Friday Glee! (Yes, it's the substitute.)

[wpadmirer]

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.

I have no vid to share, because I suck. But if you do, please do share!

Comments

[wpadmirer]

My glee this week is that on Wednesday I managed to climb two 5.7 routes that I'd never been able to 1) start, and 2) finish.

The first is a 5.7 that has incredibly high foot moves, coupled with there being only one foot hold per move. So you have to constantly smear. I finally managed to make the second move on the route, and from there I was able to get to the top. I was quite amazed and very happy.

The second is a mis-marked route. Everyone in the gym agrees it's not a 5.7, even if the route setter insists it is. It's on an overhang, and I'd managed to make all but the final move before. This week I got that final move. YAY!

[emperor]

Cool :)

also: thanks for the glee post!

[wpadmirer]

You're welcome!

[rydra_wong]

This sounds like a triumph, or several! \o/

[wpadmirer]

It was! It's amazing how you feel when you complete something you couldn't do before.

[emperor]

Here's a video of Kevin Shields doing the first ascent of Cù Sìth E76c, 5 years after a serious injury:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjfqpE0YEOk

[wpadmirer]

Cool! Thanks!

[rydra_wong]

Oh, that's awesome, thank you! I'm a big fan of Kev Shields.

[emperor]

Work has been very annoying this week; it seems that aggravation at work results in better climbing, though :) I had a great session at the wall this week, rattling off a string of F6B/+s that had previously proved troublesome. I repeated the F6c+ project, too :-)

[wpadmirer]

If work is going to be aggravating, the least it can do is contribute focus to your climbing.

[rydra_wong]

What wpadmirer said. I love those moments when aggravation actually gets burned off in good climbing (as opposed to getting in the way of it).

[rydra_wong]

Thanks for posting this!

[wpadmirer]

Happy to do it. I look forward to Friday Glee!