Triple 8 newbies......... a kitchen.
Quote from: uptown on January 04, 2012, 10:39:08 amTriple 8 newbies......... a kitchen.And if you had to choose?
After recurrent failures for the last x years, it's time to change tack!1. Finish my Red Wall Link Up Project Not been2. 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. Err, no.3. Get a house that I can build a woody in. Yes! Needs a lot of work though4. Build a woody, and more crucially, use it Working on the persuasion5. Tick two problems from the last few years Aims For lists Yeah, right.6. Run a marathon Just survived the Manc Marathon, oh my God what shit weather7. Go to Font Due to Aim 3, this may be 20138. Do at least ten Munros and ten Wainwrights Nine Wainwrights and counting9. Stop drinking and get fit Still drinking, yum. Fittest I've been for years though, just not for climbing10. Read ten more books from the BBC Big Read top 100 Getting there
Post up my aims for 2012
1. Louis Armstrong int' cave - started trying it again 2 days ago. Start to undercuts is ok as is finish, need to learn the crux slap move and stop dicking around on long linkups2. Finish big 4 in Font - Got a bit of a shutdown on Big Golden when tired, not been on Tristesse3. Get to Magic Wood and destroy Body Count, NES pt1, Electric Boogie - Going in September4. Get no more points/speeding/parking tickets! Good so far, only been stopped once5. Climb something harder than 7C on grit - Not even tried, I prefer lime/sandstone/granite/choss6. Do some structured training instead of just relying on slowly getting better at climbing - started deadlifting/bicep work and crux replicas for helping achieve goal #17. Win the UKB FF! - I'd love it... just love it if I can not throw away the ~120 point lead!
Broken Sam and The Highlife
Onsight E5 on different rock types and onsight E4 consistently. (I prefer having routes to inspire me though Mortlock's Arete, The Golden Mile, Bloody Sunday, Great Wall, Supersonic, Calvary and Cardiac Arete are on the list). Not much trad mileage in yet, but feeling good for it.Do a really big and reasonably hard rock route somewhere, possibly Dolomites, e.g something on the Marmolada or the Comici Route. Trip to Dolomites plannedDon't piss about going to crap venues! So far, so good, but don't count chickens...I'm not too fussed on sport goals for next year, onsight F7b would be good and tick some classics, and I really should get to Yorkshire finally. 2 of them second go in Chorro, fairly happy with that, but should have boned down a bit harder really
Keeping mine simple1) Traverse Project No 1 - the boulder problem. Will resume attempts once seeping stops in spring.2) Traverse project No 2 - the sea level traverse. Will resume attempts when a rising tide, daylight, a week of dry weather, calm seas, warmer seas, non-greasiness and me being fit enough to do it coincide. This didn't happen last year or the year before
Much the same as last year:font 7C - many candidates yes, found one that succumbedF8a - actually going to train for it this year. training was going well then paused for 3 months, picking it up again now. With grit season overrunning, lime season may have to run into oct/nov/dec. onsight 7a/+ consistently, E4 - Resurrection and Flaky Wall still ultimate aims & decent size/difficulty/remoteness mountain route ropes still in hibernation
50 8s onsight/flash (all time)8a onsight in the UK5 or more 8a+ onsights (all time)FabelitaMecca ExtensionKaabahTrue North8c in France or USA (depending on summer trip) 20 8b (all time) 12 8b+ (all time) 8A that’s actually a boulder8A+Staminaband reverse
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