Keeping on climbing on

[bolson]

I've continued to go climbing with larksdream and sometimes lbmango once or twice a week, and I'm getting better. Tonight I did a new hard 5.8 half-way twice, an old hard 5.8 much quicker and easier, a couple 5.7 routes with something approaching grace and style, and at the end of the day I tried a 5.9 and got half way up and I think I could have gotten further if I'd tried it fresh.

I continue to get better and I can feel it. Every time I go there are some moments where I pull off a move with strength and form fitting together just right. Right now I'm tired and my grip is all used up. Still, I think I've been strengthening and recovering faster. I think my next planned trip may be Sunday.

Comments

[blk]

Few things are more awesome than watching yourself improve. Just wait until you take a week off, after doing this 1-2x/week - you'll come back even stronger.

[devreux.livejournal.com]

You are making me feel very guilty over not having climbed in, literally, a year and a half. I should get cracking on going back to the wall. It'd be good for me -- I have been feeling very out of shape lately.

Way to go! Climbing is pretty darn cool. :-)