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Haven't been in just over a month in part because I was sick one week (just enough to be annoyed at my own malingering state while also not really being able to focus on a printed page enough to retain information from it), and then the usual trip southerly for most of two weeks, blah, blah. Anyway.
In the time since I've been last, they've changed most of the routes and problems, which is both awesome (new routes and problems!) and annoying, 'cause now I can't try to beat my projects.
I found a new project anyway, a bouldering problem that traverses an overhang, so you have to move your feet from one wall over to the opposite wall in order to finish the route. It's very heel-hook and toe lever friendly, which was awesome to experiment with at a low height. I beat my first hangup (transitioning feet successfully from one wall to the other) and then my hands gave out trying to move my left foot down enough to put my left hand where my left foot had been. Because of course they did.
I'm getting more comfortable with climbing, even though I only worked one route and three problems. My working range is 5.8s on the routes, I can get up a 5.7 without much hesitation but 5.8s usually involve a little bit of problemsolving skills I'm not very experienced with yet. Working range on the problems at this gym are the greens (I can't remember if they're v1 or v2) because there's ranges of motion I need to figure out in order to finish problems.
My hands are so thrilled with me. *cheerful*
I mean, I'm holding up spectacularly better than I used to. I can do three mat pilates and two trx-pilates hybrid classes a week when I'm down south, while taking notes on the distance-learning courses (so many notes), or take notes all weekend at a teacher training seminar (ow), or take notes and climb every so often when I'm up north, and I'm uncomfortable and trending towards sore, but I'm not hooped.
Having to take a break from notes whenever my handwriting starts getting really ratty is annoying, though.
In the time since I've been last, they've changed most of the routes and problems, which is both awesome (new routes and problems!) and annoying, 'cause now I can't try to beat my projects.
I found a new project anyway, a bouldering problem that traverses an overhang, so you have to move your feet from one wall over to the opposite wall in order to finish the route. It's very heel-hook and toe lever friendly, which was awesome to experiment with at a low height. I beat my first hangup (transitioning feet successfully from one wall to the other) and then my hands gave out trying to move my left foot down enough to put my left hand where my left foot had been. Because of course they did.
I'm getting more comfortable with climbing, even though I only worked one route and three problems. My working range is 5.8s on the routes, I can get up a 5.7 without much hesitation but 5.8s usually involve a little bit of problemsolving skills I'm not very experienced with yet. Working range on the problems at this gym are the greens (I can't remember if they're v1 or v2) because there's ranges of motion I need to figure out in order to finish problems.
My hands are so thrilled with me. *cheerful*
I mean, I'm holding up spectacularly better than I used to. I can do three mat pilates and two trx-pilates hybrid classes a week when I'm down south, while taking notes on the distance-learning courses (so many notes), or take notes all weekend at a teacher training seminar (ow), or take notes and climb every so often when I'm up north, and I'm uncomfortable and trending towards sore, but I'm not hooped.
Having to take a break from notes whenever my handwriting starts getting really ratty is annoying, though.
