Topic: Timothy Chen Allen's training log

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster playground
Duration: 40 minutes

I did a double helping of QM, then 30 rolls, then I did a whole lot of precisions preparing to try to jump over a bench to a precision landing on a short wall.  I did some vaults after that, then some conditioning: standing on my hands for 60 seconds (feet on the wall-- my handstand still isn't good), then 50 pushups.  Which were excecptionally hard at that point.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster playground
Duration: 30 minutes

QM, then rail QM, then right back to trying to precision jump over that bench onto that planter.  I nailed it.  It was so easy that I wondered what the big deal was yesterday.

After that I did a bunch of lazy vaults and then some kongs to a four foot drop, then found a really great place to try kongs in front of the hotel next door.  I partial-konged: got my feet up on the obstacle (a stone block with a nice four foot drop off the back end).  Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to kong the whole thing.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster Playground
Duration: 30 minutes

This seemed very short.  I just did a QM Box (Straight, Left, Back, Right), then rail QMs for a while, then precision jumps over a bench.  Really just maintenance, but I really wanted to try a lot of Rail QM this week.

UPDATE: I did about another 30 minutes of work on my Elite Rings in the afternoon.  Best way to wring the last ounce of strength out of my arms.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Gateway Park
Duration: 2.5 hours

I ran four miles from work to get to the Tuesday Night Jam.  It was good, really normal: QMs, a three run wall series, kongs, then vaults.  Just a good solid jam.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster Playground
Duration: 30 minutes

Real simple: A QM Box, 10 muscle-ups, attempts at a tic-tac to cat hang until I got it a few times, precision jumps over a bench onto the side of a planter, then rail QM.

Then the school janitors started looking at me worriedly.  I'm concerned that my workout place might become prohibited now.

[Josh Wright]

Then the school janitors started looking at me worriedly.  I'm concerned that my workout place might become prohibited now.

Oh man! I hope that does not happen! Hopefully you can explain everything to him in a polite manner and hand him a brochure or something!

Good luck man, and happy training!

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Then the school janitors started looking at me worriedly.  I'm concerned that my workout place might become prohibited now.

Oh man! I hope that does not happen! Hopefully you can explain everything to him in a polite manner and hand him a brochure or something!

Good luck man, and happy training!

Thanks, Josh.  I'll keep you all posted.  This might not actually be a problem, as my kid goes to school here and I did a big fund-raising event for the school last year (money is a pretty good motivator!)  If it goes south I'll just have to get more creative about places to work out.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster playground
Duration: 40 minutes

Looks like I didn't get kicked out of the playground!  Nothing came of the janitor watching me train; maybe he just wanted to know what I was doing.

Today's workout was dirt simple: QM, Rail QM, then a bunch of lazy and kong vaults.  I'm trying to build up the courage to do a kong vault on this one large chunk of marble that has a five foot drop off the back side.  I can kong a surface this large (it's about three feet long), and I can make the drop no problem.  But I have trouble doing both.  Maybe tomorrow...

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Gateway Park, Rosslyn, VA
Duration: 2 hours

Regular Tuesday night DC Metro Parkour jam.  I started off with a four mile run to get to the jam, and we mostly did conditioning.  A good jam, mostly social, worked on some stuff I hadn't done much of, like handstands.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster Playground
Duration: 20 minutes

I did just one thing in this session, but it was ridiculously hard!  I did a Quadrupedal Motion Box for 16 minutes.  In other words, I went to a large field, did straight QM to cross it, then went left on the field doing side QM, then back across the field doing backward QM, then back right on the field doing side QM.  I did the entire field four times in 16 minutes.

This was very difficult.  I plan on starting doing this once a week and trying to build up to more time.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

30 minutes in Oyster Playground, just doing QM and wall shimmies.  I figured out another kind of sideways QM-- really obvious, just alternating arms and legs going sideways.

My knee really is bothering me lately and I thought I'd get away with this.  But of course my knee hurts now.  Sigh, I suppose I'll see the doc next week.  Or probably not, since I know she'll just tell me to Rest Ice Compression Elevate it.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Oyster Playground
Duration: 15 minutes

The doc finally gave me a clean (more or less) bill of health.  I've done a little training every day for the last three days, mainly warming up before going for a run by doing a big QM Box, some precisions, a little rail QM, and some lazy vaults.  This week I'll do some more.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Date: 29 May 2010

Ran ten miles, and jammed at the (B)east Coast Jam.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Ran 3 miles with my dog, then another six for a total of nine miles.

Conditioning:
After, did 15 minutes of Burpees, reverse QMs, and inchworm QMs (plant feet, put hands palms down right in front of toes, then walk the hands out as far as possible until the entire body is straight and supported just by the palms and the toes; hold a count of three, then walk the hands back to the toes).  I maintained my heart rate above 140 the entire 15 minutes.

[Max G]

holy hell that's a good conditioning session! doing inchworms, burpees and qm for that long would leave me sucking crazy wind. nicely done!

[FrostySTL]

Hey Max, you do realize Tim is like 45 years old, right?

Tim! Glad to see you still around and keeping up the good work. I was just talking about you the other day, wondering where you had been. Hadn't seen you in post in quite a while.

[Max G]

Hey Max, you do realize Tim is like 45 years old, right?

haha damn i was hoping he'd be a young 30-something..all the more motivating!

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Lumberton, Texas (here for a family event)

Ran eight miles in ridiculous 93 degree, 93 percent humidity Texas head, then did 10 minutes of burpees, inchworms, reverse QM, and crabwalks.  I was shattered at the end of this!

I had taken some time off from posting my workouts, but had continued to work out.  Mark Toorock talked with me at Beast Coast and encouraged me to start posting my workouts again. Thanks for the kind words!

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Lumberton, Texas
Date: 3 June 2010

1) Ran 1.5 miles in ridiculous Texas heat
2) Stopped and did 15 minutes of conditioning (burpees, backwards QM, inchworms)
3) Ran 1.5 more miles in ridiculous Texas heat

This was really great-- it got me really tired right in the middle of the workout, so finishing the run was like how I feel when I'm finishing a very long race.

[Timothy Chen Allen]

Location: Washington, DC

25.2 miles in 4:10.

Great run.