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dyno

Tuesday: So I decide to head down to the craglet X that noone goes to, partly because it's close to the in-laws where I'm eventually headed for tea, but also because it offers a bit of solitude when you're climbing craply as I currently appear to be. I try the double cracks and get as far as the sidepull yet again, and down climb - it definitely needs a belayer or at least another mat and a spotter, so I give it up for the moment and do a bit of traversing. I've got quite a good burn routine going: traverse for about 15 moves, step off, wait one minute, repeat. I can do about 7 before arm-doom, but it must be doing some good. Slowly it seems to be coming back. Anyway, I'm about to leave when I realise I've been walking past what looks to be quite a cool dyno,very doubtful it's ever been done before so I give it a go, getting it on about the 5th go - I've called it Undiscovered Dyno, must be more or less V3 ish although I could be wrong and is 164cm... he
It seems I've left half of my forearm an finger skin at Bridestones. I always forget the man-eating properties of gritstone, especially Yorkshire grit which tends to be particularly brutal on the hottest day of the year. Nothing of note acheived, apart from a lot of mileage, so mission accomplished. Good prep for elemental and Burnt Heather - makes a change from crimping all the time... Fantastic day out, good scenery, good climbing, good company. I now sport a wife-beater sunburn too. quality.

starting slowly

Was flying solo last night and had a couple of hours spare - I dropped into Rochdale as it was raining. Considering I've not done much training of any sort this year I was quite pleased to flash a couple of V3s, after a proper warm up which was promising. need to start a bit of power training though, and reduce the beers if I'm going to get anywhere... mileage tomorrow, off to the kebs, never been before. expecting gritrash.

The start...

Thought I’d join this blogging malarkey and spout spurious crap every now and then in the safe knowledge that noone will actually read it. This is my first entrance, in which I hope to chart my rise to climbing greatness - or, well document my training... Lancashire is a fantastic place, I’ve been here for 4 years and enjoyed some cracking bouldering. There are some magic venues. However, sometimes it's crap. It seems to rain incessantly in Lancashire. Yesterday I went to Brownstones, Mecca of Lancs climbing, home of the eliminate, school of the hardcore, crimp-tastic quarried grit paradise. It was the sixth time in the last 2 weeks I’ve been out, and the first time I’ve actually climbed anything. bloody rain. Unfortunately I shortly discovered I can’t actually climb…after a 2 month layoff at the front end of the year, I've barely moved.. This must change. I’ve decided to start actually doing stuff and completing the 2009 ticklist – four months in and not one thing completed...