Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Time for a rest

Tomorrow night I am taking the red-eye to NYC and I will have 4 days without climbing, which I think should do me good as I really had no energy tonight.

First I went to the Stanford gym with Muriel for about 1 hour. Muriel worked on V0s and a traverse, followed by a 5.8. I first did a V1, V1+, and a V3+ (all including down climbing). Then I worked on a V6 (I can now do all the moves, but haven't managed to link them). I followed that with a V7 which is probably out of my league, but I can do parts of it.

After that I had a quick dinner and then left for PG to meet Jess. We wanted to take the lead test but unfortunately nobody could give it tonight. I lost track of exactly what we did but Jess climbed strong working on a few 10b, 10c, 10d, and 11a after her warm-up of 9 and 10a. I warmed up on a 10a, and then worked on a 11b, 11a, and gave three tries to my new 12a (pink) obsession. A 60 feet monster which I have tried about 7 or 8 times now. Tonight I added one move to my best performance, taking me from within 2 moves of a clean finish. Unfortunately, I did worst on both subsequent attempts.

2 comments:

brian said...

Nice climbing. Mandatory rest is sometimes a good thing to avoid injury.

g said...

Yes. I have been lucky so far, but better safe than sorry.

Yesterday I bumped into 2 TRC climbers at PG. Small world...