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#50 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:57:00 am
... it's amazing how much lighter you can get than you think!
You just have to believe... And spend a large amount of time cold and hungry.

You make it sound so appealing!

There's another reason on the long list of why I won't climb 9a.

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#51 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 08:37:45 am
Most 'normal' girls I've known don't want to go out with a skeleton. It makes them feel fat for one. Which is probably why 3-9 has never had a girlfriend .

My Mrs often bends my ear for being too skinny (even though I'm really not by sport climber standards).  She'd much rather I had a rugby player's physique.  Me telling her that this wouldn't be conducive to climbing up random bits of rock doesn't seem to carry much, er, weight.

I got back to my pre-injury weight, a couple months ago (75kg from *cough*93kg). Constantly being accused of being "gaunt". Frankly, I think I'm still quite large (and always have been, for a climber).


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#52 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 09:45:29 am
Most 'normal' girls I've known don't want to go out with a skeleton. It makes them feel fat for one. Which is probably why 3-9 has never had a girlfriend .


I always thought that was my personality and lack of personal hygiene!

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#53 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 10:57:22 am
You should get yourself down to the groomers for a spruce-up, who knows where it might lead!:


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#54 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 11:05:43 am
Phwoar.

Kindly dont post pics of semi-naked babes on here - i'll get fired!

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#55 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 11:11:10 am
Phwoar.

Kindly dont post pics of semi-naked babes on here - i'll get fired!

Your aims the other year make a lot more sense now 'get a bitch, dump a bitch'

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#56 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 12:05:03 pm

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#57 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 04:59:20 pm
3-9 doesn't drink, is much younger and goes to bed at 8.30 but has only climbed one grade harder than shark  :-\

I do at least 10 of one grade before trying the next. Plus I did my route in fewer days that Shark's had years on the oak. So my bedtime and abstinence counts for something?!
On the grand scheme of things you're both shit (as am I, but I eat and drink what I like). Is it really worth it?

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#58 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 05:05:29 pm
3-9 doesn't drink, is much younger and goes to bed at 8.30 but has only climbed one grade harder than shark  :-\

I do at least 10 of one grade before trying the next. Plus I did my route in fewer days that Shark's had years on the oak. So my bedtime and abstinence counts for something?!
On the grand scheme of things you're both shit (as am I, but I eat and drink what I like). Is it really worth it?

Not for 8b no  :lol:

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#59 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 05:09:01 pm
3-9 doesn't drink, is much younger and goes to bed at 8.30 but has only climbed one grade harder than shark  :-\

I do at least 10 of one grade before trying the next. Plus I did my route in fewer days that Shark's had years on the oak. So my bedtime and abstinence counts for something?!
On the grand scheme of things you're both shit (as am I, but I eat and drink what I like). Is it really worth it?

Not for 8b no  :lol:

Especially some skanky eliminate at Cheddar that no one cares about

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#60 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 05:10:22 pm
Not wrong Shark. At least you're failing on a decent route.

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#61 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 05:37:47 pm

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#62 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 05:52:53 pm
3-9 doesn't drink, is much younger and goes to bed at 8.30 but has only climbed one grade harder than shark  :-\

I do at least 10 of one grade before trying the next. Plus I did my route in fewer days that Shark's had years on the oak. So my bedtime and abstinence counts for something?!
On the grand scheme of things you're both shit (as am I, but I eat and drink what I like). Is it really worth it?

Not for 8b no  :lol:

Especially some skanky eliminate at Cheddar that no one cares about

Skanky eliminates are all I care about. Extended boulder problems on pristine 80m crags are so last year.

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#63 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 06:02:23 pm
Is it really worth it?

Always.
Yeah but you're good enough to be a big fish in a small pond, plus you have a bottomless pot of time and money to regularly go do fun shit with. Course it's bloody worth sacrificing a few cakes and beer for, for you!

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#64 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:01:06 pm
Bloody aristocrats .

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#65 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:05:03 pm
Is it really worth it?

Always.
Yeah but you're good enough to be a big fish in a small pond, plus you have a bottomless pot of time and money to regularly go do fun shit with. Course it's bloody worth sacrificing a few cakes and beer for, for you!

I don't quite see the difference between making sacrifices to climb 8b or to climb 9a. Surely they are both just arbitrary personal challenges with success being just as sweet for the respective climbers.

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#66 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:06:53 pm
Bloody aristocrats .

So, which one is Shark?




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#67 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:14:46 pm
The fat one on the left!

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#68 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:15:56 pm
Is it really worth it?

Always.
Yeah but you're good enough to be a big fish in a small pond, plus you have a bottomless pot of time and money to regularly go do fun shit with. Course it's bloody worth sacrificing a few cakes and beer for, for you!

I don't quite see the difference between making sacrifices to climb 8b or to climb 9a. Surely they are both just arbitrary personal challenges with success being just as sweet for the respective climbers.

Spot on! I decided I wanted to do the next redpoint number and that was the only local one that was a) actually the given grade and b) at a crag with reliable conditions which I could get belays at reliably.

Of course I don't think 8b is a big number, but the Oak appears to be a big deal objective for Shark, so why not quit alcohol? One man's 7a is another man's 8a etc.

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#69 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 07:16:29 pm
Hey, I've got a real job starting in Jan! And I did work hard in my PhD at least for 3 months whilst I was writing up and injured anyway

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#70 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 11:20:51 pm
Bloody aristocrats .

So, which one is Shark?



Well the Shark is a pussy so you can all guess.

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#71 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 13, 2016, 11:25:46 pm
Bloody aristocrats .

So, which one is Shark?



Well the Shark is a pussy so you can all guess.

The fat one on the right?

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#72 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 25, 2016, 06:05:57 pm
so why not quit alcohol? One man's 7a is another man's 8a etc.
I'm not arguing with your reasoning, yet plenty of extremely high standard athletes are not teetotal. Paula Radcliffe said in an interview that she has a glass of wine every night. She wasn't shit at running 26.2miles quicker than anyone else.

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#73 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 25, 2016, 06:36:52 pm
Possibly, she could certainly run, but... Does that disprove the contention she could have run faster without drink? :-\

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#74 Re: Why Shark is fat
December 25, 2016, 09:09:58 pm
so why not quit alcohol? One man's 7a is another man's 8a etc.
I'm not arguing with your reasoning, yet plenty of extremely high standard athletes are not teetotal. Paula Radcliffe said in an interview that she has a glass of wine every night. She wasn't shit at running 26.2miles quicker than anyone else.

Paula Radcliffe didn't seem to have any issue maintaining her 'marathoning weight', though?

 

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