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rl moving forward with optimism march 27 2011 finally freaked out my crazy running brother my job here is done posted by terri under family inner growth interesting reading tags boston rock gym climbing topless dd cup heart of steel comp mental training metro rock gym pictures rock climbing ruthie stacked whole body strength 6 comments i did it finally didn t think i could possibly freak out a guy who runs 100 mile races injuring himself halfway and continuing to run on for 60 more miles he s signed up for the leadville 100 in august i can t wait to go see and support him and take him to the hospital afterward in the medivac helo he s the same guy who ate a nathan s hot dog from a ny state thruway rest area the day before he decided to run a 50 mile trail race yeah that didn t work out so well for him and his intestines as you can imagine the guy who just ran a mile last week in 4 56 and does 6 x 800 repeats at 2 45 which is a seriously sick pace i can t even fathom for one 800 last week i actually set a new record for myself with a two footed weighted plank 7 5 pounds just spread the weight out more evenly and held it for 7 30 yep blew away my old record of 6 19 that i blogged about last week yay one thing i did learn not to do that again while wearing my racing flats my feet kept sliding on the mat the entire time and then my calves were killing me for most of the rest of the week when i told my brother this he said i blew his mind i did it then he said that he can only do it for about 2 minutes without shaking and stopping i was like really wow never thought i d hear that i realized today that running topless remains a popular phrase whereby people find my blog and tweeted about it a male friend of mine who shall remain nameless out on the west coast where he lives and whose first name rhymes with hill suggested a few terms i should use in my next post and see if they drive up traffic i will just put them in bold font throughout this post and also use them as tags to see if his prediction comes true wow are those people going to be sad when they get to my blog ha ha ha i actually had a really good weekend went climbing with a new friend i made at the gym it s the first time we ve hung out and i felt like i d already known her for a long time so that was very cool that s the climber toward the top of the red stripe notice the tall ladder to the right for a height perspective people in foreground are sitting down my friend had never top roped before so they wouldn t let her take the test at metro rock gym we went there because we knew the other place boston rock gym was having comps how they refer to competitions in the climbing world i am learning all day long but i took the top rope test which means i can climb and belay people there and passed phew we then just decided to boulder for a few hours by the time we were done my palms had gotten calloused a good thing for doing it on a regular basis going forward and my fingers hurt but luckily the rest of me other than my fingers were not really that sore guess my body is getting used to the new muscle groups being used this guy made it look so easy needless to say there s not an extra ounce of fat on this guy insane in so many ways the metro rock gym definitely has a much different feel to it some of the top rope routes are much taller than at the other gym which kinda freaks me out and it s a much larger room rather than a few rooms the crowd does tend to be a bit younger because it s accessible by the t i even saw a woman who was climbing topless get your minds out of the gutter boys she had on a sports bra like i do when i run topless she wasn t necessarily stacked enough to fill a dd cup really guys how many do you think actually exist who do but i was glad to see that kind of thing was acceptable there too yeah it might take me a while to get to that point however i think i will probably go to both depending on my schedule but i definitely like the approach the folks take at the boston rock gym and can understand why a lot of people prefer the atmosphere of it too we were clearly newbies there as were a lot of other folks but a really friendly supportive and experienced boulderer gave me some pointers which definitely helped every time i tried it afterward he was helping out another newbie friend at the same time as he was helping the two of us i was crouching up my body too much and holding all of my weight on my arms when i should have been resting them and i also learned that once you commit to take a move you just have to go for it and i just got a book called training for climbing yep i am a librarian after all and a good portion of it is about mental training something i think i can also apply to running guy is just about hanging by fingernails and the wall also forces him to be leaning back away from it like an overhang cannot imagine the upper body strength it takes to do that i went to see a bouldering comp on saturday night at the boston rock gym for those of you unfamiliar with the term it s climbing that doesn t involve ropes and usually you re not higher than 25 feet in the air probably even less inside i m not a good judge of height and if you fall you land on crash pads it s great to have a spotter for support but you can do it alone some of the climbers involved in the finals were professionals and it showed i ve posted a few pictures throughout the blog while they really don t do the climbers justice since they were taken with the iphone 3g which doesn t have a flash the strength and control these folks displayed was pretty awesome guys had to start one route by jumping and grabbing the handhold with one hand seriously difficult and at times both men and women had to climb upside down to pull off of the boulder yes part of the incentive to do well it got me inspired and ladies yes the guy is bouldering without a shirt on up above in one of my pictures for some reason still unknown to me a lot of the guys tend to climb topless if i ever figure out why i ll let you know i can just think of so many ways that that could cause pain if you made the wrong move or on the ropes can we say ouch my brother asked what i liked about the rock climbing so far i told him it s a new challenge for me and one that i think i can get better on given time and lots of practice and some good mental and physical training as runners i think a lot of us are in really good shape but let s admit it we usually have little chicken