It's all in the fingers

I went climbing today.  It was awesome!  I started working a little V2 problem that I had never really tried.  First time back in a few months and it didn't go so well.  That was to be expected though so I kept trying, changing my feet, grabbing at different parts of the same hold from different angles.  It shouldn't be too hard to make the top-out reach next time.  We shall see nameless-V2-problem-that-lies-20-feet-to-the-left-of-shapeshifter!  I  moved on to go and work another V2 problem called Long Shot.  This was a painful endevour in more ways than one.  For startes my fingers were talking to me from my short work on the other V2; screaming in the absence of any kind of callous on any of the fingers.  Next my knee hurt a little bit when i had to do the starting heel-hook.  It's felt funny before but I've never tried it more than one time while being out there.  Today I worked the start 3-4 so my knee is a little sore.  It's weird cause it's rooted in the outside of the knee, almost like it's a problem with a tendon that is connecting to the lateral epicondyles of my tibia  :-)   Luckily there were a other climbers who wanted to climb Long Shot too... and they smoked my ass!  But it true hippy style, they were not arrogant and were eager to give me pointers (known as beta in the climbing community).  I finished my 2 hour session working on a problem that is probably a V1 called Cheese is Good.  I've tried this one in the past but today I got 2 moves higher than I ever have.  I took a nice 8 foot fall onto my brand spankin new crash pad.  It's the first real fall it took.  It has been deflowered  :-P

The fingers are sore but they will be for a few weeks.  

A beautiful afternoon and day outside, I cleaned my car, drank two beers, and tidied up my room a bit.  Didn't even realize it was V-day til about 5:00 this evening.