wow, tired hands and arms!

I was climbing yesterday at Planet Rock in Pontiac (with renniekins), and today at Planet Rock in Ann Arbor (with Caryn). Two days in a row is definitely heavy going -- especially as Planet Rock has about twice the vertical of my usual gym, meaning the climbs are a lot more tiring. At my gym, a tiring/pumpy 5.9 won't be so bad, because it will end -- here they keep going, with me getting more and more tired. Also, especially at the gym in Ann Arbor, it felt like very little of their wall space was actually vertical -- most was overhanging to one degree or another, and that tends to wear out the arms, too.

I think, too, they're even less consistent in their grading than my usual gym. One 5.9 route, I fought through 4 or 5 moves, before falling off. A couple of other 5.9s I climbed smoothly and with relative ease all the way to the top -- a bit tired by the end, but still making all the moves. And, the 5.9 I fell off was a dihedral, a style on which I usually climb above my usual rating.

Climbing Saturday should still be good, though.