This week did not go as well as I had hoped it was going to go. We will get into the specifics later but lets jump right into it.

Sunday (2/14) was Apocalypse training. It’s not actual training for the apocalypse but basically, my friend and I are too lazy to go all the way home after class to change into actual workout clothing so we just go to the gym in jeans and skate shoes to do our training with the mindset that in the apocalypse, you won’t have time to change clothes. That’s besides the point though. We started with some good ole high intensity interval training. The whole time, we were complaining about how much it sucked but at the same time, wanted to add more of it to our program. After that was abs and legs. Nothing to special to report but it was pretty difficult and we were both sore the next day.

Monday (2/15) was a rest day.

Tuesday (2/16) is where all things went wrong. Tuesday is the first of the 2 hard training days. We took our time to warm up and prepare for the intense climbing we were about to do. There were a lot of people in the gym and the hang board was roped off because someone was setting a route near it so we couldn’t do burnouts until he was done. We decided to start with 4sec lockoffs. Basically we picked out a handful of problems to climb that are moderate/hard for us, and hover our hand above the next hold for 4 seconds before grabbing it. On my third one, I was climbing a slightly overhanging crimp route that I had set and that was fairly easy for me. On one of the holds, while I was locking off, I heard a small tearing noise and immediately grabbed the next hold. My finger didn’t hurt right away but I knew something was wrong. Throughout the rest of the day, I climbed easy stuff, mainly on vertical walls and slowly put more weight on it to see how much it would take to get it to hurt so I could judge the severity of the injury. I was confused as I did not hear a pop and it hurts on the top of my middle knuckle of my middle finger, not where a tendon would be. I don’t know much about tendon injuries but I don’t think they’re supposed to hurt on top of your knuckle. Anyway, I was a disappointed that I couldn’t finish my workout.

Wednesday (2/17) was supposed to be a projecting day but because of Tuesday’s fiasco, it wasn’t. However, I did climb. Wednesday was our setting day so we all had to fore run the routes. I didn’t climb that hard but I could tell it was slight better than it was on Tuesday. So that’s good I guess.

Thursday (2/18) was again supposed to be a hard training day but I just stayed home and played some video games.

Friday (2/19) was a rest day and I am glad to say that I did indeed, rest.

Saturday (2/20) was also a rest day but my finger was feeling a lot better so my friends and I got on some ropes. I don’t normally rope climb but I want to get into it again so we are going to start rope climbing on Saturdays. The finger was feeling alright. It definitely got a little weaker as I kept climbing but I had it all taped up so it felt fine. I flashed a 5.12 with it so it definitely is functional, just not comfortable.

So that’s this week’s update. I’m a little bummed about my finger and that I had to skip a whole week of training but I’m going to ease back into it and see how it feels. I’m confident it’s not a serious tendon injury, but I just don’t know what it is. If anyone knows, you should totally let me know, because I want to know what it is also.