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hawkwing_lbMile 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.
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.)
#
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.
#
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.
