Training Log Archive: philm64

Kalydna climbing - onsighted 6c last route of trip. Well i had to really.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=66876

Desperately "thin" moves, and others really struggled to follow my lead. delighted. cruxes probably UK 6a moves. moved up a gear here.

Mike Dawes, brother of Johnny, just made it after me, & said I had "fingers like talons of steel". I'll take it. That's what 3 months of training does for you, plus staying as thin as possible. nb this doesn't make me anything like the climber that Ueli steck was, or Ifor's brother is. I'm still a weak punter, and scared as shit.

lost bank card, and also mislaid house keys on long overnight trip home. pathetic. tried to sleep in car. til i remembered where i'd put them.

C • Well I laughed 3

Kalynmos: Crap climbing near Grande grotta, did 3 routes then bagged the day off.

did manage to flash the 6b "Carpe Diem", which pleased me, but otherwise, knackered.

Kalymnos: very good day - 6 routes - at ghost kitchen then Arginonta valley.

two 6b+ onsights and one hard 6b flash. plus a 3-star 6a+ I'd first done in 2008. Wonderful stuff.

Beer was drunk.

we started CLIMBING at 6:45 UK time! yep early one. - to avoid heat.

Kalymnos: fucking awful day, got taken by the big boys to Secret garden, which was very steep - I couldnt' cope at all, really died, fell off everything, and took a massive swing out from a desperate 7a I had no business being on

Weak, scared, and a failure. Embarassingly, Cathy the twice everest summitter was there too, tho she's shit at steep tufa climbing as well.

Hot and very hard attempt at running in Kalymnos. in hot weather gear. gave me the shits again like last time . dripping with sweat.

hilly, on roads/ tracks, and felt rubbish. Really rubbish - lost it?

Spent afternoon on Telendos having lunch then walking to a canyon with Cathy o-dowd, who has climbed everest twice. She's pretty fast at walking on rough stuff! no surprise there. South african, met her on Tinder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O%27Dowd

Took boat to Telendos & climbed just two long (40m) routes, both very good, then bagged day off as we were an odd number & had a nice alone walk back to port. including being on the beach.

probbaly a rest day then, despite 80m of climbing and a 5km walk over stony ground.

Climbing all day with Steve R. Gerakios. Very good day - including a 6b+ onsight that was nails. Given 6c in UKC. wow!
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=389736

6 routes.

Many beers sunk later.