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Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 07:43:42 pm
The previous lists:
Aims for 2008
Aims for 2009
Aims for 2010
Aims for 2011
Aims for 2012

Let's be having them:

Bouldering:
Consolidate at 7b
Do a 7b+
Maybe do a 7c?!

Trad:
At least attempt to do some E3s and E4s.
If not that then at least feel like I'm reaching my potential!
Get out more

Fiddle:
Go to the session more
Play Cooley's Reel at the session without falling off the back

Life:
Buy house
More reading, less TV
« Last Edit: December 31, 2012, 08:56:42 pm by thesiger, Reason: added previous aims for\'s »

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#1 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 07:51:19 pm
get rid of tendonitis and nerve pain and get a 7c!!  :weakbench:

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#2 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 08:08:59 pm
Start bouldering again, having done pretty much nothing in 2012. Start and see through to the end the insanity workout in January. Keep off the booze for all of January and generally keep it in control for the rest of my life. Get my business established and sort my finances out. Get at least one decent holiday booked and also make it to Font for the first time (could be one and the same!) Grow my hair again and stop looking like a thug. Finish the remaining jobs on the house. Get established doing regular DJ sets in and around Keswick. All in all, should be easy....... :-\

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#3 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 08:19:21 pm
Font 7C blocs
8b redpoint
8a onsight
Go to bed early every night

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#4 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 08:33:03 pm
Font 7C blocs
8b redpoint
8a onsight
Go to bed early every night

You given up on bitches? (Hence the early nights!)

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#5 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 08:36:14 pm
I vaguely recall an acronym that reminds you how to set useful goals, SMART or something. The first two are Specific and Measurable, but I forget the rest. =)

Anyway...here's mine:

- Stay injury free.
- Run 3 times a week
- Get back to and maintain fighting weight of 165lbs by 1st March.
- Climb 2 7A+ from my ticklist by June
- Climb 4 7A from my ticklist by June
- Climb in at least 2 new places (likely: Mammoth alpine bouldering areas, new(er) Tahoe bouldering areas like Sugar Pine).
- Visit UK / family and friends in N Wales and get some climbing in there during the Summer.
- placeholder item for whatever I forgot


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#6 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 08:52:18 pm
Smart- simple manageable attainable realistic within a Time limit.

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#7 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 10:53:01 pm

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You given up on bitches? (Hence the early nights!)
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Yeah - goals should be attainable! Snakes with tits anyway, like you always say.

Might work towards a restraining order or something/work on expanding my Katy W shrine

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#8 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 11:21:27 pm
Sport Climb F8b+ (Mecca most likely).
Boulder V12 (On limestone or trip abroad in Summer).
Meet one of these goals whilst still 19 .
Start doing structured training and avoid injury/illness.

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#9 Re: Aims for 2013
December 30, 2012, 11:52:50 pm
Hopefully by writing them down I may try a bit harder to achieve them, need to pull my finger and stop bumbling!
...Plus I love writing lists

Boulder 7c (that's undisputed/uncontroversial...)
Boulder 7c+

Yorkshireman @ Kyloe In
Awooga @ Simonside
County Ethics @ Back Bowden

Trip to Switzerland
Trip to North Wales
Trip to Torridion

Train consistently for more than 2 weeks  :goodidea:

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#10 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 07:29:07 am
1. Wales: organise successful München DAV Wales Trip. Now apparently a DAV / Karabiner MC / Fell & Rock combined meet, so the hut booking secretary informs me. The more the merrier. Climb E2 (Strand / Left Wall / Daisy / Dervish)

2. Frankenjura: as regularly as possible. More than this year's two visits. Primary obstacle here is Alps-obsessed partners.

3. Dolomites(*): two or more big alpine rock routes

(* or Kaisergebirge, Oberreintal etc. etc. Dolomites just happens to be my favourite of the alpine rock areas I've visited so far)
« Last Edit: December 31, 2012, 07:34:35 am by Muenchener »

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#11 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 09:42:59 am
I don't have many specific aims apart from a new route on the Orme (should go if there's enough dry weather).

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#12 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 09:44:38 am
The same as last year with two minor teaks.


