Climbing

On Saturday morning I headed out to the EICA at Ratho. It's been a while since I've done any (indoor) climbing so was a bit apprehensive about remembering what I was supposed to be doing. Luckly it all seemed to come flooding back and the rope/harness/belay stuff that I relearned for Mont Blanc carried over nicely. I think that I'm going to try and start heading along for some climbing once a week.

My lower body strength seems to be fine from all the cycling and walking but my upper body strength is rubbish. After about an hour and a half my arms and fingers where killing me. I don't really want to push my arms too much as I'm still worried about overworking my knackered right arm. Even 2 years after it was sliced and diced it still gets sore the first.

Bike Ride

It's been a while since I've been back and I have to say that I've not really been keeping things going as much as I had planned. Moving into a new flat and having my walking boots away getting repaired are two good excuses. Last Thursday I headed out for a cycle with Chris around Arthur's Seat. It's a route which we both used to do quite often but I've not been up in ages. Cycling to work and 'training' for Mont Blanc seemed to help and I think for the first time ever I made it up way ahead of Chris. Going up the hill didn't seem nearly as hard as I remember. I'd like to keep heading up there regularly because it's a nice route.

I'm also planning on going climbing with my brother out at EICA at Ratho at the weekend.