11/whatevertodayis/09

I climbed on Saturday. Or, rather, I was in a climbing gym on Saturday and did something that sort of looked like climbing, but I'm not sure I could call it that. Sad. It was sad.

Brendan and I went to check out Philadelphia Rock Gym in Oaks, since it's closer to his house, and it can be fun to check out other climbing gyms. However, fun is NOT 200 Girl Scouts who are hogging all of the top rope routes. Fun is NOT spending the first hour floundering on the bouldering routes that went like twenty feet high. (Okay, so maybe it wasn't twenty feet, but we all know Heather is much happier when clipped into a rope.)

By the end of two hours, skin was falling off all of my fingers and palms (and this is *not* an exaggeration. I'm molting or something.), and I was struggling to get up a 5.5.

It's so sad how quickly you can "lose it."

Stay in school, kids.

Or keep up with the rock climbing. Something along those lines.

11/3

So on Tuesday when you weren't there we worked on our projects. I got the first half done twice i think but i kept getting stuck on that one rock right under the over hang. I also tried to climb just the top half like we did that first week but it didn't go very well. After we were tired of that, we climbed a route one step lower than our project and then did some of the 4 x 4 bouldering routes.

Ok so... Heather, we can't make it this weekend. I think saturday Maddie has something to do (not sure what though) and then sunday we have to go into school and get vaccinated for swine flu or something. But apparently volleyball is starting wednesday instead of monday so we can go this tuesday. But how many more weeks are we supposed to do, because we wouldn't be able to the tuesday after. So when could/should we do that? :)

11/3

So today we warmed up and worked on our projects. I made some progress on my project but not much. I got a few moves farther than I did last time and I figured out how to do a move that was giving me trouble before. Then Kathleen told us you said to do a climb that was one level below our project so I did the route that is Maddie's project. I didn't have too much trouble with it but I did take a few breaks. but then at the very end, I didn't really know what to do. The holds were too hard to hold on to and get up. I was also tired so that didn't help much.

10/27

On tuesday we worked on our projects. We tried going from the bottom up but I got to a certain point and then couldn't really make this one move. When I tried, I fell of the wall and couldn't go any farther. Then after we gave up on our projects we climbed some sorta easy top rope routes. But a certain route on the overhang was not so easy :P

10/20 and 10/25

On Tuesday after warming up, we played some bouldering/traversing games. First we tried follow the leader in the cave which was too confusing because (I'll take the blame for that) I subtracted a lot of steps to go in a different direction than you two were planning on. After that failed we started to traverse and played tag. The chaser started on the wall about six moves behing the other person who was trying to out-climb them. One of the stategies was to start somewhere so that the person chasing you would have to do a really hard part right at the beginning that you wouldn't have to do.

On Sunday we started with a warm up and then we each climbed up some different top rope routes. I also attempted to climb the corner no hands again. Afterwards, we tried some new bouldering routes and traversed for a while.

10/20 and 10/25

On tuesday we played some fun bouldering games. One was tag with traversing and that was a lot of fun. I think I was pretty good at traversing fast and catching people :) The other game was follow the leader, which we kind of failed at. We tried to go up and over and chose the weirdest route so we eventually gave up.

Then on sunday we had a pretty relaxed day. We did a few top rope climbs that weren't too hard and then traversed and bouldered some. I tried to traverse almost all the way around the gym. With a few breaks I made it most of the way... kinda. Then we tried some bouldering problems we hadn't done before. Some were a bit harder but they were pretty good. I finished a few of them even though my shoulder was hurting a little.