Replies
-
Sunday Rest day. I went to see Skunk Ananise and the Smashing Pumpkins. I elected to walk to the gig, which is slightly over 16 miles. It's a nice route, along the Hogsmill River for many miles before going through Richmond Park. I needed to get a bit of wriggle on to meet my friends beforehand, so it took just under 4.5…
-
Climbing, 2.5 hours and 3 hours' walking. I was good at climbing; I seem to be way better at v4s than earlier in the year. The highlight was a jumpy overhangy thing. I am broken now.
-
Climbing, 2.5 hours. Good session, I moved well and was reasonably strong. I also got around 25,000 steps in; the gym was far away and I don't like the Tube.
-
I have seen it, amazing documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I went climbing yesterday. It was a training session concentrating on dynamic movement; it is a weakness of mine. I was surprisingly good.
-
I went diving over the weekend. We saw a baby mola mola on the surface between dives on the Saturday. (2 dives per day, all to about 20m; all around 45 minutes long.) Not the best photo of the sunfish, but the best I've got.
-
My logging has been poor recently. I've done stuff; mainly climbing and caving. Today was climbing. It was good; I got loads of v4s including 2 flashes.
-
Thursday Swimming Saturday Scuba diving, a 30m wreck followers by a 15 metrw drift dive. Both duces were about 59 minutes . Lovely, no-one got lost this time, unlike the previous Sunday. (My AIS location widget arrived, thankfully, should it all go awry.) Sunday Blown out from diving, and my brand new car broke on the wat…
-
I went climbing. It was a relatively quick session, at 2 hours. I was good; I go four v4s including a flash. I got near the top of a v5, but was too scared to get the final move.
-
A while since I logged.. . Monday Climbing. I was good, my movement was fluid. Tuesday I got some form of stomach bug. Accidental rest day. Wednesday I thought I had recovered by the evening, so I went for a bimble around a local mine. Very nice evening. Thursday The bug returned. Friday I seemed to have recovered, so I…
-
Very useful for climbing, though. Friday 1 km swim and lots of walking. Saturday Diving. 0 viz, but fun. 2 shallow 40 minutes dives. I was guiding a beginner friend Sunday 4 hour walk then 3 hours climb. I was rather good, flashed two v4s. I've exercised vigorously daily for 3 weeks. I'll have a rest day on Thursday.
-
My logging is lax. We threw a rope over a tree in Clapham Common yesterday to practice Single Rope Technique for caving. Today, I went climbing. It was good. The one I was most pleased with was a v4 in the cave (you start off upside down; the most difficult move is hauling yourself up to the vertical bit of wall.)
-
I got a v5 at climbing today. It's not my first, but I think it's my first this year. It was a terrifying, technical job mainly on tiny crimps. Finger strength was useful.
-
I have failed to log in ages. I have been active. I went climbing today. I started off very poorly; gravity was high. I tried a v5 towards the end. To my surprise, it felt doable. It took 20 minutes and about 10 attempts, but I eventually got it. I think it was my first v5 in about 5 months.
-
-
Units are pretty common in the UK. One guy on the boat bought his; two more have them but chose to go open circuit. Scillies diving is pretty recreational, so open circuit works OK. It's never really appealed to me as I'm a bit chaotic, and they tend to kill non-careful owners. (The most common brand here is AP, which come…
-
My equipment for this was a bit basic; 2 sidemount 12 litre cylinders filled with air. The wreck is on a slope, so we weren't in the depths for long; the average depth was 19 metres. There is a compressor on the boat; but it's just air so if we wanted nitrox or mix we'd have needed to bring a rich bottle and whip it. My…
-
Monday We did a wreck, the King Cadwaller. This has loads of nudibranch and lots of giant crayfish. 34 metres, 42 minutes. Then we did a seal dive. It took half an hour to get to the right spot, but they were quitex playful when we found them. 23 metres, 47 minutes. Tuesday We did the Italia, another wreck. It's one of the…
-
I am scuba diving in the Scillies. Friday I drove down. This could have gone better; I got just past Stonehenge when I realised I had forgotten to pack my BCD. I turned around; came back home and had a quick run to get rid of pent up energy. I got to Penzance at 1.30 a.m. Saturday We dropped out dive kit off at 7 a.m. for…
-
I had 2 back to back all day work meetings in Hove, so I was overnight in a hotel. I decided to go bouldering in the evening. The gym turned out to 3 miles from my hotel, and the meeting venue was 6 miles. I walked both directions to the gym and one to the venue (I was running late, so got a train in the morning.) So I got…
-
-
My mum typically wakes up at about 10 each day… I'm pretty sure I will once I retire, unless I have an early ropes off. Diving takes precedence over comfort.
-
Today was a rest day, so I walked 12 miles and swam just over 1 mile. My view is that therapy may well have benefits for those with something clinically wrong; that goes way outside my experience and expertise. I'm less convinced there are benefits for someone without clinical symptoms. Exercise, and also not being obese,…
-
I'm mid 50s, not mid 40s. I was 5 years older than anyone else at the comp, so my age comment was supposed to be comparative (although I probably didn't convey that properly.) I was certainly relatively unathletic until my (at least) my thirties. I went to a working class state school in England, and athletic ability was…
-
I entered a climbing competition. To my amazement, I was joint winner. I was also the oldest there by a good 5 years or so.
-
I entered a climbing competition. It was a team thing; my team won. I got a v4 in the final section which made all the difference. I'm old, and not very athletic, so I'm pretty happy with how it all planned out.
-
Climbing, 2.5 hours. I started really badly. There was a V3 slab that took 45 minutes, but I eventually got it. (The crux was a reverse flag letting me reach a small crimp.) After that, it was a pretty good session with a couple of v4s.
-
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…
