Well -- I'm consistantly hitting V4's now.

I've done four in the past week. Thats way kewl I think :) They're hard but I seem to be able to get them fairly quickly (the same night or if I'm already pumped, the next time).

Now why are V5's so much harder?? I suppose I should start working on them again -- since I got sick I dropped back to V3 range and have been working my way back up to the harder climbs. Looks like I"m getting there at last!

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Saw this on Missy's blog and thought it just about sums up my life:

"Why is user error always blamed on the admin?"

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I got pics up finally from the bouldering outing -- uploaded 'em to the vertex site -- they can be accessed here.

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Welp -- I've had a fun weekend and despite having to work today, today wasn't that bad of a day.

Lets start it off with Saturday...
Got up early (at least for a Saturday) and went with Jason to meet with Carl to go out and boulder at the coast. We're doing an online guidbook for the Vertex website. He's our local "guide" -- he's a kewl guy -- way good climber and fun to be around.

Anywase, we spent most of Saturday out doing that -- I'll be posting some pics later. I'll make sure to post 'em here and on the vertex site. It was way WAY fun.

Yesterday was a lazy day -- nice and slow. Ran some errands and then I climbed a bit. Did a super lap leading -- had to take a break 3/4 of the way through tho. My arms were pumped out. Came home and just chilled. Went to bed kinda early and crashed hard.

Work was work today. Went to climb tonight knowing that we didn't have alot of time. Jason was busy and needed to be home at 7:30 and I had told M that I'd be home around the same time. So we went without our normal bouldering warmups and warmed up on easy top-roping. They set some fun problems (forgot to write them down -- *BAD BRENT*) yesterday so we hopped on those. We also hadn't top-roped for at least a week or more as the other new routes that they set last time were also lacking ascents by either of us. So we had fun.

I climbed (let me see if I can remember) a 5.7 to warm up, a 5.9, another 5.9, a 5.10a, a 5.8 (with a large static move at the end just for shits and giggles), the 5.7 that I did at the beginning with a HUGE static last move (again just for poops and laughter) with a downclimb at the end of that, then I hopped on (and on-sighted/flashed) a 5.11a. Lots of climbs considering we were only there for about an hour or just over!

I also hopped on a V4 that I've worked a couple times and did all the moves up to the last one -- the first full linkup of the route that I've done. Now I've just got to deadpoint a two-finger crimper that I bump off to the end. That move is way big and way hard. I was going to take off the rest of the week and not climb to give my body some time to relaxe but I think that I will have to go back in tomorrow just to finish that route. I think that if I had been fresher that I would have been able to stick it tonight. Ah well.

So thats about it for now. I'll post something once images are up. I filled up my 256mb flashcard in the canon -- guess it's time to buy another one -- or maybe a 512mb one??

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