Training by
Tyson — Aug 03, 2007 at 05:56 am
Had a great day training today (well yesterday, man it’s late). Have found an incredibly difficult (but scalable) floor-is-lava type challenge that covers quite a distance at UW. It’s mainly a lot of balance challenges with difficult precisions and really draining climbing traversals thrown in.
Trying to walk on a railing for a fair distance after your whole body is shaking from a really difficult climb is really fun! I can’t wait for the day where I can take this whole line without slipping or falling, it’s an amazing challenge.
The route (so far) goes down the bike racks south of Red Square, across the bollards to the long railings. Precision across to avoid the tree, balance all the down, precision back, precision to the smaller railing (haven’t tried this one yet). Traverse across the arch to the inside of the hallway, out through the window, across the next arch (really hard), up onto the curved railing, precision to handrail (it works using one foot, but it’s shaky), precision onto the next railing (not perpendicular, haven’t tried yet), walk down, precision across. Leap to bench (or follow bark to bollard challenge), run through the grass, leap over the concrete, cat leap to the bicycle containers, get to the railing, quadrupedal it’s length avoiding foliage, leap to parking stop, then to the bark, then to the railings, more precisions and walks down (try some duck walks), get to the concrete, standing jump the gap (I one-foot it). Follow the fence around, traverse the side of the building, walk the rail, jump to the concrete edge, standing cat, vault over, and jog to the slanted wall (phew!).
From there I’m not sure where to go but you could follow the white lines wherever, or if you weren’t destroyed yet you could traverse in cat position down the wall, do the cat to cat, and traverse as far as you can to the road. 
Oh and I think ending each session with some light barefoot training and stretching is really helpful, thanks for the idea Nathan!
Small classes can get that way easily I think. The next day I got pulled into a brutal Crossfit workout, then Rafe came back from Europe and shared what he had learned about the necessities of conditioning. We started with 10 minutes straight of various QM work, then went to precision training, courses, and some really interesting conditioning stuff at the end. 
