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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.

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: Te Cuelgas Guey, a roof problem with some truly funky beta.

Date: 2013-06-07 11:51 am (UTC)
allochthonous: (then you can tell if it's summer)
From: [personal profile] allochthonous
The good: I bouldered, which I had not done before! It was really fun, although I was terrible and my instructor was mildly horrified by the fact I couldn't even do one "proper" press up. Still, baby steps, and I might get to go on some actual rock next week. It's good to have someone kicking my arse on the strength training front.

The bad: I got a little exuberant when doing situps and pulled an ab muscle which means I am working from home with a bag of frozen spinach on my stomach and I have to cancel today's session. Hopefully I'll be good to go again on Monday though.

Date: 2013-06-07 12:43 pm (UTC)
wpadmirer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
Cool about the training, but yeah, don't get too exuberant! Injuries suck.

Date: 2013-06-07 12:43 pm (UTC)
wpadmirer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
STILL no climbing for me. (sigh) Those damn auto-belays can't get installed soon enough to suit me.

Date: 2013-06-08 02:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] astridv
I'm really happy because I went bouldering at one of the many school playground climbing walls after an forced month-long break for health reasons.

I even got past two problems I didn't manage all winter, so apparently I haven't lost as much muscle mass as I feared. One is a neat little dyno where I have to reach the far hold with pretty much just the fingertips, and the other one is a relatively small handhold I'm hanging from with my left hand, no footholds, and then have to get my right hand up there as well. I *knew* both were possible, I just could never manage.

I didn't climb too long though, because yo it was hot. That climbing wall with the sand in front of it is like an oven.

Date: 2013-06-08 07:59 pm (UTC)
astridv: (Default)
From: [personal profile] astridv
Yeah, something like that, that makes sense. I knew that for the dyno at least I was blocking myself.

Date: 2013-06-08 04:51 pm (UTC)
wpadmirer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] wpadmirer
WHOO-HOO! for non-lost skills and mass! Sounds like it was good.

Date: 2013-06-08 08:00 pm (UTC)
astridv: (Default)
From: [personal profile] astridv
It was great. :) I really missed it.

Date: 2013-06-08 11:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] emperor
I went climbing! It's much less convenient than Inverness-climbing, in that I have to get the train to Harlow Town, which is about 50 minutes each way, but that's not so bad if you have people-you-know on the train with you. And the Harlow climbing wall's pretty good.

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