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.