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Monday, 10 September 2007
Birthday Greetings
Happy Birthday to:
Jog Blog 23
Here we go again.It's been a couple of weeks since I went running, for a variety of reasons (some avoidable, some less so), but I made the effort this morning and put in a nice three and a half miler. That's five and a bit kilometres, in just under half an hour on a hilly course, which is pretty pleasing. Not terribly quick, but then that's never been the aim. Thus far, anyway. I think I might pick a three mile course and do it regularly against the clock - maybe once a week or so, mixed in with other runs, but once a week do a time trial and see how I get on, if I improve as a result.
Saturday, 8 September 2007
Ice climbing!
Check this out.
Seriously, how cool is this? Excuse the pun!
Birthday present from Sarah, my wife-to-be. We went up to Manchester, to the North Face store on Deansgate, where they house a 27 foot tall ice wall. Oh yes, an ice wall! So, we donned crampons and picked up ice axes. A brief, and very "common sense" briefing from Mark (our superbly laid back instructor) followed, and we were off! The video embedded above is my first attempt - I'm a natural, apparently. Apologies for the slightly squashed nature of the footage, my camera video stream doesn't rotate too well! Sarah was also up and down the wall several times. There are several techniques, and we dabbled in all of them, scaling a variety of routes up the wall, including an overhanging box, up a formation known as "the pillar", and the relatively simple route shown above. I made a couple of attempts without ice axes too, attempting to "rock climb" up the face, with (what I thought was) quite some success!
All in all, a great present, a great work-out, and best of all, great fun!
Seriously, how cool is this? Excuse the pun!
Birthday present from Sarah, my wife-to-be. We went up to Manchester, to the North Face store on Deansgate, where they house a 27 foot tall ice wall. Oh yes, an ice wall! So, we donned crampons and picked up ice axes. A brief, and very "common sense" briefing from Mark (our superbly laid back instructor) followed, and we were off! The video embedded above is my first attempt - I'm a natural, apparently. Apologies for the slightly squashed nature of the footage, my camera video stream doesn't rotate too well! Sarah was also up and down the wall several times. There are several techniques, and we dabbled in all of them, scaling a variety of routes up the wall, including an overhanging box, up a formation known as "the pillar", and the relatively simple route shown above. I made a couple of attempts without ice axes too, attempting to "rock climb" up the face, with (what I thought was) quite some success!
All in all, a great present, a great work-out, and best of all, great fun!
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