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#7625 Re: YYFY!!!
October 06, 2021, 08:03:35 pm
Congratulations. I bet that feels sweet after so many years.

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#7626 Re: YYFY!!!
October 06, 2021, 09:14:10 pm
Nice one Mr Tyson, always good to come back after a period of injury.

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#7627 Re: YYFY!!!
October 06, 2021, 10:16:37 pm
Cheers folks. It is nice to feel like there might be a chance I can actually get climbing again, and enjoy it without too much worry about injury (the fear will still be there, it’ll make me be careful hopefully).

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#7628 Re: YYFY!!!
October 07, 2021, 07:55:38 am
Getting out of bed in the morning is not fun, getting up off the floor after playing with the kids requires planning, everything feels like hard work!

What a drag it is getting old. Especially if you are still doing a physically demanding job.

Anyway, welcome back oh prodigal one.

I find after a comeback from no climbing for a bit that within a few weeks I will be climbing thinking it's going OK, then mid session any perfomance just drops off a cliff, be prepared if happens and don't try to thrash on, accept it and regroup.

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#7629 Re: YYFY!!!
October 07, 2021, 09:21:46 am

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"getting up off the floor after playing with the kids requires planning"

Lovely turn of phrase .. actually lol'd..   I know the feeling all to well at the moment.  First half of the year was going really well, getting loads done.. and since August, its just gone to shit.  Just not getting out for one reason or another then cold on top of cold, then tore my hamstring in my knee again on my first day out  bouldering in a while and now Covid... So feel like I've been hit by a bus..

However, once I'm out of isolation and feeling a bit better, the road begins and I'm hoping for a similar YYFY moment of going to the wall for the first time since covid began and pottering on really easy stuff.  Keep it up.. you'll soon be back cranking, but take it slow to avoid injury!!

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#7630 Re: YYFY!!!
October 07, 2021, 09:28:37 am
The best thing about coming back from injury is that you’re just on your own path and comparisons to what other climbers are doing are irrelevant.

Come on Mike!

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#7631 Re: YYFY!!!
October 07, 2021, 10:48:30 am
The best thing about coming back from injury is that you’re just on your own path and comparisons to what other climbers are doing are irrelevant.

So true.. I used to compare myself to my peers.. ego was ever present.  Not really at all these days, just set personal goals.  I appear to have grown up!

(I'm not actually that good at achieving my own goals though).

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#7632 Re: YYFY!!!
October 07, 2021, 11:41:55 am
getting up off the floor after playing with the kids requires planning,
Not to talk about sitting on the floor!
Great news, eyes on the prize and take it easy.

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#7633 Re: YYFY!!!
October 07, 2021, 02:59:41 pm
The best thing about coming back from injury is that you’re just on your own path and comparisons to what other climbers are doing are irrelevant.

So true.. I used to compare myself to my peers.. ego was ever present.  Not really at all these days, just set personal goals.  I appear to have grown up!


Also, forget thinking about what you used to be able to do, you've had a complete reset. Avoiding venues you used to have wired are good for this.

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#7634 Re: YYFY!!!
October 09, 2021, 03:51:51 pm
Managed my first 7C today (Launch Control at Kilnsey) after punting off the top twice yesterday! Well psyched. Got very close on a 7B+ next to it which I’m keen to go back for.

I’ve achieved parity in my sport and Boulder grades now  :2thumbsup:

Been enjoying the quick sessions recently. Warm up on the board at home and, if feeling strong, going out and just getting straight on it.

Took the dog for a 5 mile walk/run on the bridleway out of kilnsey village after too. First time doing any running for quite a while so happy that my knee held out fine.

Met a nice guy at Kilnsey too who lives a few mins walk from me - will be good to have company for board sessions over winter. Really good day.

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#7635 Re: YYFY!!!
October 12, 2021, 08:40:31 am
Seeing it got ignored on Power Club I'll blow my trumpet here. first 50km Ultra done, 5:12:42. Weather from good to shite, trails from glorious to fucking awful. Was just glad to make it to the start after 4 attempts to do one. 

