Busy week...

Dance lesson last (Monday) night.
Climbing tonight.
Evening visit to the cottage to see family again Wednesday night.
Climbing Thursday night.
Day off Friday to go rock climbing and hiking in the Gatineaus with gabriel_le.
Day-trip to KG on Saturday.
Fly to Indiana on Sunday.

bouldering and hands

My usual Tuesday evening climbing partner is in Switzerland on holidays, so wasn't able to make it today. So, I spent the evening bouldering instead. Got my first "flapper" (from climbing), too.

Lately I've been finding climbing rough on my hands -- I've worked up to a level where far more of the holds are "crimps" (little ledges, with maybe a finger's-width of gripping space) rather than "jugs" (bigger holds where you can get your whole hand in). This tends to put a lot more stress on the finger muscles and tendons -- and I've been feeling it in my hands. But, today, with bouldering, far more of that is done on overhangs, which means back to jugs, but you're putting a lot more weight/stress on the hands from the jugs -- but in this case I'm feeling it in the skin, rather than joints/tendons. My hands are feeling far more abraded than they normally would have after an evening of climbing, though the tendons (so far) seem less stressed.

But, I definitely no longer have the soft-smooth hands of a knowledge worker. :)