went to manchester for the weekend thinking I would be doing some casul training on sat and helping out with the one mile monkey crawl but instead it turned in to my most intense training session to date. I loved every second of it I really learnt about what i can do and how far my body can really go when it needs to.
We spent the day doing alot of strength training at the busieness school whitch was great we did lots of new and challengeing strength rountines, on the bikelocks courtesey of Dave from sheffield whitch was great I really got to know the guy and his views on what parkour are and I learnt so much of him in terms of strength training and my parkour alone. By the afternoon we was just doing parkour movements and alot of rail work and I finally nailed this anoying 180cat, at last thanks to scott showing me how I could improve on my current technique I also manged to get this monkey to cat whitch always got at my mind after watching my freind mark bail on it, in the end I just calmed my mind and instead of thinking I felt and bang i had done it after this I thought to myself I can monkey to crain this and bang ran at it I felt my hands touch the cold metal at the same time i felt my left foot comeing up to hit it but i hit the edge and fell back haha. But this onley made me try harder 2nd time i fell but like they say 3rd times the charm I managed to get it and very easy aswell am looking at a monkey procsion next time :).
We basecily spent the rest of the day climbinground before heading back to scotts flat for a two hour break and then going back out at 11 at night for a nice 1mile run, in the rain follwed by some prescion training on to some wet rocks this I thought was impossible until scott did it and he shown me how to land corectlly on wetsurfaces I must say this was the most challengeing thing I had ever done mentally after a few jumps and foot work on the wet green rocks I really found a new confidence in my abiltys and could do it like I was on dry rocks after this we did more challengeing mental excersises thanks scott for teaching me what my body can do and that rain is just another obstacle to overcome:).
The next day it was time for the 1mile crawl I was already dead after training 11hours with onley a 2hour break and onley 7hours sleep but I onely rose to the challenge we all stayed togeather as we did it. My legs where on fire the first 100meters the guys had been training for this I hadent but still I pushed on and on I was on my hands and knees by 150meters and was about to just stop when i seen ste strugling to keep going and then somethink awokein me, I cant really describe the feeling but I got back up and kept going and going my body had just lost the pain it was unreal I even slowed down to keep up with ste and cheer him on let me tell you its so much harder and intense when you slow down doing the monkey crawl, but I didnt care alls I cared about was pushing my freind ste onwards and thinking about all those people we where helping.
We finshed the mile in an hour and 15minutes I was so happy for the group and myself I descoverd strength when I thought I had non. Am going to wrap it up here by saying thanks to scott for teaching me so much about what we are really capable of and helping me find stregnth I didnt know I had and thanks to everyone for helping push me on and just an overall great acheviment everyone should be proud next year its 1mile with no rests or 3miles wooo i cant wait.
