I feel like i am going to have to do more than 2 hours 2 nights per week to be a better climber. I said i was going to start doing laps and that never happened. I need to come home from the climbing gym with limp arms and hands that couldn’t grip a sponge.
This week i lead a 10- but it wore me right out. did a variety of 5.11 routes which were awfully tough, though it almost seems like someone is underrating stuff. Hard to say.
Short version: hot water tank burst, fortunately i was home at the time and it did not spray everywhere. Gave me an excuse to pull some grimey carpet i have wanted to pull for many years. Screwed up the new plumping (used all sweat-connections instead of putting in unions) so when the screw fitting on the top of the units was not tight enough, i had to cut the pipe and start over. Took many attempts to get the new connections to not drip; once they were ok, now there is a leak in some of the old original piping (poor sweat connection!).
I lost over a day’s worth of work time which i will have to make up over the next week.
ps. Thanks again Rachel for the use of your shower!
Kitchen reno still in progress. It takes about 15 minutes to mount each cabinet door and i still have 5 uppers to do. Not sure about base cabinet drawers, but there are 4 sets of those, plus 5 base cabinet doors. Ok, so that’s 3 hours of work right there, sheesh. Then there is kick plate to cut and veneer (let’s estimate an hour for that), and a cooker hood to install (cannot imagine how long that will take, requires punching a hole in the wall and enclosing duct work). Other “major” tasks include flooring, trimwork (and thus painting), and changing some light fixtures. I think if i pick away at the cabinets this week then i can get the flooring done this weekend and then we’ll definitely feel like we’re almost done!
I think i am definitely back to the level i was at before christmas. It took a while but things are definitely going well now. Last thursday was just an all around excellent night. Lots of 5.11 routes, no issue, a couple of 5.12- routes, totally doable. Tonight i was expecting a poor poor showing since i was extremely tired and sore (budo was unforgiving yesterday), but the 5.11 routes, while strenuous, were very doable, only failed to complete what i expect is a 11++ or maybe 12- ? Tried leading a 12-, screwed it up on the bottom boulder and didn’t quite manage the 1st clip, but i think it is totally within reach in the next couple of sessions.