#climbing runnerpost

[somerunner]

After months away from the gym I can still hit a V3 boulder somewhat easily. 👍👍

[somerunner]

So you got bouldering. Very fun. Do as one person, you have “projects” which are climbs that take many tries to complete. Projects are also in all other climbing but talked about in bouldering often.

You got top-rope climbing. Very fun. You climb until you really can’t anymore, instead of climbing until you get tired.

You got lead climbing. Amazing. All the fear that you got rid of by doing top-rope over and over, it comes back. Nice adrenaline boost.

I’m not sure I will ever be brave or experienced enough (or dedicated enough to fork out the cash) to do trad climbing. I don’t trust the little cracks in the rock to hold onto the little nuts and slightly-less-little cams. I don’t.

[somerunner]

Embarrassed myself at the climbing gym. It’s been several months since I’ve gone more than once a month so I lost most of my fitness, and I also forgot how to lead belay.

A friend wanted to get lead-certified, and needed me as his partner. We ended up pausing the certification test to resume another day, when I knew which way to point a grigri.

Ran “home” from there; 2.3 miles, 8:11/mi, 177 avg hr and 188 max hr. Still haven’t looked up how to find my cadence.

Edit: second run to actual home was 3 miles, 7:41/mi, 175/184 avg/max hr.

[somerunner]

woah mama i have an Elvis climbing reference hypothesis: early in his career he gained notoriety for his dancing style that involved a lot of shaking his legs - maybe the guy meant that shaky-leg adrenaline feeling after someone does something nerve-wracking for the first time?

any clips of his performances from the 1950s will show you the moves i mean (which caused Elvis to be censored on some TV shows, shown only from the waist up as his pelvis moves were deemed obscene!)

Oh yeah I knew he was talking about me having shaky legs, I just didn’t expect him to make an Elvis reference about it! Thought he would say something like “yeah your stomach lags behind a bit on those longer drops” or “you always think ‘did I tie the figure eight correctly?’ on your way down”

I don’t remember well enough but maybe I brought up having shaky legs, verbatim, and that’s what prompted his response.

Not many common jokes about shaky legs. Probably like one or two of them but like, the only one that comes to mind is like “legs fail when they fall asleep, legs fail when they’re too awake, what gives?” and I invented it from whole cloth. No idea what the real “not about Elvis but still about shaky legs” jokes are.

I mean whoa mama my legs were shaking hard enough to set off a seismometer