Too many clothes—it’s 5 degrees. Could’ve done with a t-shirt and shorts. Pull-ups will all be without ‘body boosting’ from now on. I’m making this decision even though I believe the US Navy allows momentum boosting even though they say it is not allowed.
I think I’ve written before about my time in the Naval ROTC. Another midshipman was former enlisted man. He had done the actual PFT (physical fitness test) while he was in the Navy. Even though the rules said you were supposed to use body momentum to increase your number of pull-ups, he showed us that he did it with something called a ‘kip’. At times, you are gaining so much momentum that you are not pulling ‘up’ so much as sideways because your body is so high.
There must be a psychological element in pull-ups because at the super-thin bar, I did only 9. Might have been cold hands—didn’t wear the purple fleece gloves. The careful reader might realize that I maintained by goal of 70 repetitions during a run by counting the ‘dips’ as a set of pull-ups. I don’t find those bars as often at pull-ups. Stick man doing a ‘dip’:
Found a good length of straight way in a median on Marshal Rokossovskovo. This is where I did a timed sprint. The baseline is 1:04.90. We’ll see how fast I can make it. The place of the sprint on the map:
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