Press to HS summer battle part #1

[@mu]

/* Challenge log */

Persian  0 1 1 0 0 1 1 | 4/7
Coffee   1 1 1 2 3 0 1 | 9/7
Bed      1 0 1 1 _ _ 0 | 3/5
Practice 1 1 _ 1 _ 1 1 | 5/5

Persian  0 0 1 1 0 1 1 | 4/7
Coffee   2 2 2 2 2 0 0 | 10/7
Bed      0 0 1 0 _ _ 1 | 2/5
Practice 1 1 _ _ 1 0 1 | 4/5

Persian  1 0 1 1 0 0 1 | 4/7
Coffee   1 0 2 2 2 0 0 | 7/7
Bed      0 1 1 1 _ _ 1 | 4/5
Practice 0 1 1 _ _ 1 1 | 4/5

Persian  1 1 1 0 0 1 1 | 5/7
Coffee   1 2 2 2 1 1 0 | 9/7
Bed      0 0 1 1 _ _ 1 | 3/5
Practice 1 1 _ _ 1 1 1 | 5/5

Persian  1 0 1 0 1 0 1 | 4/7
Coffee   2 1 1 2 2 1 0 | 9/7
Bed      1 0 1 1 _ _ 0 | 3/5
Practice 1 1 _ 1 _ 1 0 | 4/5

Challenge is over!

 

It was a hard one.

 

I haven't made much progress on coffee. That's a fail.

 

I do manage to get enough sleep despite not exactly making the 10pm deadline and drinking coffee in the afternoon sometimes. Persian could be much better... Still I am doing some reading. I'm in the last story of my Shahnameh book. I'll give myself a pass on both but yeah could do better.

 

Part of the reason for limited Persian reading is that I also read a book in French this month, and not a small read, about 700 pages, a very interesting sci-fi story about morphing and untraceable creatures in a dystopian Pig Data future. It's not translated into English yet as far as I know but here is the Wikipedia's author page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Damasio. I'll probably start reading his earlier works as well.

 

Practice is ok except for back-bends. I have tried them on different days and yep the issue is not the day but getting started with that session. Typically last week, I postponed them until Sunday morning, and then Sunday evening. We started Chernobyl and ended up watching the whole series. I killed my 10pm bed deadline and back-bends were skipped...

 

Everything else, including hips, some legs, some pull, HS and press to HS are ok. I'm happy with HS press progress as slow as it is, it's coming along.

Then there was this bike accident that prevented me from doing elbow levers and crows, and most kinds of arm bending work. I should get back to it slowly the coming month.

My leg strength has improved a fair amount with all this biking (per week it adds up to to 2.5/3 hours, it's a quite significant step up).

 

So next challenge... I'll probably work on the same items. If I'm not too lazy, I'll try to come up with some strategies...erm

 

[Mad Hatter]

Well if the coffee doesn't affect your sleep too much or your handstand then maybe it doesn't matter?

 

3 hours ago, @mu said:

Challenge is over!

 

It was a hard one.

That's why it's called a challenge.  

[KB Girl]

It's very cool and inspiring to see your progress on press to HS. 

A little bit funny actually- after the big move and looking for work you'd kind of expect an easier / quieter challenge, but noooo- let's just throw in an accident  

 

3 hours ago, @mu said:

a very interesting sci-fi story about morphing and untraceable creatures in a dystopian Pig Data future.

Sounds interesting

 

[raptron]

9 hours ago, @mu said:

I do manage to get enough sleep despite not exactly making the 10pm deadline and drinking coffee in the afternoon sometimes. Persian could be much better... Still I am doing some reading. I'm in the last story of my Shahnameh book. I'll give myself a pass on both but yeah could do better.

 

Part of the reason for limited Persian reading is that I also read a book in French this month, and not a small read, about 700 pages, a very interesting sci-fi story about morphing and untraceable creatures in a dystopian Pig Data future. It's not translated into English yet as far as I know but here is the Wikipedia's author page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Damasio. I'll probably start reading his earlier works as well.

It took me a minute to parse "pig data."

 

9 hours ago, @mu said:

Practice is ok except for back-bends. I have tried them on different days and yep the issue is not the day but getting started with that session. Typically last week, I postponed them until Sunday morning, and then Sunday evening. We started Chernobyl and ended up watching the whole series. I killed my 10pm bed deadline and back-bends were skipped...

 

Everything else, including hips, some legs, some pull, HS and press to HS are ok. I'm happy with HS press progress as slow as it is, it's coming along.

Then there was this bike accident that prevented me from doing elbow levers and crows, and most kinds of arm bending work. I should get back to it slowly the coming month.

My leg strength has improved a fair amount with all this biking (per week it adds up to to 2.5/3 hours, it's a quite significant step up).

ALL THE LEG GAINS! 

 

9 hours ago, @mu said:

So next challenge... I'll probably work on the same items. If I'm not too lazy, I'll try to come up with some strategies...erm

YAH.

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1 hour ago, raptron said:

It took me a minute to parse "pig data."

 

the book has a lot of puns  / spoonerisms / neologisms... Spinning and twisting words, basically mirroring with language the way of life of those creatures in perpetual metamorphosis. Thinking about it, I'm not sure it will ever get translated. But I quoted Pig Data as is  

 

9 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Well if the coffee doesn't affect your sleep too much or your handstand then maybe it doesn't matter?

 

Yes indeed, however if I don't pay attention, I will probably start drinking a lot more. Coffee is just too easy at work. Tough.

 

8 hours ago, KB Girl said:

A little bit funny actually- after the big move and looking for work you'd kind of expect an easier / quieter challenge, but noooo- let's just throw in an accident

 

Exactly that said, life feels a bit speedy generally speaking, accident or not.