Friday glee is watching the weather

[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.

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.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because I did the little bouldering comp at my favourite wall, and survived accidentally ending up in the finals.

I have un-glee that it aggravated my tweaky tendons and I've been having to take it easy since then, but that will pass.

[wpadmirer]

FINALS! YAY! How very, very cool. Sorry about the aggravated tendons, but YAY! on making to the finals!

[rydra_wong]

It was a fairly small comp to begin with, and there were very few women competitors, so making it through to the finals wasn't really a spectacular achievement -- the bit I'm proud of is surviving the finals without running out of the building screaming. *g*

For reference, here is my post from last summer where I swore I would never, ever want to do the finals of a comp.

[emperor]

Dude, you rock! :-)

[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... :)

[rydra_wong]

There's a little video of the comp here: http://www.vimeo.com/20506742

(I am not doing anything exciting in it, but it gives a nice idea of the atmosphere.)

I defeated a V2 which I was struggling with mostly because I didn't have the nerve rather than for technical whatsit.

W00t! I really like working on that psychological edge sometimes, when you know you're physically capable of the move, you just have to be able to make it with absolute commitment.

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.

Yeah, that can be a very effective strategy. "If I can do it from here ..."