Aim: not to let Jay stay better than me at Trad for much longer

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Unlevel-headed member of team Gadd-vey

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Miss Jeanes

Good luck Michaf C

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massive punter

New Aim:

Not get shitweak while I deal with my uber crap finger injury

Do lots and lots of very easy climbs every time I go to the wall, maybe get some endurance as a result :s

Maaannn I hate injuries


If I loose 1 armers I'll chop of my legs to loose weight...

Update:
Grey: Haven't done yet
Orange: Have tried and fallen/failed
Red: Smashed in the face like a Cornish Pasty

Indoors

Lead 7s
Boulder V5/6

Outdoors

shag 100 routes at Stanage in a day - Feet hurt too much after 50. Tough challenge.
Tick 10+ E points in a day
Tick 15+ E points in a day
Tick 20+ E points in a day

E1s: Strapiombo, Left Unconquerable, Tippler, Cemetary Gates, Cenotaph

E2s: Wuthering, Browns Eliminate, The Rasp, Wombat, Left Wall, Suspense

E3s: The Asp, Great Slab, Telli, San Melas, Siren and GBH

E4s: Moonwalk

Reasonably on track, slightly off the pace though.

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Developing Nicely.

I take it green are the ones you successfully completed hey Gareth?

Haha no the red ones are, my lingo wasnt clear enough. It was me that did the smashing

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Developing Nicely.

Byron start climbing loads of easy trad climbs. You'll get awesome at placing gear. Then once your fully recovered, you should be dicking all over harder routes. It worked for Dave Macleod, so maybe it could work for you?

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Key:
Attainable
Will be hard work
Crazy
WTF

By the end of the summer I aim to:

Have done all the VS's & HVS's on my Wishlist [Including The Sloth]
Be able to run 7 miles cross country in under 50 min (My record's 52min so shouldn't be too hard)
Dead hang on open crimps for just over a minute (3 fingers, both hands) ... [May be easy for some, but not myself!]
Boulder font 6b+/6c
Lead indoors comfortably at 6c
Improve technique on slabs


And for the mad one... be ready to try E1's by October!

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"I'm not mad, I just see things differently"
No longer VP : But still Vaguely Philippino
FYI: Actions speak louder than wombats

I'm pretty sure that's not good for you. 8 seconds is all you need. Just make the holds smaller.... You were with Dave Macleod when he told us about training, right? I think he said any longer and it's bad for your elbows or something.

The E1 goal is definitely doable. I thought you'd done E1 anyway?

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Not go completely off the rails and decide to end it all from the repeated "sitting in a stinking hot hospital watching the nice weather go by outside" format that my days seem to be taking at the moment.

for me the main two aims i have are lead flying butress direct and be able to do a one arm pull up

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pain is just weakness leaving the body

My aims are all shot now, going from falling of a desired VS to leading my first E1...i think i'm going to just shag hard and try any route that takes my fancy VS, HVS, E1 and maybe E2

I suppose i'd like to become a proper VS or HVS climber...i.e. shag any VS or HVS i try clean

other than that have lots of fun and shag as much as possible

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TOM

second one is easy, just takes time, step 1 have low bodyfat - you don't need to worry about that

Step 2 : 100 pullups a day, ideally on massive holds, so you don't get an unlucky injury from overdoing it, 10 sets of 10 a day will get you there faaassst, 50 if you've climbed, 30 if you're spanked.

Gogogo!

Why does everyone want to do 1 armed pull ups?!

I will be quite happy going my whole life without ever being able to do it, and still be able to shag at a fairly good standard.

Top tip for getting better at climbing: Go climbing! You could be amazing at 1 armers but if you cant do a rock over you will be screwed at flying buttress Alex!

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