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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…

I did have a PFO; I got it plugged in 2020. It took 6 months to get full sign off post operation; immediately following it I spent 10 consecutive days diving the South Coast. I sold my twinset post bend; I bought a new one on this trip. Heated vests are lowest risk, and nicest, on the ascent. Sitting around ages at a deco…

@DiscusTank5 I am a real wimp when it comes to the cold these days. Hence my cold water diving has three layers of undersuit beneath my drysuit, and a heated vest, and a big coat and hat to chuck on afterwards. I had hypothermia once; I don't recommend it. (Getting a scuba bend was probably worse, I don't recommend that…

Rest day, so I swam 1 km

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Monday Climbing, 2 hours. Jumping practice, I was pretty poor, but it was fun. Tuesday Climbing. This was (I think) my 6th day out of 7; I expected to be terrible. I wasn't; I got loads of projects. Really good fun,; 3.25 hour session. I also got about 25,000 steps in. I am tired now.

Saturday Climbing, 2 hours. Good fun; I got loads of v4s and only failed on one Sunday Climbing. Only 1.5 hours, my shortest session this year. Again, good fun and I was in reasonable form . I saw loads of copulating frogs on a walk after the climb. This couple was unsuccessfully trying to climb a flint rock.

Yeah, I don't like the new UI at all. To make something bold in the old word, it was [b]Bold[\b]. Easy. In the new world, I need to highlight exactly the bit to bold, highlight the bits to bold, then a mouse click on B. I don't like using my mouse (I code using NeoVim, for example); so this strikes me as a huge step…

Wednesday Climbing, 2.5 hours. Decent enough session; I repeated one of my recnt v5s; and got a whole slew of new v4s.

Tuesday Rest day: 8 miles walk and a short swim. I walked to the swimming gym, and lost track of time. I had the choice between a short sauna and a 1 km swim (my usual) or a 30 minute sauna and shorter swim. I chose the latter; 450 metres only