plum sauce wrapped in shiso and lean beef, chicken leg grilled with salt, outside skirt and yamakake wrapped in shiso and bacon. oh yeah, and cold noodle, bibimbap and vegetable soup!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
take that, rewind it back
Remember how last week I tried to climb without stressing too much before the race while still getting my endurance workout in? I just jotted some stuff down afterwards while I was at YVR waiting for Tina:
A small success: 2 long traverses and some overhung stuff. I suppose it should be 'long', though, because my traverses are pretty sad! I have to improve my endurance to the point where I can make it around the gym on a single traverse. This time, I only made it about a 6th of the way, and I can only blame so much on people being in the way!
This weekend, the team's in Vancouver, competing at Rio Tinto Alcan, our biggest dragonboat race yet! This is where we find out exactly how we measure up against the best teams on the west coast. It's exciting, but I'm slightly apprehensive as far as my personal performance goes. I haven't really had time to train as much as I'd like. I've only been to 2 practices after falling off my bike and before that, only 4 or so after the cast came off! And it definitely feels like I haven't had a chance to get back into paddling form. All that means though, is that this weekend, it has to be mind over body! I can't let myself get tired in any of the races.
edit: pic of the men's boat after their first race on Saturday!
A small success: 2 long traverses and some overhung stuff. I suppose it should be 'long', though, because my traverses are pretty sad! I have to improve my endurance to the point where I can make it around the gym on a single traverse. This time, I only made it about a 6th of the way, and I can only blame so much on people being in the way!
This weekend, the team's in Vancouver, competing at Rio Tinto Alcan, our biggest dragonboat race yet! This is where we find out exactly how we measure up against the best teams on the west coast. It's exciting, but I'm slightly apprehensive as far as my personal performance goes. I haven't really had time to train as much as I'd like. I've only been to 2 practices after falling off my bike and before that, only 4 or so after the cast came off! And it definitely feels like I haven't had a chance to get back into paddling form. All that means though, is that this weekend, it has to be mind over body! I can't let myself get tired in any of the races.
edit: pic of the men's boat after their first race on Saturday!
Friday, June 26, 2009
these are pictures of my tomato plant from the 15th, 18th and tonight. =D i think it's coming along pretty nicely, this is the first time i've really paid attention to growing a tomato plant, surprisingly enough! perhaps needs a little more water, some of the leaves are a little yellow. gotta ask robert what his magic is!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Tonight's regimen
Taking the vancouver dragonboat race into consideration. So, for tonight, I'm going to stick to endurance climbs and traverses and keep away from power moves! Wait, who am I kidding... I haven't done a power move since last year... >.<
Monday, June 15, 2009
i've tried this a few times
This is probably my fourth or fifth blog attempt. But I've finally come to terms with the fact that I'm just not that technical, not that insightful, and if I'm going to blog, it should be about the things I do and enjoy doing! Maybe this one will stay.
This blog will be mainly about my work-aside passions: snowboarding (winter), paddling (dragonboat: mostly spring and summer, although we do practice year-round) and climbing (anytime i'm not doing the previous two). I may throw in a little hockey, once my leg heals enough. The last time I played hockey, the result was an ankle sprain and a fractured fibula! But that's no reason to give it up for good.
snowboarding
I snowboarded for the first time in winter 2002-03. This happened in the northeast US, so I learned mostly in the ice and wind of Killington, sometimes making it up to Sunday River and Jay Peak. I now live in Los Angeles, where the nearby peaks are less ice and wind and more slush and sun: Snow Summit, Bear and Moutain High. And when I'm lucky, it's Mammoth. =D
paddling
My buddy Emily got me to try this out in July 2007. Our team is the Space Dragons, and they are my second family. My first tournament was in Tempe, March 2008.
climbing
This is the sport I've kept at the longest, but I've been the least disciplined about it, sometimes going for months on end without it. The first time I ever climbed was in Paris, on the campus of l'Ecole Polytechnique, actually! I was there in the spring of 2003 for a semester abroad, and got to try out climbing (l'escalade, ou grimper) as my sports activity. I'm probably extremely lucky that my first outdoors climbing experience was in Fontainebleu, but I hadn't progressed enough to know that. Now, 6 years later, I might be able to appreciate the climbs there, but I haven't really made it past V2.
I recently purchased "Training for Climbing" by Eric Horst (recommended by Javier), and so far it's already surprised me that my weakness seems to be my physical ability, not my mental and psychological preparedness. So, a little more training in and out of the gym, and then perhaps I'll be able to take on Fontainebleu!
This blog will be mainly about my work-aside passions: snowboarding (winter), paddling (dragonboat: mostly spring and summer, although we do practice year-round) and climbing (anytime i'm not doing the previous two). I may throw in a little hockey, once my leg heals enough. The last time I played hockey, the result was an ankle sprain and a fractured fibula! But that's no reason to give it up for good.
snowboarding
I snowboarded for the first time in winter 2002-03. This happened in the northeast US, so I learned mostly in the ice and wind of Killington, sometimes making it up to Sunday River and Jay Peak. I now live in Los Angeles, where the nearby peaks are less ice and wind and more slush and sun: Snow Summit, Bear and Moutain High. And when I'm lucky, it's Mammoth. =D
paddling
My buddy Emily got me to try this out in July 2007. Our team is the Space Dragons, and they are my second family. My first tournament was in Tempe, March 2008.
climbing
This is the sport I've kept at the longest, but I've been the least disciplined about it, sometimes going for months on end without it. The first time I ever climbed was in Paris, on the campus of l'Ecole Polytechnique, actually! I was there in the spring of 2003 for a semester abroad, and got to try out climbing (l'escalade, ou grimper) as my sports activity. I'm probably extremely lucky that my first outdoors climbing experience was in Fontainebleu, but I hadn't progressed enough to know that. Now, 6 years later, I might be able to appreciate the climbs there, but I haven't really made it past V2.
I recently purchased "Training for Climbing" by Eric Horst (recommended by Javier), and so far it's already surprised me that my weakness seems to be my physical ability, not my mental and psychological preparedness. So, a little more training in and out of the gym, and then perhaps I'll be able to take on Fontainebleu!
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