[Paul B]

Be good to see that video. There's not enough footage of Roddie in his prime and in full flow...

I'll need to borrow a HV-series camera or suchlike as it's on MiniDV... Lagers? I'd give you my tapes but god knows what you might see 

[Ru]

It was like this stuff Nibs, but I've no idea if it was 5mm or 6mm - around that though. For the purposes of your re-creation, conditions were ok, it was quite cold.

[Three Nine]

Be good to see that video. There's not enough footage of Roddie in his prime and in full flow...

I'll need to borrow a HV-series camera or suchlike as it's on MiniDV... Lagers? I'd give you my tapes but god knows what you might see 

If its a vid of Nat by herself, could I have a copy? If its starring you as well then please destroy for the good of humanity.

[Fiend]

I do have some trim like that I could send over, but I checked and it's only just 5mm, sorry Nibs.

[Nibile]

Cheers everyone.
Thanks for finding me a new way to spend the rest of the Winter!

[comPiler]

CWIF 2015
9 March 2015, 11:09 am

Weight: 9st 10lbs (ground zero)

Bottles of Pepsi Max: 1

Finger Tendon Integrity (FTI): 0.78

Every year I write an entry about the CWIF. I don't really know why I bother, since you could basically cut and paste the one from the previous year. Great problems, blah, blah, cool atmosphere blah, blah, insert excuses, very psyched, watch out for me in the BBCs, etc, etc. I always have a great time at the comp, and always do terribly due to a lack of flexibility/talent/skin, but never actually enter the BBCs because I always go climbing the Sunday after the CWIF and get horribly injured.

I don't know what to write this year.

For a start, I'm not sure I did that terribly. Yes, I came way down the rankings, and Vladimir Putin has as much chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize as I did of getting to the semi-finals, but for once I didn't fall off all the easy problems. Even my flexibility didn't let me down too badly, since I have discovered the miracle of squats. In all honesty I wasn't fit enough for 30 problems in an afternoon, and I did about as well as I could have hoped. I even achieved my lifetime's dream of beating Southern England's Nicest Climber, Gavin Symmonds - a pyrrhic victory given the amount he's been climbing this year, but I'll take it!

Also, since my wife insisted on a strict "no climbing after comps" rule, my battered old frame is moderately intact, although the RH middle finger which gave me so much trouble last year is grumbling ominously today. Thankfully I had scheduled in a couple of easy weeks before Rainshadow training starts in earnest. With a following wind, and a bit of sense, I might get to enter the BBCs this July after all...

And so the comp season is over. The endurance training is about to start, and today I begin the unpleasant and unwelcome campaign to get down to fighting weight. Let's see what the spring brings!

Source: The Spherical Cow

[petejh]

CWIF 2015

Weight: 9st 10lbs (ground zero)

... and today I begin the unpleasant and unwelcome campaign to get down to fighting weight.
Source: The Spherical Cow

Ha! I'm imagining office-bound 12 stone sport climbers all over the land reading this and raging!
'Hate the game not the playa'

[Stu Littlefair]

Not 5'6" ones I imagkne

[Wood FT]

Not 5'6" ones I imagkne

that'll be me then

[Nibile]

I'm 172 cm tall so 5'6", but I'm quite heavier than you Stu!
65 kg should be 10,3 stones. How much weight are you going to drop?

[Duma]

172cm = 6'8" lore...

[andy_e]

6'6" is ~2m... 172 cm is 5'7.7".

Edit: guessing Duma mistyped. Sorry for the dimensional pendantry!

[jwi]

172cm = 6'8" lore...

5'8".

But ditch the imperial units.

[Nibile]

I just used an online converter...
 

[a dense loner]

You've got a bit of muscle nibs, stu was mostly fat on Saturday. Lot of weight to lose there I reckon

[Doylo]

Not to mention a sizeable Italian sausage.

[abarro81]

Stu's a fatty, he's got loads to lose

[Stu Littlefair]

So I'm 167cm and 62.5 kg for you metric heads out there.  I figure it's got to be jelly, because jam just don't shake like that.

I'm only looking to lose about 1-1.5 kg, which takes me nowhere near Megos territory who is 173cm and 57kg. 

I know from experience that losing any more weight makes me too unhappy to climb; most of the time I'm pretty happy in my current slightly podgy form but Rainshadow is going to require a bit of sacrifice, sadly.

[Doylo]

I'd keep it on until you've tried it a bit (slight short term misery perhaps). Then drop and boom the route will feel easier  . That's my strategy this year anyway, got to save up the impact.

[Stu Littlefair]

I like your style, but I'm camping up there in a few weeks for some early season sessions on the route, and I want to get a fairly accurate gauge for how much work needs doing. Hence I want to be in decent shape for that week. After that I'll pile it back on until the autumn. I hate being light.

[Doylo]

Furry muff.

[petejh]

I'm only looking to lose about 1-1.5 kg, which takes me nowhere near Megos territory who is 173cm and 57kg. 

Christ, that's borderline cheating.

[Sasquatch]

Yeah, he's quite skinny.  I think my legs weigh as much as his whole body.  I need helium filled tights. 

[moose]

I'm only looking to lose about 1-1.5 kg, which takes me nowhere near Megos territory who is 173cm and 57kg. 

My weight varies by that throughout the week (always measured first thing every morning, before any eating / drinking).  So you've no need for any dieting - just try to co-ordinate your bowels with red-pointing sessions - I bet there's an app for it somewhere!

[Nibile]

You're a bunch of funny mofos, both in Imperial and metric units.