Monthly Archives: November 2009

The fat lady refuses to sing

Still November, still climbing. I begin to wonder if the season will ever end. I climbed Wrist for the first time. I don’t know if I was on-route for the first pitch but that’s sure an eye opener of a second pitch. We’re always complaining about the sandbagged ratings at my gym, but we don’t… Read more »

November what-now?

What a beautiful weekend. Saturday morning it was a little chilly waiting for the start of the Air Line Ghost Rail Run, but not as bad as I’d feared. I went into the race with low motivation. My last tempo run hadn’t gone well and I wondered why I was choosing to run 13.1 miles… Read more »

Running friendly, running blind

There was a time when I wondered why I found myself running more and climbing less, so I ticked off all the reasons why running can be awfully more convenient than climbing. One of them was that you don’t need a partner to run. Still, a partner can be fun. Friday night my stepbrother Graham… Read more »