5/14 10pm


Yet another solid day on the wall. Here nearing the end of the first week I feel like I have fallen into a steady rhythm. I get up at 6, climb from 8:30 till 12:30, and either climb more or do back end work for an hour before going to theatre in the afternoons and evenings for the mounting rehearsals as the musical performance nears. It is weird how things feel really busy and really still. I spend the first half of the day climbing where I can take all the time in the world trying to move 5 feet for an arbitrary goal. This is followed by 5 or so hours of the stress of learning lines and hitting notes and imagining a world in which I was not cast as someone with a British accent. It is just an interesting lifestyle for the moment.


As far as climbing goes, I am pretty done trying to make easy routes. I am glad I spent a while doing it, but it is surprisingly hard to do. My talk with my mentor yesterday inspired me to try some of the hardest parts of old climbs and see if I could reconstruct a route around them. It is much more fun looking for something hard rather than something easy. At the moment I am experimenting with side pulls, hold you can only grip if your body is

leaning away from them.


Daily Hours 4

Total Hours 23

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