Glee! (Not the TV show.)

[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 a good time; 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. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.

ETA: In today's climbing news:

Goats: more hardcore than you

Comments

[tevere]

My husband and I used to do this thing where we'd go to the gym and just head straight to the routes that we couldn't finish from the week before. But this tended to (a) tire us out very fast, and (b) increase the chance of sprained whatevers due to lack of warmup. And then we noticed that the experienced people at the gym generally started on the very easy routes as a warmup and worked their way around to the hard routes. So this week we tried that, and it worked a treat! We didn't tire out on the easy routes (as I'd thought), we climbed for much longer overall, and I still finished two routes that I'd had trouble on last week. Success!

[rydra_wong]

W00t! And yeah, that's such a good thing to learn. I've found that I need to spend the first 15 minutes of a session on warming up that way, working my way up from the easiest problems to my current level. Then I'm allowed to hit my projects. It's really helpful for protecting your finger tendons, too.