Friday glee now knows the answer to "But what has he done on grit?"

[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: Adam Ondra spends a few hours on the gritstone.

Comments

[juliet]

I went climbing! For the first time in about 6 months. Hurrah :)

My grade is (unsurprisingly) down (some more :/ ) and I really need to work on my risk-taking as I am more risk-averse than I want to be. But it was lots of fun, and my mum has offered to come & babysit on a regular basis so I can get over there more often.

Everything aches a bit today... And I'm wondering if wearing barefoot shoes on a day-to-day basis has let my toes spread enough that I need to get bigger climbing shoes. Tight, sure, uncomfortable, sure, but my toes were uncomfortable to the point of feeling bruised/tingly after 45 min which doesn't seem quite right.

[rydra_wong]

And I saw you! Hi! *waves*

And I'm wondering if wearing barefoot shoes on a day-to-day basis has let my toes spread enough that I need to get bigger climbing shoes. Tight, sure, uncomfortable, sure, but my toes were uncomfortable to the point of feeling bruised/tingly after 45 min which doesn't seem quite right.

I definitely find that if I'm off for a month or more, my sense of what's "tight" in shoes re-sets and my previously-comfortable climbing shoes feel painfully tight, to the point where I'd imagine they'd shrunk if I didn't know that couldn't be the case. So it could just be that.

But I've been wearing barefoot shoes for years anyway (when not cramming my toes into tiny climbing shoes ...), so it's possible that any foot change in response to them took place long ago.

[juliet]

Yes! Hello! It was v nice to see you! *waves* (sorry; couldn't remember how cautious you are about RL/online connections so erred on side of not mentioning)

It may indeed just be that. I am thinking I will wait a bit and see how my feet settle back in (assuming I really AM back to going semi-regularly *hopes*) and make a decision after a couple of months.

[rydra_wong]

I try not to publicly connect my DW and RL names, but we've certainly mentioned before that we both climb at the Arch/Biscuit -- that's no problem.

(It doesn't narrow things down beyond a lot of London climbers, after all. *g*)

Thanks for the thoughtfulness.

[wpadmirer]

Getting back to climbing after a long lay-off is always a tough transition. Though for me it's my hands that suffer the most. Arthritis sucks.