arms rock climbing is definitely a sport where you can easily find out where your muscles are weak i m hoping it helps me to improve my running times and honestly the people in that world seem to be so chill concerned about safety of course but it s a nice break from where i spend my working hours i like my job but the institution can at times be overly concerned with its image to its own detriment the only bad thing that happened this weekend is that ruthie s dad and i will continue talking about and arranging for visits with her but that will be it i don t want to go into details here other than to say i think it s for the best honestly it ll make for more of a clean and final break and maybe it will help us both move forward more easily no i m not made of stone i do think it s sad but it honestly is probably a good step for both of us to take right now and ruthie remains the one thing we both love so i ve included a picture of here too i ll continue to take lots of long walks with her and love and hug her to death when she visits ruthie playing with one toy while another one waits to be mauled lying next to her march 25 2011 i guess it is all relative posted by terri under inner growth tags boston rock gym indoor climbing inner growth it s all relative relativity rock climbing running paces running times 10 comments things that change depending on your viewpoint just like this photo it could be from early morning or early evening thinking you re fast or slow compared to other people like my bro who told me his goal is to run boston with average paces of 6 20 mile thinking you re fast or slow compared to some of your own racing times thinking you re feeling weak or tired one day because you can only hold a 1 footed plank for 7 26 knowing your record is much longer also knowing most people would be happy with half of that feeling sore from a workout you think is hard hopefully a month later it will seem easy feeling like today is a great day or not depending on what happened the day before feeling in control of and satisfied with your life feeling like things in life will get better or not feeling like it is better to have diminished expectations of people and things because it s easier has less likelihood of hurting you or whether that s taking the easy way out last summer i really didn t think things in my life would improve someone told me don t worry things will get better i didn t believe them at all because i was consumed in sadness and depression today i have a core group of old friends i still rely on as well as certain members of my family and many new ones have come into my life many of you reading this should know who and what you are to me today i know a bad day is just that a bad day one that will pass and even if the next one isn t great there will be better ones and compared to what i have been through it s still better now the way things were it goes hand in hand with feeling in control and satisfied with my life two years ago i thought i was happy with being a 10 minute miler today i m running comfortably in the 8 mins range and am aiming to be within the 7 minute range by the end of this year i look at the progress of the past years and especially the last few months and know i can continue onward i m still not as fast as my brother who wants to run boston this year in 2 42 but i m getting faster relative to him sadly i am not growing any taller in relation to him i ve even run a race where my first mile was under 7 something i would never have thought possible and i still kept going i didn t fall to the ground with a sign on my head saying please drag me over the finish line don t trample me i held a 1 foot plank position this morning for 7 26 just didn t feel like i had it in me and felt weak not too long ago i would have been psyched with that now i know i can do better a little while ago i was afraid to take chances paralyzed with fear in many ways and thinking i couldn t deal with being on my own now i feel comfortable in my own skin not afraid to meet new people and try new things i m still afraid of heights but now i can point to the fact that i can scale a 30 foot wall sometimes and not feel afraid i sometimes think it would be easier for me to go through life just expecting a lot less of people then i wouldn t be disappointed at times or feel hurt which is something i m trying to avoid right now but then i think that that would make life kind of boring and it d take me back to that safe cocoon i used to live in when things were comfortable even if i didn t feel completely alive so when those defeating thoughts come to mind i try as hard as i can to push them away i recognize my mood for being down and just try to deal with it and move on first totally unrelated topic guys do you tend to work harder when there is a girl on a treadmill next to you a very nice coworker of mine said he won t get on one if there s a girl next to him because he knows he ll work himself harder than he should he s recuperating from knee surgery he said to me terri i don t know what it is you women have but you can just keep going and going and going maybe it s the stress you re trying to get rid of maybe you just zone out maybe you just have more endurance and then proceeded to tell me of this amazing woman he saw running at his gym who was running before he got there and still was at a fast pace after he was done and showered and ready to go you go girl whoever you were hey if i ever make a guy on a treadmill next to me work harder than he would otherwise do i just say dude you re welcome second totally unrelated topic i met the owner and manager of the boston rock gym last night when i was there climbing turns out someone had read my earlier blog post that mentioned i d gotten the climbing bug as well as the name of his establishment when he realized i was there last night he wanted to meet me he was a super nice guy he even offered to belay me some nights if i didn t have a partner saying he would love to get the opportunity to have some fun like that he even showed me a sneak peak of what they are putting together for their bouldering competition tomorrow night march 26th the guy has so many years of experience i would love to learn or get tips from someone like that you never know who your words can affect and how that person can in turn affect you just hope that it s always positive next page subscribe by email please enter your email address to subscribe to this 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