[andy_e]

I'm with Jim on this one

[shark]

Great effort Simon! Is your right arm generally stronger on those hangs/ one arm max hangs? For me its my left, and I'm right handed.

Thanks Jim. Yes always been much stronger on my right hanging and pulling. I’m right handed.

[dunnyg]

Handed in my thesis last week, ticked a lime 7B id failed on a year or so ago after putting up some new easy boulders up, and got a job offer the same day.

[gme]

Thanks Rob but I think you are being generous there on the left arm hang.

This time last year when I’d lost weight I was pleased to comfortably hang the top outermost slots. I was doing some campus boarding today and thought I’d check out whether I could hang the top slots and it felt piss. Did a bit more on the campus board and wondered how I’d feel on the bottom middle edge and went back upstairs and did it!

Did it again for the camera to prove to myself I wasn’t dreaming and because I regret not having filmed myself doing one armers when for a brief period I could do them. 

When I first read about Moffat doing one arm hangs on edges  BITD it seemed like an impossible feat. For the last 15 or so years I’ve dreamt of doing a one arm hang on a first joint edge. Now I’ve done it! It’s amazing to get a benchmark pure strength PB at 56.

Celebrating with a glass or three of red wine. Don’t judge me

Good effort on this, whilst i am not sure it translates to climbing its a good feat of strength. It is my years target to hang that edge for 5 secs. I started trying in lockdown with 12.5kg assistance and now down to 4kg on RH 6 on LH so feels possible.

Seems like every kid and his dog can do it these days, though 99% of them dont weigh the 83kg i do. I am avoiding the obvious short cut of loosing 4kg as its cheating.

[tomtom]

Handed in my thesis last week, ticked a lime 7B id failed on a year or so ago after putting up some new easy boulders up, and got a job offer the same day.

Thats lots of good news - ace. Well done on all accounts!

[andy_e]

Handed in my thesis last week, ticked a lime 7B id failed on a year or so ago after putting up some new easy boulders up, and got a job offer the same day.

Effort beast. What's the job?

[dunnyg]

Cheers! All been slowly working at for a while and came into fruition at the same time. I bought a swiss roll from pately bridge petrol station on the way home to celebrate.
Sent you a pm Andy

[gollum]

Handed in my thesis last week, ticked a lime 7B id failed on a year or so ago after putting up some new easy boulders up, and got a job offer the same day.

That’s a great treble and definitely deserves a Swiss roll in Pateley.

Well done.

[gollum]

Thanks Rob but I think you are being generous there on the left arm hang.

This time last year when I’d lost weight I was pleased to comfortably hang the top outermost slots. I was doing some campus boarding today and thought I’d check out whether I could hang the top slots and it felt piss. Did a bit more on the campus board and wondered how I’d feel on the bottom middle edge and went back upstairs and did it!

Did it again for the camera to prove to myself I wasn’t dreaming and because I regret not having filmed myself doing one armers when for a brief period I could do them. 

When I first read about Moffat doing one arm hangs on edges  BITD it seemed like an impossible feat. For the last 15 or so years I’ve dreamt of doing a one arm hang on a first joint edge. Now I’ve done it! It’s amazing to get a benchmark pure strength PB at 56.

Celebrating with a glass or three of red wine. Don’t judge me

Well done Simon. Inspiring stuff and a great thing to aim for.

[andy_e]

Sent you a pm Andy

Either you're ghosting me or PMs are borked again.

[dunnyg]

Take 2. Sent you a linkedin message instead.  Could be the PMs have taken a detour or could be user error.

[shark]

Good effort on this, whilst i am not sure it translates to climbing its a good feat of strength.

Thanks Gav. I think it still translates for me but less so than before as finger strength doesn’t seem to be so obviously limiting factor as it used to be. 

It is my years target to hang that edge for 5 secs. I started trying in lockdown with 12.5kg assistance and now down to 4kg on RH 6 on LH so feels possible.

Seems like every kid and his dog can do it these days, though 99% of them dont weigh the 83kg i do. I am avoiding the obvious short cut of loosing 4kg as its cheating.

Good luck but losing excess baggage also worth pursuing so I hope you are not using cheating as an excuse not to trim down!
To counteract you could alter your aim to hanging 83kg by adding weight holding a dumbbell that represents the bodyweight lost.

[gme]

Losing weight is the last thing I will do and only if I genuinely thought I was training as hard and as well as I can, and was close to something that was really hard and just needed that last piece of the jigsaw.
Don’t think I could say I have ever been in that position in my life.

[Oldmanmatt]

It has been almost a year of on again, off again negotiations, business case submissions, civil service cajoling and some pretty deep lows.

But, this evening, I signed my contract. I shall be rejoining HM Royal Navy as a Civilian Engineering Officer on the 28th of this month.

Finally a regular income.

Full job share, so 1:1 on a 30 day rotation, as well; so essentially I only work for six months every year.  Which will be odd for the kids, as I’ve only worked part time for the last decade. Off to do BSSC and BOEDICCA  in October, almost exactly 30 years after the last time the bastards tried to drown me...

[Duma]

Congrats OMM, hope it works out well.

[lagerstarfish]

Off to do BSSC.... in October

somehow I don't think this is Bishops Stortford Swimming Club

[Oldmanmatt]

Off to do BSSC.... in October

somehow I don't think this is Bishops Stortford Swimming Club

Nah. “Basic” sea survival course (the RN one isn’t exactly “basic”) and the other one (isn’t actually called that anymore, I don’t think) is the Damage control (Command and Control) in the simulators. They’re large, multi deck, ship mock-ups on hydraulic rams, that they flood and throw around, with us inside them, and of course the Fire Fighting units. They try quite hard to kill you, really.
Have to do the civilian versions every five years (I usually go to Warsash) but those are single day affairs, the RN have you do a 2 and a bit weeks of it every two years.
I’m actually planning on sending my kids to do the civi 4 day firefighting and sea survival courses, when they turn 16, because, man, what a rush! F#@k PGL or adventure centre holidays. Get your arse in a BA set and into a burning, three deck, metal box; battling and wrestling a high pressure hose.
That shit is Lit!

[Andy F]

I managed to not fall off a route at the Tor 
Oh, and my hardest tick for 2 years or so. Not hard in the grand scheme of things, but good to do something testing for a change.

[Wood FT]

I managed to not fall off a route at the Tor 
Oh, and my hardest tick for 2 years or so. Not hard in the grand scheme of things, but good to do something testing for a change.

Well done, Andy!

[TobyD]

I managed to not fall off a route at the Tor 
Oh, and my hardest tick for 2 years or so. Not hard in the grand scheme of things, but good to do something testing for a change.

Well done Andy.  You must have been happy with the day yesterday considering the Manchester City result!

[Andy F]

I managed to not fall off a route at the Tor 
Oh, and my hardest tick for 2 years or so. Not hard in the grand scheme of things, but good to do something testing for a change.

Well done Andy.  You must have been happy with the day yesterday considering the Manchester City result!

It did round the day off nicely 

[Fiend]

And tonight's result I think....

[andy_e]

Pfft, I manage not to fall off a route at the Tor every single day, simply by not going on them in the first place.

Good effort, which one?

[Andy F]

Pfft, I manage not to fall off a route at the Tor every single day, simply by not going on them in the first place.

Good effort, which one?

The one you get after a Turkey Phal

[James Malloch]

Got a good survey on a house last Friday and then the Mortgage offer through today. If the solicitor checks go through quickly then we might be Skipton Resident’s this time next month!

Psyched to move back closer to friends after a very nice, but enforced, stint in Cumbria due to Covid.

Bit of stability in one aspect of life would be nice again!