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hawkwing_lb) wrote2008-10-01 09:12 pm
hawkwing_lb) wrote2008-10-01 09:12 pm
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uptown boy, can you dance the tango?
Running: mile in 9 mins 40, after which my ankle started to hurt like fuck. I guess I'm going to have to see if seeing the on-campus physio will put me too much out of pocket.
Miles treadmilled since 10-09-08: 31
Climbing: About three hours at the wall, a little more half of that bouldering, because it was empty until Andy came in at half five. After he arrived, I sent the yellow 5 for practise, and the grey 5+, and! I sent the blue 5+! A scrappy, messy, flaily success, but still! Success!
I also attempted white 6a#3, to no better success than last time. And I'm very annoyed by the fact that the top-rope on the red 6a I was working on has been moved. I am, damnit, not ready to lead a damn roof. (I'm not really ready to lead at all. But I keep looking out for a lead climbing course. There hasn't been one on offer since July.)
If I do the red 5+ the next time I'm down climbing, that will mean I've (mostly) done everything under 6a in the place. There are seven routes under 6a. (6a, in the French system, is US 5.10a or b equivalent, I think? It's UK 5b, anyway.)
Considering that at the beginning of the summer I was doing walls rated maybe 4, struggling with 5a at best (I think I was working on a very overhung 5+, before they reset the routes), that's an improvement of the better part of entire grade in three months, most of it packed into this last month.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.
Despite the hail, a good day. Free chocolate and icecream, and a free USB key, because it's Freshers' Week, and all about the free stuff.
And I joined the gamers society, which looks like it might be fun, if I can just free up enough time to do social things. They appear to do many games I've never heard of, including rpgs - I've never played, much as I kind of always wanted to - and some thing called "werewolves" that I got corralled/encouraged into, along with this year's archsoc auditor. (Who is all about the imperial power-crazy. But in a good way.)
I'd almost forgotten how many friends I actually have, in college, not having seen many of them in the flesh since last year.
My feeling about this year? Still good.
Even better if I get this freaking ankle sorted.
Miles treadmilled since 10-09-08: 31
Climbing: About three hours at the wall, a little more half of that bouldering, because it was empty until Andy came in at half five. After he arrived, I sent the yellow 5 for practise, and the grey 5+, and! I sent the blue 5+! A scrappy, messy, flaily success, but still! Success!
I also attempted white 6a#3, to no better success than last time. And I'm very annoyed by the fact that the top-rope on the red 6a I was working on has been moved. I am, damnit, not ready to lead a damn roof. (I'm not really ready to lead at all. But I keep looking out for a lead climbing course. There hasn't been one on offer since July.)
If I do the red 5+ the next time I'm down climbing, that will mean I've (mostly) done everything under 6a in the place. There are seven routes under 6a. (6a, in the French system, is US 5.10a or b equivalent, I think? It's UK 5b, anyway.)
Considering that at the beginning of the summer I was doing walls rated maybe 4, struggling with 5a at best (I think I was working on a very overhung 5+, before they reset the routes), that's an improvement of the better part of entire grade in three months, most of it packed into this last month.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.
Despite the hail, a good day. Free chocolate and icecream, and a free USB key, because it's Freshers' Week, and all about the free stuff.
And I joined the gamers society, which looks like it might be fun, if I can just free up enough time to do social things. They appear to do many games I've never heard of, including rpgs - I've never played, much as I kind of always wanted to - and some thing called "werewolves" that I got corralled/encouraged into, along with this year's archsoc auditor. (Who is all about the imperial power-crazy. But in a good way.)
I'd almost forgotten how many friends I actually have, in college, not having seen many of them in the flesh since last year.
My feeling about this year? Still good.
Even better if I get this freaking ankle sorted.