Friday glee goes for a little walk

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: 12 Steps: experimental rock climbing with Johnny Dawes

Comments

[emperor]

That's very silly :)

I went climbing for the first time in weeks this week, which was fun. But I need some way to not lose what little stamina I have in my arms when not climbing :-/

[wpadmirer]

I fear this myself with the months now that I haven't been able to climb. (And no end in sight. I haven't heard a word from the gym about re-opening since late February.)

My (hopeful) solution has been doing upper body exercises. I have a friend who swears by planking for keeping her body and arms in shape.

[twospots]

I really like watching the German bouldering team training videos--I think there are 4 long ones and one short one? They are great for ideas of interesting ways to crosstrain. (And then, of course, you fall down the youtube rabbithole of climbing videos.)

This also got posted to another forum I'm in: https://www.facebook.com/thelaurenabrahamfanpage/videos/1152359758128805/

Also I have never tried it but the rice bucket training thing for hands/forearms: http://www.dpmclimbing.com/articles/view/way-iron-fist

[twospots]

Sooo I did something super weird to my ankle on a lead fall earlier this week (mild enough that I kept belaying my partner for a while, then bad enough that I went to emerg to get xrays the next morning & spent the day on crutches, and now two days later again mild enough that I'm walking fine with only a slight limp.)

But! Because I am ridiculous I went to the gym right after I left the hospital, to hang out w my beginner friend... and ended up climbing one-legged. I have never been so proud of finishing a 5.7. :)

(Also my favourite lead partner is once again available to climb with.)

[wpadmirer]

YAY! for successfully doing a one-legged 5.7! Also very happy for you about your partner.

[twospots]

[twospots]

Oh hey you can even see the 5.7 I did. I didn't notice that before. :)

[rydra_wong]

Oh, cool! Also, yay that your ankle's recovered so fast.

Also, I'm starting to feel that we need some sort of comm competition for best climbs done minus at least one limb (limb of choice for those not currently injured, bonus points for anyone who wants to do the full Dawes and eliminate multiple limbs ...).

[twospots]

Hah! Yes.

And yeah, I'm SO glad that it's recovering so well. I kind of... wonder if something was out of place and then popped back in, due to the 12h-of-excruciating-pain in the middle of what has otherwise been a fairly ordinary twisted ankle? On the plus side I have an appt this week w orthosomething or other, so they may be able to shed more light.

(I also confess to being sliiiightly disappointed that I don't get to perfect my one-legged climbing technique.)

[wpadmirer]

Cool!