Proper recovery, it makes a difference ( Read more... )

Being An Imagined Dialogue ( Read more... )

I have been absent, dear readers, not so much because I have not been on the wall this week, but because it is time for me to learn New! Exciting! Core! Competencies! at my job. Specifically, proposal writing. More specifically, for a ridiculous amount of money on a two-week zero-to-submitted deadline. I always did want to learn something about how ( Read more... )

So SuperComputing happened ( Read more... )

The Plan, day 1 report ( Read more... )

Well, that could perhaps have been a more exciting and successful session. Fell off *all* the bouldering problems, pretty much ( Read more... )

So here's the thing: be careful what you ask for. You might well get it ( Read more... )

It is, I think, getting to the time of year when my lungs actually need medication for proper function. Three off days are not enough--or possibly too much--to recover stamina proper-like ( Read more... )

In which Our Correspondent learns several things, some of which are useful ( Read more... )

Red v3 is down. For those keeping score at home, that's a jump of two bouldering grades in under two weeks. That one truly is a matter of locking one arm, getting the other onto the (only moderately stretchy at that point) hemisphere, palming a volleyball equivalent, and inching your way vertical enough to finish the problem (ideally with your legs ( Read more... )