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Ramping up the training
So for the past month I have been at 4-5hrs of cardio. I do 1hr long run and a 5k interval session, going hard, per week. Then, most of the time is spent going up a 20 floor building with 12kg pack and taking the elevator down followed by some cycling. This needs to build to around 7hrs a week by May. Yesterday I did around 700m vert in an hour, today I am aiming for at least 400m. Though during the night I had very bad cramps. Every time I get them, I am scared for the kidney. Because leading up to my kidney failure cramps were a painful constant.
I am also climbing more and more outdoors now. There I really want to be able to onsight (sport) a couple of 6bs before May 15th. I also want to comfortably trad 5a/5b on limestone. Limestone is a traitorous mistress, gear that you would be bomber on any other rock can and will pull. My friends partner took a ground fall when two of his cams popped. You need deep placements and ideally nuts work best. Overall, I think this would put me in a good place to start the Climb Against Time.
Finding time for everything is a huge issue. So during the days there is obviously the daily lab stuff. On the weekends and nights there is the promotional stuff, improvements to the website, as well as attracting participants for their own challenge. I have to do these otherwise you are just 'Another fucker climbing' as per a mountain guide I met last September. Then there is finding the partners for the climbs I will be doing, which given the volume, is a bit of an ordeal of its own. All of this does strain my relationship with my wife, the time we can spend together is reduced by quiet a bit. Feeling a bit drawn.
Speaking of promotion the social media business is weird. I have now had some experience with Instagram and YouTube. I hugely favor Youtube. You need to spend a lot more effort, your reach is smaller, but you can actually post long-form content, saying somewhat meaningful things or actually being able to tell a story. And I also feel like with investment in to quality you can really take off. There are a crap tonne of accounts on instagram and the competition is fierce because the effort is less. On Instagram 3 second retention is like 30%. You can't really tell a story there, its more like, hey look at this thing real quick! Then bam on to the next thing. If I look at my own viewing habbits this all makes quiet a lot of sense. I think taking this brief foray in to the content creation world has made me a tiny bit more conscious of how I engage with it also.
What are you training for, the Hock?
Training for a charity event I am organising, basically the prime aim is to help change the culture around dialysis. I think there are a lot of misconceptions that have made us converge on solution that is by far sub-optimal.
I will do 41 Alpine peaks above 4000m through hard routes. So it requires a whole season of just climbing and not dying (o1 calculated about 20 millimorts!, will have to check but sounds reasonable given my near misses).
Not bad if true! I know plenty of people who would cringe and utterly refuse to engage with those odds.
To add reference, my life expectancy on dialysis would be like 15 years. So the expected life-years for me doing this now (were I 100% healthy) is still fair bit longer than were I to go back to dialysis. I'll take the odds.
I'm not really up to date on your life story. I vaguely recall a mottizen telling of his dialysis struggles a few years ago, was that you? Or are you doing this out of altruism?
Pure self interest, yes that was me
Not sure if joking. Please clarify.
The guy on dialysis was me, so I am doing this of course out of self-interest but also because I think this is a fairly atypical disease that doesn't get the spotlight much.
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