your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder

[hawkwing_lb]

Mile in 9mins, 10secs. 18 mins on treadmill total, for 1.5 miles total.

Climbing kicked the hell out of all of me. I sent the usual three routes, worked my way a little higher on the grey overhang route (I think it's a 4b, but it could be 4c - I went to read the posted grades, and they are a very confusing muddle), and picked out a couple of new routes to try, one 4c, and one 5a. (Probably. If I can tell from scribbles. Also, it does not help that I don't know whether we're using the UK system or the French one. I think the UK, but I'm not at all sure.)

I didn't send any routes apart from my now-basic three. But I did a lot of climbing, trying new and interesting routes, and retrying the basics when I tired out. (I got myself some climbing shoes today. I am So. Broke. now, but they've made a big difference.) The climbers' club had their AGM, too, so I stuck around for that.

I'm so stiff and tired now, though. I wore out my right elbow, and had to figure out how to belay left-handed, to better save my arm for climbing. Which is just as easy as belaying right-handed, it surprised me to discover. (I thought I was purely right-hand dominant, but it's starting to look like I'm developing some small degree of left-handed competence as I age.)

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The tail end of a beautiful, warm, sunny May day was... rain. I was rained upon while I walked up from the station in the twilight-dark.

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I am too tired to watch CM. So I will waste a little more time on the internets, engage in debate with myself over whether I should go to the gym tomorrow (I should, but will I?), and ponder the apocalypse.

Because, you know? I've started to look around me, and I think it may be coming. Not this year, not this decade.

But you tell me what you think will happen when the oil pinch hits, and whether you think there'll be sufficient renewable/sustainable energy resources in place by then to prop up this (ecologically disastrous, economically oil-dependent) civilisation?

You tell me that.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Brava, you.

Yes, the spiderman shoes make a HUGE difference. And I can belay ambidextrous too. *g*

[cristalia.livejournal.com]

But you tell me what you think will happen when the oil pinch hits, and whether you think there'll be sufficient renewable/sustainable energy resources in place by then to prop up this (ecologically disastrous, economically oil-dependent) civilisation?

Roof-sheep! It's the answer!

[davefreer.livejournal.com]

Will the end of oil affect climbing boots :-)? And now- having pressed you to get boots, I will tell you that it is good to train on the easier stuff in your bare feet, or runners, because it builds more upper body strength. Seriously that's cool and I hope it makes it more enjoyable. Your next trick is to learn to tie a figure eight on bight at least, with one hand, either hand. (you may use teeth).

Now onto the last question... technologically we're ready or near ready (5-10 year horizon) to quit fossil oil right now (It'd take a small book to talk about all of the avenues. Suffice to say some is too weird for great sf... and yet has real probability. Socio-politically (with the economic fallout from that, not the real economics of it all) we aren't.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should investigate sheep-rustling techniques. :P

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Being able to use either hand evens out the strain on the elbows. :)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I get pessismistic when I'm tired. And short-term-thinking economics make me angry.

About the shoes: I'll remember that. :)