Friday glee and Angie Payne
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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 a new climbing wall is opening near your house 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.
To enhance this week's glee: Angie Payne talks about recovering from injury and sends a V12.
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.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that a new climbing wall is opening near your house 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.
To enhance this week's glee: Angie Payne talks about recovering from injury and sends a V12.
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.
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Date: 2011-01-14 11:29 am (UTC)It's only my second V5 ever, and my first since my epic hospitalization in 2009.
Like the previous one, it's kind of a statistical outlier -- a problem that happened to play to all my strengths. But it means a lot to get it, and it was a gorgeous problem.
And I'm knocking down more and more V4s, including some that really aren't my style (overhanging power problems).
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Date: 2011-01-14 11:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 11:59 am (UTC)My glee today is that I on-sighted a V2 -- I have done this before, but I've been struggling with several of the new V2s on this lot of setting, so it was very pleasing to get up this one. (Blue, in the front corner of the left back area :) it involves a lot of bridging, which I like doing.)
Earlier I pulled a shoulder muscle slightly trying to climb one of the V2s on the overhang in the new part, but NEVER MIND.
Also: went climbing twice, which is always a good thing.
Also also: looking forward to Leah Crane's drop-in women's session on Monday! Whee!
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Date: 2011-01-14 12:19 pm (UTC)The one that starts on the wave wall and then goes up and left and ends on the diamond-shaped volume on the vertical wall -- it's kind of invisible unless you spot the tags (or Yann explains where it is), because it consists of one orange foothold and then it's entirely volumes.
And it's all hip flexibility and weird contortionist hand-foot matching and balance stuff, so utterly my cup of tea.
Yay onsighting! And I'll see you on Monday!
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Date: 2011-01-14 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-15 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-15 06:36 pm (UTC)(There are some route-length problems on the extended roof at the wall where I climb, and they kill me.)