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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.

To enhance this week's glee: Dave MacLeod and Tim Emmett go sea-cliff climbing at Pembroke.

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.

Date: 2011-03-04 05:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
FINALS! YAY! How very, very cool. Sorry about the aggravated tendons, but YAY! on making to the finals!

Date: 2011-03-04 10:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
Dude, you rock! :-)

Date: 2011-03-05 12:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] juliet
Oh wow! I'm really sorry that I missed that; but on the other hand it was for a good reason (I spent that day FINISHING THE DAMN BOOK DAMMIT, which was getting moderately urgent). Another time...

I have glee because I went climbing twice, and I defeated a V2 which I was struggling with mostly because I didn't have the nerve rather than for technical whatsit. (The pink one on the slab with the bridging.) It was especially pleasing because of *how* I defeated it; I spent about 5 min up there trying a similar move but with my feet on slightly different (easier) holds, to convince myself that I could do it. Still had to count myself in to get through it :) (and then struggled with it *again* on Friday -- it still just feels hard! will keep going...)

Also I solved another V2 (green one on the near corner of the overhang wall in the front) with a bit of hanging around up there & trying things.

Could not, however, get anywhere *near* the allegedly V2 routes in the new front room which I believe were set for the competition... :)

Date: 2011-03-04 05:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
My glee this week is something that happened last night. I belayed for a group of young Islamic women. The gym was closed completely to men. It was all women belayers, and the women were young - high school/college age. They were great. They had a blast and some of them climbed very well. They are not allowed to climb with men, but many of them want to climb regularly.

So today I'm meeting with the gym manager and a woman shift manager to see if we can't figure out a time to set for them to climb each week when it will be women only!

Date: 2011-03-04 10:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
That vid is fun, but it didn't really give me any sense that they were doing hard climbing.

For the first time in a while, I have climbing glee; after the best part of a month with no climbing, I've been twice this week. Saturday was a bit meh - it was good to be climbing again, but I wasn't really on form (not surprisingly!). We did do some falling practice, though, which I think is valuable. Wednesday, though, was awesome. I don't know why, but I was just really on song. I lead two routes that have defeated me before (OK, only 5 and 5+, but), blasted up a 6a I'd not tried before such that my belayer commented "I liked how a couple of times you just disdained the handholds". Then, I actually tried the competition wall. It's been a thing of fear for me since I've been climbing here - nothing easier than 6a, and it's all overhanging, and goes higher than any other walls. I got 7 clips up one route before taking a big fall. Which is also awesome, because it meant I was climbing until I really couldn't go any further, rather than just panicing because I was above the last clip, which is often a problem I have on leads. Maybe I'm getting over my leading fear finally!

Err, sorry, babble. Wednesday's climbing just felt right.

Date: 2011-03-05 08:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
I don't collect vid bookmarks (mostly because I have to go to a secondary computer to get a flash player), but one of the things I really liked about 5 Islands 5 Climbs is that they managed to give you an idea of quite how tough some of the climbing was (particularly on the roof where bits kept falling off!).

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