It's Thursday, which may just be peak
fatigue day of the week for me. I've had two days of Stronglifts,
two days of Crossfit WOD's, two days on real rock, and one day on the
climbing wall, and I'm feeling the muscle soreness and fatigue. But,
today was another day to go out and train some climbing.
We went to another short, but steep
climbing area near Nelson with routes that are pretty pumpy for the
forearms as one of the big goals for today was to work the forearms.
I led three routes, but also took a ride on three of routes. One of
the rides was reasonable, as I doubt I would have finished the route
on lead, but the other two were pure and simple cop-outs. I should
have led them both. It's likely I would have fallen, but that's no
big deal.
As I wasn't actually near falling on
the other routes I led, I took four falls just for good measure.
Doug was catching me a bit more softly so this time my back didn't
hurt afterward. All that hurt was my pride as I am disappointed in
myself for not giving two of those routes a go.
I could make all sorts of excuses about
how it was bloody hot (it was), and I was pumped (I was), and
fatigued (I was), but, at the end of the day, those are all excuses
for not trying hard enough.
Steep climbing, good to fall on
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