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Black Witch is a specific neoprene glue, so was probably the best option for this seal. I thought Aqua Sure was more for latex seals. I probably should have gaffa taped it as well as glued it. This suit is my back-up; main suit is getting repaired and I should have it back soon. Sunday Climbing. A quick session, as a…

I spent the week diving in Kinlochbervie, in a very remote bit of North West Scotland. It was lovely. The diving was fairly standard UK hard boat fare; 2 dives a day for 6 days. (30 metres max; 1 hour max). I was pretty dived up by the end, my buoyancy, trim and air consumption were good. I got a hole in my neoprene neck…

@Ennaelangels is that lead climbing? My goal recently was to get v5 at bouldering; I have got a couple but it's quite rare. There are still many v4s which are beyond me, but I get a few.

Monday Climbing. It was supposed to be my weekly lesson. However, trains were broken so I ended up in different gym. I started off really badly. However, after 45 minutes it started to improve, and by the end of 2.5 hours it has turned into a pretty good session. Tuesday Day off, so 12 mile walk and some light hang…

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I exercise for the long haul. Short term fluctuations are inevitable. I'm a climber. If it becomes clear it's a high gravity day, I'll try to come up with some drills to make sub-maximum effort climbing more interesting. For example, can I jump to every hold? Can i put a foot on every hand hold before moving on? Can I flow…

Saturday I shore dived Sheringham in Norfolk, doing the chalk reefs. It was lovely; 1.5 hour shallow bimble seeing flounders, crabs, squat lobster and gobies. Sunday Climbing. Good fun, I got some technically really difficult slab. 2 hour session.

I went climbing yesterday. It was decent, I got a thuggy overhanging v5. My main project turned into a v3, which took me at least 20 goes. I got it after 2.5 hours, by which time moving had become painful. So I called the session then.

I went diving over the weekend. I was trying a new configuration (side mount) and didn't have it set up well. I was head heavy, which caused me to lose my buoyancy on a 20m dive; and go to the surface far too quickly on starting the ascent. I went climbing yesterday. I was strong

I impressed my climbing coach yesterday. We were climbing slab. I got two climbs by crimping a single finger tip into a tiny divot. My coach said he thought it was quite impressive, although completely bonkers.

My digestive issues eased on Monday. I celebrated by going climbing for 3 hours. It was good, I was in surprisingly good form. My v5 project turned out to have the crux at the top, which was a bit annoying. I didn't get it. I went climbing on Tuesday. It was good. I flashed a v4, which was terrifying. I did a 1.5 km swim…

I spent the week diving Southern reefs (mainly) and a couple of wrecks in the Southern Red Sea. It was nice; the diving was stunning. I got some form of gastroenteritis. That added a random gambling element to the dives; pretty much all of us came down with the same thing; would anyone follow through and need a new…

I am a bit of an idiot, so I find being underground relaxing. Even if, objectively, it should be scary. I went climbing today. It was a bit of a mixed session, not too bad overall.

I went caving this weekend. We dug a hole. We got about 7 metres down. We are in limestone now, after a bunch of lome. So hopefully we are near new cave passage. There is a lot of construction work involved (e.g. putting up scaffolding to avoid the shaft collapsing.) ,It was really good fun; 8 hour days of hard manual…

Me on a walk post dive:

I gave up with my fitness tracker as I don't like constant monitoring. I took it caving on a very strenuous 8 hour trip; it thought I was sedentary for the duration and kept on being too tell me to exercise. I went diving this weekend. It was nice, although my dry suit neck seal failed at 28 metres depth, and I had a…

Saturday I got a couple of dives in. It was nice; sidemount is becoming easier.. Sunday The day started annoyingly. I had a delivery I stayed in to get. It turned out that the battery in my doorbell needed replacement, which meant I didn't get the delivery after all After fixing the doorbell, I felt tired and sluggis; and…

Sunday Caving. We couldn't initially find the cave we were after. So we spent a couple of hours walking down a stream looking for it. We were in the the middle of a fairly active stream, so it was hard going. The cave turned out to be a few kilometres upstream, so we went back to the car and tried again. It was 5 p.m. by…

My latest ambition: Do a really big caving trip, with at least 12 hours of hard caving. My longest so far has just only been 9 hours.

I went climbing a lot in the week. It was alright. I went caving today. We did Ogof Draenan in Wales. It was quality. The cave was stunningly pretty. We were running late, but managed to get to where were aiming in the cave (a pure white selenite sphere called the snowball ). It was, in total 8.5 hours (the approach to the…

Climbing. 2.5 hours. I concentrated on my anti-style, run and jump dynamic competition style boulders. It was good, I got a couple of v4s.

I did a 14 mike walk on Saturday, and then climbed for 3.5 hours. I had aimed for a rest day, and missed my aim by a lot. I had a couple of easy dives on Sunday to get more used to sidemount. I did my kit wrong on the first dive, which was quite uncomfortable as a result. It was good on the second dive.

On Wednesday, I swam 750 metres before breakfast, I went climbing in the evening. I stated off quite strongly, but ended completely pumped and barely capable of moving. It was a 3 hour session, which in retrospect may have been too long.

Climbing. We practiced dynos ,(jumping movements). It was fun, I was in form. I always find it interesting when I do them well; there momentum gives you a lot of time to grab the target hold

@DiscusTank5 The mud defeated my photographic ambitions. I went for a video camera in a dive case in a dry bag in a tackle bag. It was inadequate again the mud; here is the camera post trip. Here is a photo someone more competent took of the Hall of Thirty, the best bit.…

I went caving on Saturday. We did Otter Hole, a tidal cave which is probably the prettiest cave in the UK. There are two possible trips, between tides and through tides. We thought we had signed up for the longer through tide trip, but it actually turned out to be between tides, around 6 hours. The first 2 hours (and last…

I went climbing on Monday. It was a high gravity day. I went back to the same gym on Wednesday. It was fun, I got everything I fell off on Monday. Fot some reason, it was super friendly. I went clubbing on Thursday. It was good, I wasnt in stellar form but it wasn't too shabby.

Me emerging from a cave; A sting ray:

I haven't logged in ages. I went scuba diving in Galapagos. It was marvellous. We saw many scalloped hammerheads; a tiger shark; mola mola; turtles; sea lions; Galapagos sharks; silky sharks; mantas; sting rays; underwater iguanas; reef shark; dolphin; eagle rays and probably stuff I've forgotten. The only unpleasant bit…

A quick climb (2 hours). It was fun, I think I have improved a little recently.