1. Finish my Red Wall Link Up Project
2. Boulder 7c. I think the Red Wall project will be this grade, so that is excluded.  It'd be nice to do a 7C that doesn't instantly get downgraded too.
3. Reacquaint myself with Silverdale after a year of not visiting, plus Not Bad Dave/ Vitruvian Man/ Deal in Pain/ Aeon (or various other things I've tried and never ticked.
4. Build a woody, and more crucially, use it
5. Tick two problems from the last few years Aims For lists
6. Run another marathon or two
7. Go to Font
8. Do at least twenty new Wainwrights
9. 7b in Font
10. Read ten more books from the BBC Big Read top 100

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#13 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 10:12:19 am
1. Do the Knock, Nosferatu, No More Excuses and Tracka'thacat (dont deck on wings)
1a. Boulder 7b - Monochrome, My Apple, PowerHumps
2. 7c sport RP - Obsene Gesture/Toilet, New Dawn, Let the tripe increase etc
3. Onsight a mega 7a/+ home or abroad
4. Trad E3/4 - Memory Lane, Adjudicator Wall, Flaky Wall, Pembroke
5. Get to Pembroke and Catalunya
6. Get out of flat into house
7. Develop girlfriend holiday into DWS trip to Mallorca (wheels in motion)
8. Move out of photograhic punterdom and make longer/better videos throughout year
9. If it rains for another month scrap all the above and leave the sinking kingdom


 :beer2: Happy New Year UKB

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#14 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 10:35:24 am
1. complete my 12 week training plan without getting horribly injured or slacking off.
2. Climb Louis Armstrong.
3. Climb Red Baron at Shipley. (Standup)
4. Double body weight deadlift.

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#15 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 10:43:22 am
Actually be a climber.

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#16 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 10:58:46 am
Actually be a climber.

The weathers not helped for the last 6 months!

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#17 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 11:03:04 am
Trad
Solid E2
Some E3
Sport
Lead 7b
solid 6c onsight
Bouldering
7A

Specific stuff:
Top out the cheif
The grand Wall - Squamish by best possible style
Pebble Wall
Flying arête
Crucific traverse and low
Climb at gogarth

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#18 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 11:22:51 am
do some more 8A's (that are more than just one move)
Some 8A+ maybe 8B (we'll see)
Sport 8b (if I bother to do any)
Trad..... hell no
Guess thats about it no massively specifics

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#19 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 11:30:57 am

Snakes with tits anyway

As charming as ever.

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#20 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 11:55:32 am
Arrive in Font in Feb uninjured...
Get down below 14 stone and remain under 14 stone...
Boulder on grit more...
Get local projects done before Andy Popp  ;)

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#21 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 11:56:32 am
Best get on this bandwagon while it's rolling:

8a - woulda, shoulda, coulda got Call of Nature if weather and partners hadn't been so fickle this year. Be looking to get it done early and move on to Chimes, Powerplant, Roof Warrior, Raindogs, Statement depending what dries and how many away-days I can wangle.

more E4s, ultimately Flaky Wall & Resurrection

Another 7C, stop just talking about it and give Brad Pit a good go. Revisit Tetris

try to be strong and fit (relatively) rather than just one or the other
couple (or more) of Wales trips
boulder somewhere in Yorkshire other than the cliff (I know, I know, strike me down)
clear the garage and build my board at last

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#22 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 12:01:34 pm
Mine are really a repeat of last year's...

Onsight E4 consistently. Hardly got on any last year, and chose bad ones when I did. This also involves rocking up to the crag with routes in mind and being motivated to go for it.
Onsight a couple of proper E5s.

Get on a Peak 8a that I'm motivated to do. E.g. Unleashing.
Flash 7b.

3 Font 7a+ and 1 7B.

Use fingerboard at least twice a week over the winter.

Money and time dependent it would be good to get some big routes done in Yosemite/Dolomites/Verdon or similar, at the expense of the other goals, but we'll see!

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#23 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 12:30:36 pm
Consolidate at 7C. Snatch and Great White should help this, I just need to hold onto jugs....
Get my first 7C+ and do more of the grade (Rock Atrocity wobbly block, lou ferrino I'm most keen for) Need suggestions for good bloc style 7C+'s in Wales and ze peak.
Trad.... hhmm... Nah.
Do more highballing! Art nouveau, Tierdrop, Narcissus, Chip Shop Brawl, Shine On (With snow)
Sport.... hhmmm.... maybe, do something respectable at a crag I like or a route I actually enjoy or even just try to redpoint something.
Big aim: Font 8A.... Joker, Diesel Power, Pools of Bethasda (8A+ but looks amazing), Careless Torque  ::)
Actually do some training to complete the last aim.

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#24 Re: Aims for 2013
December 31, 2012, 12:34:25 pm
Get my first 7C+ and do more of the grade (Rock Atrocity wobbly block, lou ferrino I'm most keen for) Need suggestions for good bloc style 7C+'s in ze peak.

If it were me I'd be looking at Western Eyes, Low Rider, Golden Egg or River of Life

 

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