Bouldering Megaday - 10/16

Finally ready for round 2!

400 pts. of bouldering in a day - Harder than I thought!

Knees finally recovered enough from the Everest challenge to move to the next round. Scoring this as V1=1 pt, V2=2 pt, V3=3 pt, .... didn't sound that hard? But once I started to do the math it seemed a little more extreme. If I did V1s only, this would be 400 problems. At say 1 minute per problem, this ends up being 6.7 hours of climbing. Moving it up a notch or two helps with the volume, but the difficulty (and rest required) starts to overwhelm the volume pretty quickly ... I would expect that 40 V10s (not that i'm doing v10 right now) in a day would be pretty radical for even the very best climbers, so I plan on keeping it pretty easy.

Doing this at a gym (West LA) ... I know sort of lame ... but the convenience (and cushy landing) was a big sell.

Started at 8:30 ---- Initially sort of slow (checking all the problems out) only 26 pts in the first hour! .... need to step it up a notch .... let's try upping the grade ... 20 V4's later ... I'm done with V4 for a bit .... let's try some volume .... 52 V2's later .. it's time for lunch .... let's try some really easy volume ... 50 V1's later .... yeah time for a break (252 so far) ... off to work in Chatsworth for a couple of hours .... then back to the gym. Only 3:15 left('till the gym closes) to finish up 148 more points. 70 more V2s and 2 more V4s (just to keep it real in the last hour) and done. With 30 minutes left to go figured out my math was wrong and had to plug in another 10 V2s.

Totals
V1 - 60 X 1 = 60
V2 - 126 X 2 = 252
V4 - 22 = 88
208 problems for 400 pts.
8.5 hours of climbing
2.45 minutes/problem
24.5 problems/hour
~2000 feet of total climbing

The knees started to act up towards the end ... 208 problems up also means 208 X 6ft drops down. Skin SO does not feel loved. Last couple of hours were just dragging my ass up every time ... most of the day had the latest public enemy CD running through my head:

YOU DON'T STAND FOR SOMETHING
YOU FALL FOR ANYTHING
HARDER THAN YOU THINK
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING