Friday glee is all about the foot jams

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

Comments

[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.

[wpadmirer]

Cool about the training, but yeah, don't get too exuberant! Injuries suck.

[rydra_wong]

Yay bouldering! I couldn't do a "proper" press-up when I started either. Also yay actual rock!

Ouch for pulled ab muscles, though ...

[wpadmirer]

STILL no climbing for me. (sigh) Those damn auto-belays can't get installed soon enough to suit me.

[rydra_wong]

AAAAARGH.

[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.

[rydra_wong]

Yaaaay! Definitely sounds like you haven't lost strength.

Sometimes a break seems to have that effect; I've read a theory that it lets the brain clean up the climbing muscle memories, keep the patterns that work and discard the junk.

[astridv]

Yeah, something like that, that makes sense. I knew that for the dyno at least I was blocking myself.

[wpadmirer]

WHOO-HOO! for non-lost skills and mass! Sounds like it was good.

[astridv]

It was great. :) I really missed it.

[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.

[rydra_wong]

Yay climbing! Glad you've got somewhere decent to go.