Friday glee spent two years training in a cellar

[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: the official trailer for the "Wideboyz" movie (offwidth porn! Sheffield cowboys go America!).

Comments

[emperor]

I've seen some bits of their exploits via clips from ukclimbing. That's serious dedication to pain!

I had one of those weeks where there was just a little progress; some 6Bs are now feeling like they might be climbable, rather than completely beyond me. Though I did fall off a lot, again.

[wpadmirer]

Wow, that's impressive. There's nothing like reaching the point that you're conquering new levels of routes. I can occasionally do a 5.9 and it makes me incredibly excited when I do. (grin)

[emperor]

Thanks! Lest you think I'm hard-core or anything, this is a french 6B on top-rope. The hardest I've lead outside is (English Trad) HS, which Wikipedia tells me is about 5.6 :)

[wpadmirer]

Level is not important, what is important is that you're doing something new and cool! I remember the first time I ever got to the top of a 5.5. It took me about a month of climbing and struggling and I was SO thrilled I cheered myself.

[emperor]

Oh, yes, definitely. One of the things I like about going climbing is that the people I climb with will always cheer each other up things, even if that route would be easy for some of them.

[wpadmirer]

Yep. Climbers are generally great people about enjoying the success of others.

[juliet]

I climbed! For the first time in a few weeks.

And then I broke my toe (not in any way climbing-related), so I guess it'll be a few more weeks before I'm back :(

[rydra_wong]

Oh noez!

By way of consolation/inspiration: http://vimeo.com/42893621 (according to his blog, his broken toe was the result of an "epic late night door incident.")

[juliet]

I have seen that before & it is fab :) Big toe is a right sod, worse than little toe (which is what I did in this time).

I am choosing to believe that picking the baby up every 5 min is a sufficient upper-body workout :) Starting to wonder if I can go back early & kind of climb with 1.5 feet like I did with 1.5 hands when I broke my thumb. The trouble is the landing, though, I think. (Like with cycling; I can still *ride*, but putting my foot down, not so much.)