Yeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

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*dance of joy*

*dance of joy*

*more dancing*

*more joy*

so hubris and i went climbing and i made him do routes. Holy crap are my forearms tired. I was right to make him do it for a couple of reasons though. One is that my shoulder is pretty bitched. I must have done something recently to exacerbate it but i have no idea what. I think it could just be that it's really weak and i'm pushing it really hard and it needs some nurture.

see this is where a nice man with a bottle of wine and great hands goes 'i'll rub your back.'

anyway, we did routes. and i FLASHED a 5.9 that I never even SAW before. Like flashed it. Did have to climb down one move and reposition and keep going but it wasn't a fall. I was totally in control of what was happening... i just needed to change where everything was. Anyway not the point.

Last time I did routes I was falling off all but one of the 5.8s (which is now my warmup wall) and now I'm up a grade. best part? SO IS HUBRIS! [sorry dude, were you gonna blog that one yourself?]

Still I'm concerned about this shoulder. It doesn't feel weak at all when I'm working with it but it has this nasty crunching thing and sore muscles everywhere. Tragically I'm really way more lame than you think because I've been told TWICE by my friend the hot doctor who is also a rehabilitation specialist what I should do about it. Twice.

Yeah I'm lame.

Also the figure out time is a lot shorter than it was. Like last time I did routes I'd try a move and fall and try and fall and just sort of run out of ideas. I'd be sure there was something possible but I had no idea what it was. Today I was like try x, okay try y, okay try z... hey that worked!

As othercat would say my catalog of cliches is growing.

I knew bouldering paid huge dividends but I'd never just bouldered before. I always did it and routes or mostly routes and bouldering when my partner screwed off with 'that cute girl'. This time because hubris hasn't got a harness I've been sort of forced to boulder except when someone else wants to do routes.

Don't misunderstand, I love bouldering... but I also love routes so I usually do a mix. Except this time. But today, I didn't boulder at all (except a 10 feet short of two laps traverse) and then we did top roping and I rocked the gym.

I even tried the starts of a couple of 5.10-

So yeah a few weeks of bouldering and hubris and i both went up a grade/grade and a half.

that shit is awesome.
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I have a job interview tomorrow and another one on wednesday for teaching. Today I taught two new classes. All in all an eventful couple of days.

Also, CAMPING this weekend with great folks! Damm I'm stoked. I'm so lucky to live my life... poverty and all!