Friday glee is a quality thing
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disobey_gravityThe 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: this fascinating talk with the one and only Jerry Moffatt on the origin and history of the campus board and the development of climbing training (warning for mention of ridiculous '80s-climbing-style starvation dieting).
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: this fascinating talk with the one and only Jerry Moffatt on the origin and history of the campus board and the development of climbing training (warning for mention of ridiculous '80s-climbing-style starvation dieting).
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Date: 2016-05-27 02:21 pm (UTC)I did go hear a man talk about climbing Everest. He did not summit, but his photos and experience were very interesting to hear about. He has climbed a number of other mountains, and he says he will never try Everest again. It's become too dangerous.
Very interesting.
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Date: 2016-05-27 06:22 pm (UTC)Yeah, my impression is that Everest is now significantly more dangerous just because of the number of people on it; you're going to spend a lot more time stuck at bottlenecks.
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Date: 2016-05-27 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-27 06:11 pm (UTC)The best strategies I've found so far are a) reminding myself that I've had sessions like this before and it doesn't mean I've lost all climbing ability forever, and b) recognizing as early as possible when it's One Of Those Sessions, dropping expectations and taking the pressure off myself -- so, might just try to do lots of easy mileage. Sometimes I then end up doing way better than expected, just because I'm not getting frustrated and aaargh at myself.
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Date: 2016-05-28 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-27 09:01 pm (UTC)And climbed some V1 stuff, after sticking to V0 last week and finding it straightforward. I was climbing V2 and very occasionally V3 Back In The Day, but that was 5 years ago now and my body's changed quite a bit so I am fine with starting over, as it were; but it was nice to have to try slightly harder than the V0s.
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Date: 2016-05-28 02:15 pm (UTC)So you'll be doing V2s and V3s again! I send you good climbing vibes!
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Date: 2016-05-31 11:38 am (UTC)(Foundation falling out of gym sounds deeply alarming! To think that I worry if I find a slightly loose hold ;) )
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