Friday glee is a national treasure

[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: Steve Mac introduces innocent Spaniard Pablo Martin Mayoral to the joys of North Wales slate.

Comments

[ivy]

Finally my turn for "Alone on the Wall" from the library, and after last week I have a new appreciation for it, heh.

[wpadmirer]

I'm planning to go climbing on Monday. That way I will have recovered from boxing this week, and not yet boxed next week!

[rydra_wong]

Excellent pacing!

[emperor]

This week I actually got up some of last week's new routes :-)

[hermionesviolin]

I got to climb twice this week.

Tuesday:

The first two climbs I did were 10s I've been doing the last few weeks (technically, a 5.10 and a 5.10-), and this time both of them felt easy and I was like, "I guess I'm a person who thinks 5.10s are easy now?" Only SOME 5.10s, to be clear (I definitely struggled on some later climbs), but still, I am now a person who has "easy" 5.10s.

I climbed 8 walls -- all of them 10s of some degree. My last one of the night I rainbowed a bunch (I was tired and didn't have the power I needed -- and also it has some objectively hard stuff), but I did make it up 8 walls (one of them a tall wall).

And I made it up one wall that my belay partner noped out of, which is always a great feeling since she's generally a better climber than I am :) She was just tired, but still.

As I was finishing one climb, the woman finishing the climb next to me said, "Nicely done," and then, "I love your ["Lord, Grant Me The Confidence Of A Mediocre White Man"] shirt. I think I tell you that every time. It's so accurate." :D

Friday:

I climbed harder stuff and was more tired, but I actually climbed 6 walls (again, all 10s of some degree), which is more than I had realized until I went back and counted. And even if I hadn't climbed that many, I felt good about pushing myself to climb harder stuff (though my last couple were easier ones as I was definitely tiring).