metromonday

Drove to Metro with Avi; climbed with Avi twice, once with Mike, later switched to Alice. Randy & and his pal were around also. Christie and Jason took the intro course. zomg, so much climbing.

Got in around 6:30, and didn't leave til close. Gotta love it!

5.9. pink one near the 5.8 yellow. unsuccessful, sadly. made it maybe halfway up before giving up.

5.9. topsy turvy. completed practically clean, with avi's encouragement.

5.8. hunter green. almost clean. i think i couldn't do this one last time i tried it.

5.8. the yellow one previously mentioned. pretty tough, but i made it up with some stops along the way.

5.9-. short green one. made it most of the way up, but couldn't quite finish. hopped on the 5.8 pink one right next to it to finish.

5.8-. pink. small handholds. didn't climb clean, but was funfunfun.

5.8+. pink. one i've done before. still couldn't do cleanly, but eff that shit.

5.8. red. cript ticket. after watching alice do this one, it's apparent that i've been doing it wrong... but, yet, i successfully climb it every time and love it, and it's my favorite route? gotta do what you gotta do.

5.9+. pink? or maybe white? the route that avi started the day on is the one i finished on. couldn't get past the place he got stuck... but maybe if it weren't the end of the day?!

And, my end-of-the-day pull-up is getting SO CLOSE to happening. I'm perhaps just as excited about that as I am about being on the verge of 5.9. Well, I guess since I've climbed a 5.9, that means I'm no longer "on the verge"... but still... I'm not quite confident that I've hit my goal of climbing 5.9 before the end of the year.

Also, should've effin' applied for the Red Rocks trip..

Also, after returning home, I headed out again to meet up with Randy, Rosemary, Mike, Avi, and their two other friends to go sledding at Danehy Park. Flipping awesome.

Bike route: 8 miles.

Walking in Winter Wonderland

Due to the #snowpocalypse, Boston got about a foot of snow. Being that people are out of town or otherwise busy, I went for a long walk through Boston.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3373940

8.9 miles, 4 hours, and one break at a used book store to purchase "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk, "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce, something by Kafka, and another book too, I think.

metromonday

This will start getting a little repetitive, but I don't care...

Hit Metro again with Christianne. Brendan showed up simultaneously, as did Avi, Mike, and Randy, so we had quite the crowd!

Brendan and Christianne wanted to get some lead climbing in, so Avi and I hit the climbs together first...

5.7+ yellow overhangy one (clean)

5.8 dark green, right beside yellow overhangy one on the back wall (not clean...)

5.8+ yellow, short route in middle of the short wall (first time finishing... couldn't do it last time I tried!!! still not clean, of course)

Brendan bailed due to his wrist injury, so I swapped out and finished climbing with Christianne.

5.8 super fun red route

5.10a... Christianne made me do this... I cheated/sucked my way up...

5.8+ pink route (not clean. tired.)

Mostly 5.8s now, getting better at 5.8+s. 5.9s by the end of the month for sure. :-)