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#7636 Re: YYFY!!!
October 12, 2021, 10:24:23 am
Excellent.
I have no clue about ultra’s, but get the sense that completing the thing is as much the goal as any specific time?
Having said that, was the time where you were aiming, assuming you were?
Fine effort.

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#7637 Re: YYFY!!!
October 12, 2021, 10:33:54 am
Cheers Nik. It's a very different vibe to any road marathons or HMs I've gone. I'm sure the top of field are gunning for PBs and course records, but most are pretty friendly and chatty and just out for a challenge and getting it done.

5:30 to 6 as a worst case, 5:00 to 5:30 as a "be happy with" and under 5 as a stretch. First half went fine and 5 looked like maybe manageable, but some nasty hills and tricky trails in the second half, plus it started pissing down, and got pretty muddy, and ankle got sore for the last section, so happy with what I managed.

But got Dava Way 50km in late November, meant to be a faster course. (however might sack it off completely if weather in Speyside looks really shit).     

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#7638 Re: YYFY!!!
October 12, 2021, 10:38:04 am

Effort.

I genuinely find the thought of such things far more off putting than say, Indian face, or grotty peak district caving diving.

Just pure lunacy. 

"Tha must be crackers"

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#7639 Re: YYFY!!!
October 13, 2021, 08:42:27 am
It's just putting in front of the other. And eating. Someone described ultras as a moving picnic.

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#7640 Re: YYFY!!!
October 13, 2021, 10:00:21 am
Nice one Chris, for some reason I thought you'd already done a few of these!

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#7641 Re: YYFY!!!
October 13, 2021, 10:05:24 am
Cheers. I've done Ring of Steall twice, but that's "only" 29km distance (but with with 2700m vert). I'll do another ultra over that again any day.


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#7642 Re: YYFY!!!
October 13, 2021, 10:20:09 am
I was ruined after walking the ring of steall

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#7643 Re: YYFY!!!
October 13, 2021, 10:23:54 am
The standard way? The race starts from Kinlochleven, does Devil's Ridge to Glen Nevis, up past Steall Falls then rest of the ring and back down. I had DOMS for a solid week.

Hats off to Reeve for doing the Glencoe Skyline that year, and richiebetts for doing it this year.

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#7644 Re: YYFY!!!
October 13, 2021, 10:28:43 am
 Yeah, the easy way. Sounds cool!

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#7645 Re: YYFY!!!
November 15, 2021, 10:24:54 am
Much to my surprise, and delight, on Friday I received a polling card for the Copenhagen municipal elections happening tomorrow. Voting in another country feels like a rather novel and exciting experience. And given PR and the range of parties I might even get to a vote for a party that represents my politics.

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#7646 Re: YYFY!!!
November 15, 2021, 11:02:54 am
Glad to hear that Denmark has this sorted with customary efficiency. In France I have to demand the registration on the rolls for EU and municipal elections myself.

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#7647 Re: YYFY!!!
November 29, 2021, 10:04:11 pm
I touched my toes just now.  ;D

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#7648 Re: YYFY!!!
November 30, 2021, 07:51:38 am
I touched my toes just now.  ;D

Brilliant!

I always wonder how you are recovering. I know you don’t “have a choice” as it were, but I am always seriously impressed by people who don’t just give up after such major set backs in life. You and Toby both seem, from my limited vantage point, to have really put the effort in, when you both might just as easily settled into a very different, darker, reality, with quite some justification.

I just received my first salary in a decade and an appointment with the Tailor, next Wednesday, to be fitted for No.1s and Mess Undress, so despite Covid leaving me, mostly, sat on the couch; I finally feel like a real Officer in Her Majesty’s Service.
I did spend an hour or so in a gas chamber, last week, wearing a blazer, tie and Gas-mask, jogging on the spot or jumping up and down, which felt about as “Officer” as you can get…

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#7649 Re: YYFY!!!
November 30, 2021, 08:30:27 am
Nice one Robocheque  :smirk:

 

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