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Tuesday Swam 1 km. I decided to see if I could do 50m underwater; I failed. I let myself down, my family down, my country down.... (I managed 40m).

Apparently Kelloggs have made mathematically challenged advertising for some revolting concoction of theirs. The aim is apparently to maximise the surface area to volume ratio to maximise glaze. They essentially claimed spheres are better than torus; this is false. In fact, a sphere is the worst shape (although proof of…

Saturday Diving. We got a couple of harbour wreck dives in. The wind was strong, so we couldn't do anything more ambitious. Sunday Another harbour wreck. Cracking dive; loads of nudibranch and flatworms. Monday Climbing I have a competition on Saturday; this was practice. It was good; I got four v4s including a monkey-bar…

Wednesday Climbing, 2.5 hours. I had a technical v4 project I started towards the start of the session and got right at the end. Starting required a minor dyno to a drop knee(right hand and thought foot were on the climb, left hand smeared for balance on the wall, left leg jumped). This left me slowly move my left hand to…

Climbing. I went backwards on one of my main projects (a v4 where I was always getting to the final move last week; this week I fell off the penultimate other than that.) But I did well on the other climbs, so overall it was pretty good, getting three v4s and doing well on a v5.

Saturday Scuba diving. The forklift that launches our boat was broken, so we're did a couple of shore dives instead. They were lovely; 12 metre max, so shallow; 1 hour each. We saw 2 octopus, many cuttlefish, and a dogfish. Sunday We went to Swanage pier for more shore diving, but the visibility was terrible so we…

Tuesday Lifting, hangboarding, and some shoulder mobility stuff Wednesday Quick climb; less than an hour as I went to a comedy night afterwards. It was decent; I actually got everything I tried (so maybe I should have tried harder). One V4.

Climbing. I was in form; I session flashed a few previous projects and got a v5 long term project. (I suspect I may go too frequently; some time off last week was beneficial.)

Saturday Caving. We did P8, a little cave with a couple of pitches. Good fun, about 5 hours underground. Sunday More caving. We did the tourist trip at Peak Cavern, an easy 4 or 5 hour bimble. There's a Tom Scott video in this cave where he fails to get through the first obstacle, for sone reason. It's a very minor duck.

Climbing. I was supposed to meet up with some friends afterwards, so the plan was to only go for one hour. I had so much fun that I let them know I couldn't make it, and stayed for 3 hours. I was in pretty good form.

More caving. We did Shakespeare's cave in Wales. It is allegedly what inspired Shakespeare Midsummer's Night Dream as home of the faeries. (Appropriately, the lad I did the cave with is currently playing Puck in an opera.) I wore a 3 mil shortie wetsuit under my caving oversuit. It was hideously inadequate. There are 4…

Cardio day for me too. I went caving. We were planning on a huge trip, but one of the group was struggling. So we didn't get to the destination. 7 hours underground; 8 hours total. Loads of crawling; it was a very tight cave. It was really pretty.

Wednesday 12 miles walk and a sauna. I managed 2 minutes in the ice bath post sauna, which is good for me. I've been practicing my breath holds in the hot spa thing, I 'm up to 2.5 minutes. Thursday Climbing, 2 hours. I was decent on strength-based overhangs, but actually not firing on all cylinders for slab; normally it's…

Monday Climbing, I was poor; gravity was high. 2 hours. Tuesday Climbing, 3 hours. It was fun; gravity had returned to normal. I got many of the routes I fell off the day before. No v5s but quite a few v4s.

I've only complained to the Advertising Standards Authority once. MacDonalds had a campaign where you could choose from a list for drinks, burger, sides etc. They claimed it was something like 28,476 possible combinations. Simple combinatorics proved this was hugely inflated, and for good measure I back solved for the…

It was stunning weather, so I did a medium length walk: my house to Dorking, with the train back. 6 hours, 18 miles and around 750 metres ascent. (I made the route up in the fly: My house to Epsom Downs racecourse; then to Walton on the Hill; cross the M25 near Kingswood; turn right onto the North Downs Way; leave it to go…

@nossmf I have a new technique I use on squeezes; I've been trying it a couple of years. I breathe out, close my eyes, and try to get through the restriction with my eyes shut. It seems to work well - it avoids forcing my way through and gets a smoother movement pattern.

Rest day yesterday, so 1 km swim. Fairly minimal walking; I may have been below 10k steps for a change.

I've been swimming a lot recently. I'm a lot less bouyant than when I was fat: I need to breathe in to float; previously I needed to exhale to sink. My scuba diving bears this out; I quite often don't need lead to sink (depending on what kit I'm using).

10 mile walk and 1 hour climb. I hadn't planned on climbing, hence the short session. (I was in a pub, but I don't drink so I got bored.) It was good, I got the stuff I fell off on Monday.

Wednesday Climbing, decent session. Thursday Swimming, 1km Friday Gentle caving. The scariest bit was walking down the centre of a stream (outside) to find an obscure, little cave I realised I had lost my car keys. They were in the water, 5 minutes upstream. Saturday Caving. Good fun; a slightly bigger trip (around 7…

I actually didn't go climbing on Wednesday; I ended up jumping up and down at a punk rock gig in East London. It was fun.

I went climbing again yesterday. It was another good session; I got a few projects. I seemed to rely on strength rather than technique for a few of them (although they're actually really related; for example if you can't hold on at all you can't then plop in a heel hook for the next move.)

A while since I updated... Wednesday last week Climbing, a slight improvement over Monday but still not brilliant. Thursday Rest day; 10 miles walk and 1 mile swim Friday Another rest day, so 12 mile walk. Saturday Caving, lots of surveying and digging. 8.5 hours. A big boulder moved unexpectedly on one dig, which was a…

I got home late on Sunday, and stayed awake for around 24 hours on the journey. I went climbing on Monday. I was terrible; I fell off everything. I had a short swim (1km) yesterday.

I spent a week scuba diving in Kenya, at Watamu. It was brilliant. A friend (who has a PhD in marine biology) runs the marine bit of a local charity, so we tried to help restore the local coral reef. The reef is in reasonable nick, but it does periodically has bleaching events. (Some corals are only able to survive in a…

@DiscusTank5 as @mtaratoot says, "dive" was shorthand for decompression treatment in the chamber(s). There were many chambers; my first two were in a big one with a nurse. The next ones were in a mono-chamber, a bit like a transparent coffin. (On a side note, Comex 30 is unusual; most people in the UK probably get Tabe 6…