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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.

I finished my scuba course. We only had one skill left to tick off (a blindfolded shutdown, which was actually a doddle.) So I am now a qualified sidemount diver with shiny kit; it worked well and hopefully I can use it soon. I went for a climb afterwards. I started of really badly, finding a v2 in my warm up I couldn't…

I did Day 1 of a scuba course. I am learning sidemount. It went alright. The set trimmed very nicely; I did the skills well enough (including taking tanks off and putting them back on.)

Climbing again. An odd session, I became obsessed with a powerful v4 slab. I got it early on with a French start, and the quite quickly worked out how to do the start. (You are supposed to be completely still on the starting holds; a French start is when one is dynamic.) However, putting it all together took a while. I…

I went climbing yesterday. I was in very good form. I flashed a v4, and got two other v4s as well. Today, I swam a kilometer, did some walking, and destroyed the brambles which were talking over my garden. (I don't often garden, so this took 4 hours as they were quite extensive.)

I had a couple of days off exercise, as I picked up a cold. I went climbing today in a 3.5 hour session. It was good fun, I was in form. I tried loads of dynos, and actually got all but one one them. Jumping is fun. I am terrible at it, but I seem to be quite good at committing to it.

I haven't logged for a while. I went scuba diving over the weekend. Saturday was a highlight; we got a shed load of scallops in. We intended to barbecue them, but it was raining so we pan fried them. The wreck on Sunday only had one metre's visibility. I went climbing on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 4…

Sunday was another five. It was nice; a drift for 45 minutes at 22 minutes with about 5vmetres visibility. Here is me waiting for divers in the other wave. Today was climbing, 3 hours. I spent my time projecting a v5 which is close to going.

Wednesday was climbing. I was pretty good (by my standards). On Thursday, I lifted, doing bench, deadlift, hangboard and loads of pull-ups(probably around 100 across sets. Some were weighted, some used band assistance to practice one armers.) Today, I went diving. We aimed for10 a.m. ropes off. But the boat was broken, so…

This is more of a maxi-goal than a min-goal, but I'm making vague efforts to be able to do a 1-arm pull-up. I can do a set of 5 with the assistance of a big resistance band; my plan if to up the reps and then reduce the size of the band. I have no confidence of success, but without trying I'll never know.

I spent the weekend learning caving techniques, such as how to bolt rock; how to move big rocks out of the way (violence is the answer); and how to survey. There was rescue training on the Sunday, but Joe and I got bored so did a quick trip to Slaughter Stream. It's an interesting cave; it's not got not many formations but…