post of glee

[sixbeforelunch]

Post your gleeful climbing-related experiences here.

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[miss_s_b]

I beat my daddy up the 6a overhang on Tuesday.

[rydra_wong]

\o/

I struggle so much with overhangs *g*.

[miss_s_b]

I have forearms like Sly Stallone, due to a combination of the work I do and climbing and karate being my major hobbies, but my Dad is an ex rugby player and very muscular, so I always feel like it's a special acheivement if I do better than him at something physical.

[rydra_wong]

*envies your forearms*

That's awesome.

[miss_s_b]

It's easy to get them. Three hours a week karate, three hours a week climbing, and 36 hours a week throwing beer barrels about and pulling on handpull beer pumps ;)

[rydra_wong]

*takes notes*

I have no beer barrels at home, but I do have a kettlebell, so I'll have to see if I can make do *g*.

[miss_s_b]

I'm not sure how much a 9 gallon barrel weighs, but I suspect it's a fair bit. There's 72 pints of liquid, plus the actual weight of the barrel itself, which tends to be stainless steel...

[rydra_wong]

Wikipedia saith that the imperial gallon is based on the volume of 10lb of distilled water. I'm guessing beer weighs more than water, so that's more than 90lb/40kg before you even get to the weight of the barrel itself ...

*continues to be awed*

[rydra_wong]

I kept working on re-acquiring my strength and my callouses. And I also managed to send a slabby problem with holds so tiny (and so few) that I'd been back for weeks before I noticed it was actually there.

It had lost its grade tag, but one of the regular route-setters estimated it at around a V5.

I'm figuring he may have been generous because he knows I've been in hospital for ages, but it was at least a V4, I think. And just my cup of tea, all balance and terror *g*.

[juliet]

No climbing for me this week (due to the GP having BURNT A HOLE IN MY FOOT earlier in the week. At my request, obviously, but it still hurts :( ). But I went up to the Castle last Sunday & did fun stuff, despite getting my arse handed to me by a bafflingly difficult 4C. (I can normally do 4C! We concluded in the end that the move in question required both strength (which my partner has more of than me) & technique (which I have more of than him), and thus neither of us could quite manage it, although I came close.

I did do some good footwork-training stuff (climbing a 4B no-holds-for-feet), which pleased me.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ for footwork-training!

And I hope your foot recovers speedily (I probably shouldn't ask why you had a hole burnt in it, right?).

If you get completely desperate from climbing-deprivation, you could always do what I did when I sprained my ankle, namely go bouldering and do nothing except sit-starts -- not the rest of the problem, just the start. It was somewhere between entertaining and frustrating, but I gained a lot of strength fast.

[juliet]

Verruca that wouldn't go away & started getting actively painful when I put weight on it. According to my GP, the *red-hot iron wire* is the "conservative" treatment for this. (It was fascinating; there was *smoke* coming out of my foot! I did get a local first :) ). So anyway, it hurts more now but hopefully this is a temporary situation!

I shall bear the sit-starts-only advice in mind if it's not sufficiently better by next week to soldier on through -- thanks!

[rydra_wong]

*red-hot iron wire* is the "conservative" treatment for this. (It was fascinating; there was *smoke* coming out of my foot!

That's really rather marvellous, in a sort of retro medieval way.

[rydra_wong]

Sekrit Message: okay to suggest disobey_gravity for the Three Weeks of Dreamwidth spotlight?

(I am thinking about the mod thing. Honestly.)

[sixbeforelunch]

Most certainly. :)

[auntysarah]

I seem to have got my leading nerve back. I led 2 6b routes at the gym yesterday, which I've been scared of doing for ages.

[rydra_wong]

\o/ for successful nerve-retrieval!