - 1 hour bike ride at 7pm - fish tail plus a detour ride up to the 2nd bridge. Snow and a fallen tree kept me from going further.

Wednesday - Went around 9 today (thanks Hyrum for watching P&K for me) I did 24:

• 1 V4s - white one on south boulder
• 7 V3 sends - Black 2x on South Boulder, Pink (really did it) Red 2x, white in OG, Blue in OG
• 6 V3 attempts - the pink in the OG that I've done before, wasn't able to get it today, and another pink one in the OG that I've never gotten. Didn't get much further that I had last attempt
• 10 V2 sends 

Thursday - 6:30 pm ride with Corey and Katharine on shotgun on Corey's bike! We up the quarry trail, made it to the 2nd bridge. 8.50 miles, time 1:17

Friday -  I did 20:

• 1 V4s - white one on south boulder
• 4 V3 sends - Black, White, Red, Blue in OG
• 2 V3 attempts - new black and orange on the north boulder
• 4 V2 sends 
• 6 V1s
• 3 V0s

Also took a little ride around Dimple Dell with Katharine shotgun on MY bike! My first time riding with her, it was fun. 4.79 miles, 43 minutes

Saturday -  I snuck away tonight by myself, after Corey left to go to his dad's, and then Corey showed up there at Momentum to confront me for climbing when I should be watching kids or being more responsible? Teasing "So you gonna just leave me in the rest home when we're older?!?!" We bouldered a few: I did 9:

• 2 V4s - white one on south boulder
• 2 V3 sends - Black and Red
• 3 V2 sends 
• 2 V1s

and then we belayed each other on top rope, he did 3, I did three in this order:

• Green 5.10c, front TR Sector - I think I might have put one foot on a different color, I couldn't tell from on top, it was a good hard climb!
• Black 5.10b - Back TR Sector - good, I've done that one before  with Lily on March 29
• Purple 5.10a - Back TR Sector - repeat, also did this one before with Lily

Apr 8 - 13

Monday - We saw the eclipse! The weather miraculously cleared up for us, so grateful! It was beautiful!

Tuesday - 12+ hours in the car, drove through Abilene and Lubbock to see Wesley's mission, arrived in NM, a deer hit us

Wednesday - 10.5 hours in car, made it back home, yay, went climbing at 6, did 24:

• 1 V4s - the white one, yay I can still do it
• 5 V3 sends - Black on South Boulder 2x, Red 2x, and Pink (almost did it, I did the hard part so I'm counting it)
• 6 V2 sends 
• 11 V1 sends
• 1 V0

I'm hoping we don't cancel anytime soon

Thursday - 20 min stretching, then 15 min more later. Hanging from a pull up bar - 75 seconds, woo! Did some leg lifts as I hung, I think I did 7? 44 Yes' and 7 no's, Going to work on calisthenics, put Calistenics for Dummies on hold at the library, then found the author's youtube channel, good stuff

Friday - Bouldering with Corey at 6:30 am :) I only had 30 min before I had to head home for carpool, I did 14:

• 1 V4s - white one on south boulder
• 3 V3 sends - Black on South Boulder, Pink (really did it) Red, white
• 4 V3 attempt -  Red, White on north boulder east side, Yellow in OG
• 6 V2 sends 

Also 2 min 5 seconds of this swimmer one and done. I was picking up another book at the library yesterday and searched for any on calisthenics, and saw this one by Mark Lauren so put it on hold, googled him while I waited for Owen at soccer practice, and tada, another step in that direction for me. Oh, just saw that I mentioned all that yesterday, ha, swimmer again got more than 2:05, 2:07 I think?

Date night ride up Parleys Point via Cannon trailhead. 7.32 miles, 1 hour 14 minutes

Saturday - 1 min Handstand, Mark Lauren Yes and no's (64 yes' & 14 no's) 30 hanging knee raises combined with total 1:20 hang, Yoga block hip stretch with knees bent 5 min, with legs straight on 2 blocks 10 min

Apr 1 - 6

Monday - Spring break. I didn't go climbing this morning, cause I was up past 1 to pick up Abi from the airport. Went around 4 when I needed a break from packing - headed out tomorrow morning for a 20 hour drive (10 to NM, then 10 to TX). Total today 26:

• 2 V4 attempts - green in OG, red on south boulder
• 3 V4s - the white one 3x
• 6 V3 sends - Black on South Boulder, White in OG 2x, Red 2x, and new Pink on the north boulder from last Monday.
• 2 V3 attempts
• 9 V2 sends 
• 4 V1 sends

Won't be climbing again until next Thurs

Tuesday - 12 hours in the car

Wednesday - 10.5 hours in car, arrived in Texas

Thursday - hanging from a bar - 60 seconds, 40, then 20. A few pike presses and handstands, then 60 more seconds, then 30 and 30 more. Overate today

Friday - walked around the children's museum carrying Katharine. This evening we went to Joe Pool Lake, I did 8 or so passes on the monkey bars on the wide main beams of it.

Saturday - stretching during General Conference, played Horse with my nephew, some toy ax throwing. I got 8 in one throw session and tied Taden's best score (he was happy for me, he's just pretending to be sad (it took me a while to tie him...))