Friday Glee can train while injured

[emperor]

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: here's Courtney Sanders talking about how she kept training after injuring her ankle.

Comments

[emperor]

The wall where I climb (Harlow) has a little concrete pyramid outside with gritty sprayed-on concrete providing the routes. I've been wanting to climb on it for ages, and this week thought to ask if it was possible. Ropes duly appeared (you have to use their provided top-ropes on it), and we had fun! A couple of entertaining crack climbs which you don't get on indoor walls much.

The resulting midge-bites are less good though :-s

[wpadmirer]

Very cool! Bug bites, ugh! And I live in Florida where bugs are ubiquitous.

[rydra_wong]

Yay crack-climbing! (Boo, midges ...)

[wpadmirer]

I'm working up the courage to try out the auto-belays at the gym. I have to, my partner keeps being either injured or sick. (sigh)

But this week is not possible because I got myself roped into working on Saturday on a freelance job. I need the money, but that just gives me one day off this week, and unfortunately there's shit I need to get done at home on Sunday. (sigh)

[astridv]

Oh, I'd love to have auto-belays! It would be nice to have an alternative if your top-rope parterns aren't available (which is more often than not...)

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, I'm definitely lucky to have a gym where it's an option. Partners are hard to come by!

[rydra_wong]

I have glee because you guys totally had the glee covered while I was away in the lands of minimal internet (meta-glee!).

I have glee because I am back in the lands of broadband and can thus watch all the online climbing videos again.

Also I have glee because I got an outdoor, gritstone V6.

[astridv]

*gritstone envy*

I know what you mean re. online climbing videos. They're very addictive. I love all of this guy's on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/20902983

I went bouldering tonight. Wanted to go toproping but my partner was busy again. Anyway, bouldering was really fun. Even though the route I wanted to work on because only the final part was missing has disappeared since Wednesday.

[wpadmirer]

Whoo-hoo! A V6? Man, I'm impressed.

[emperor]

That should be in extra-big type! Go you! \o/