Coffee and Climbing - What more do you need?

Ohhhhh I'm just sitting here, slowly waking up and trying to talk myself out of getting sick. My throat has been slowly getting more and more sore over the last couple days, and some of the folks in the office here have been passing something around for the last week or two.

Surely, my superior immune system and rock solid genetics should shield me...?

But I'm starting to feel worn down. Maybe it has something to do with all the rain as well. Regardless -- I'm way too busy at work to get sick, so it seems that for that reason alone, I wont allow it. Not this time -- biology and nature.

Not. This. Time.

It's 8:30AM -- and two double espresso's will keep me going

Sitting here at my desk, about to start working, and I heard my fingers clicking and cracking louder than the keyboard. I think to myself, "Sorry, fingers. Sorry, tendons.... This is just how things are going to be for the rest of your lives -- until the day I can afford robot hands". Climbing training has started to be felt -- very much in a good way though. I miss the feeling of being an organic machine -- and I can feel myself getting stronger.

A little GIF animation of flinging myself over a very reachy / dynamic V2 problem. Nothing too difficult. Just some big reaches.

I've had a lot of fun just tossing my phone onto timer & burst mode, and seeing some of the bouldering animations I can make. I expect to have quite a few more of these in the near term. Now I just need to figure out how to get them going on longer, lead-climbing routes....

See you this evening for a big-ass Crushening post (important distinction: do not expect a big ass-crushening post)!