Finally managed to get the cycle-swim-cycle thing going today. Not that it’s a long ride, but it’s uphill all the way there (with a great coast on the way down unless the wind is blowing the wrong way).
The pool wasn’t too busy today, but it definitely still pays to get there when it opens – 10.30am and not a second earlier! Unfortunately, the outdoor pool in its 50m glory will be closed from 6 September. Even though it’s still hot enough to swim outside, the outdoor pool is only open from mid-June until the beginning of September, then it’s back into the 25m indoor pool…sigh…
The yoga is improving again, although my left knee was behaving a bit oddly during the B salutes, so I only ended up doing 3 instead of 5, but I did get through all the standing poses though. I’d better stick with just the standing poses for a few more sessions as I’m having more trouble with them than I thought I would, but the stiffness does mean I can try to work more on my alignment than getting deeper into the poses at the moment, so it’s not too bad really.
On the weekend Andrew and I did the via ferrata de la berche. It was fun, but hot (especially when wearing the long sleeve icebreaker), and the rope in the safety gear kept getting in the way. The overhangs were a little nasty, they were tiring, but it was more to do with the dangling uncomfortably from one arm (nice bruises) and trying to grab the errant ‘biners with the other to clip around the bolt onto the next stretch of cable. We’re trying a more difficult one at Sisteron some time in the near future. That one has more overhangs!
