CoreCommit to Exercise - Round 5: Oct 29 to Dec 30

[ergophobe]

4/4 plus an extra - 5 total

>>  pullups with 50% of my bodyweight attached -- that's very impressive at any age.

Well, I've been a lifelong rock climber and when I was climbing a lot, this was pretty easy - lots of people I know can do one-arm pullups. Most of them aren't super strong in bench press though. It's all about your peer group.

[hungrygoose]

3/3

[Chunkford]

0/3

[ergophobe]

4/4

[eljefe3]

5/6

[hungrygoose]

1/3

[Rumbas]

3/3

[Chunkford]

2/3

[littleman]

4/4

[Drastic]

4/5

[nffc]

This for last week, hadn't realised we had started so I will take a 0/3.

[littleman]

Here are the totals for week #1.

Rumbas
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Week 1 - 3/3

Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5

Chunkford
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Week 1 - 2/3

Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4

Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 4/4

Hungrygoose
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Week 1 - 1/3

Eljefe3
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Week 1 - 5/6

NFFC
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Week 1 - 0/3

[ergophobe]

New PR on Royal Arches - 1:27:45 car to car, 32 mins on the route.

I know this doesn't mean anything to any of you, but I think it's in part because of this Commit that I've been knocking off PRs this past few months so it helps *me* to post it here.

Perspective - this is a good fitness measure for me because...

- that's 10-15 mins faster than last year
- My best ever was eight years ago and that was 8 mins slower than yesterday.
- SuperTopo tells regular parties to count on 10 mins for the approach, 7-10 hours for the route and 2-3 hours for the descent, so 9-13 hours is a "guidebook" time. http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-Royal-Arches-Area-Royal-Arches
- world class speed climbers will do this in under one hour.

[littleman]

>world class speed climbers will do this in under one hour.
And you did 1:27, that's very impressive!  Congrats.

[ergophobe]

4/4  - on a Thursday - someone must have switched my drink with littleman's!

> that's very impressive!

I don't know how impressive it is. Let's say no press releases were sent to the sporting media. Lots of people can do it I think (like a 3+ hour marathon for example), but breaking 1:30 something I've had in the back of my mind for eight years and I just have not seemed to be able to stay consistent with my exercise over the long term.

I think this little Sunday check-in every week has been a huge help to me. Just knowing that I'm going to publicly say how many exercise sessions I've done this week provides that little mental commitment I need to stay on track. So THANKS EVERYONE for continuing to keep this going.