Ups and downs
Nov. 8th, 2013 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFollowing this morning's washout, we spent the afternoon indoors, climbing up and falling off things. I didn't have a bad session, trying to crack the move that it is preventing me from completing my first 6c — I've been assigned the goal of completing one by Christmas — and working on another that involves going the whole way — including getting past an overhang — laying back on an arete. I also made a pretty decent stab at a route with no handholds whatsoever, using nothing but a series of tiny footholds and an arete, and struggled with the first third of a 6b comprised entirely of slopers — obviously an area I need to work on.
R felt bit out of sorts and had an attack of nerves fairly early on, choking on something she'd breezed up a couple of weeks ago, leaving her feeling a bit glum — a shame because she was solid on everything else and has, somewhere along the line, turned into the queen of the knee drop. But that's OK: everyone has off days and, once we'd pinned down the cause of the despondency, we realised that it gives us a good excuse for going again sometime in the next few days...
R felt bit out of sorts and had an attack of nerves fairly early on, choking on something she'd breezed up a couple of weeks ago, leaving her feeling a bit glum — a shame because she was solid on everything else and has, somewhere along the line, turned into the queen of the knee drop. But that's OK: everyone has off days and, once we'd pinned down the cause of the despondency, we realised that it gives us a good excuse for going again sometime in the next few days...
