Friday
Swimming. 750 metres before breakfast.

Saturday
Climbing. Decent session, I got 3 v4s including a flash. The one I'm happiest with was a V3 overhang which is my anti-style (It was: a jump start to two small jugs with no feet; a campus move to bump up the right hand; a swing with the left leg to a chip way out left; throw the left hand to decent hold which is quite far; cut loose with the feet; plop the feet on starting jugs. Then the last couple of moves are easy.)

Climbing, 2.75 hours. Fun session; I was in good form. I went through a recent phase of not really getting any v4s at this gym; I now get a few and most of the v3s. That said, there is a V2 which requires either being tall or being flexible which I didn't get. (You need to plop your right foot somewhere near your head, which was beyond me.)

Wednesday
Climbing.
Good fund, I was in decent form. It turns out that I can't do upside down crack; I may go back for more pain and misery. 3 hours.

Thursday
Swimming, 1km

Saturday
Caving. We did Swildon's Hole. We aimed to get to the first symp. But it was very, very damp. Bits of the cave which ared normally dry had medium sized waterfalls. The 8 foot climb down a waterfall wouldn't have been safe, so we bimbled around the top instead.

Sunday
Caving.
We did Eastwater. Much of this cave is a bedding plane, where you are sandwiched between two bits of rock. You need to wedge yourself in to avoid falling to the bottom. It had virtually no standing passage in the bits we did; not being able to move my head due to the narrowness was common


Good fun; I will go again.

I have missed a bunch of logging.

Tuesday
Climbing. I was terrible. 3.5 hours.

Wednesday
Climbing. I was decent. 2 hours.

Thursday
Swimming, 750m.

Friday
Climbing, 2 hours. My best session in ages

Saturday
Climbing, 3.5 hours.
Odd session; I was terrible for the first two hours. I then sent a project and went on a sending spree.

Sunday
Walk, 24 miles-ish with many hills. It rained all day; I didn't see any blue sky all day. It was very muddy. I did the Three Peaks of Surrey (Box Hill, Holmbury Hill and Leith Hill).

Here is the tower on top of Leith Hill:

I went climbing on Monday. My heart wasn't really in it; I think I pulled a muscle in my right leg on the 25 mile hike on Sunday. It meant i didn't really commit to any of the jumping moves .

I went swimming today; 1 km. It was nice; I think my leg injury has recovered.

Wednesday
Swimming 1km

Thursday
Climbing. I was poor, but way better than Monday.

Saturday
Caving. 8 hour trip. Here is Sue going down a waterfall.

Sunday was more caving; a short trip (4 hours).

Mark may have broke a rib early on. He is retired; but ex-military and hard as nails. We had the option of walking passage or a 20 minute crawl on the exit. Mark chose the crawl, swearing the whole way.

Monday
Climbing, 2.5 hours. I concentrated on strength training. I was way worse than many others in the group; but most of them can easily bang out 1-arm pull-ups. I can't.

Tuesday
Swimming; 1km.

Wednesday
Climbing.
3.5 hours, decent session. I got almost all the v3s at the gym; and a couple of v4s.

Saturday
Caving. A training session; I learned how to rig. It turns out 4 knots are sufficient (double figure 8; clove hitch; overhand and bowline on a bite.)

Sunday
Caving. Sell Gill; I had acrack at rigging. Good fun; I want to go more. 5 hour trip

Monday
Climbing. More strength training. It was fun.

There is a v5 I got too the penultimate move on. It may go eventually; it's max effort so I won't get many attempts per session, though.

Tuesday
Climbing, 2.5 hours. Decent session, although I faded a bit towards the end.

Thursday
I didn't have time for climbing. So I did some hangboarding and pull-ups (5 sets of 10 with 60 seconds rest between sets.)

I had a sedentary Easter; my Mum visited me. She's not hugely mobile at the moment. I snuck in a little exercise:

Friday
Climbing, 2 hours. Decent, I got loads of v4s , (although this gym grades soft.)

Saturday
Probably about 6 miles walk, and a short lifting session (squat, bench and deadlift).

Sunday
7 miles walk.

Monday
Climbing, 2 hours. Another decent session.

Wednesday
Climbing. I was terrible. I got one V3, but it was a major struggle. 2 hours. Gravity was strong.

Friday
Swimming, 1.5 km.

Saturday
To compensate for Wednesday, gravity was lower today. I got a load of projects. They covered a range of styles; my favourite was an overhang jump-y one. I'm normally terrible at these, so it was a pleasant surprise to get it.

I spent the weekend learning caving techniques, such as how to bolt rock; how to move big rocks out of the way (violence is the answer); and how to survey. There was rescue training on the Sunday, but Joe and I got bored so did a quick trip to Slaughter Stream. It's an interesting cave; it's not got not many formations but its's Dolomite limestone. So it had loads of fossils.

Monday was climbing; I was quite good. I got a load of v3s and a v4. (This gym is relatively sandbagged to other London gyms at the moment.) It was a training session so we concentrated on volume; I did loads of routes in the 2 hours.

Today was climbing. Again, it was a pretty good session.

On Thursday, I lifted, doing bench, deadlift, hangboard and loads of pull-ups(probably around 100 across sets. Some were weighted, some used band assistance to practice one armers.)

Over the weekend, I went diving. On Saturday, we aimed for10 a.m. ropes off. But the boat was broken, so it was actually more like 11.30 when we headed out. It was 7 p.m when we got back. Condition were nice.

We only did one dive today to help with logistics. Again, it was a nice dive. My new heated vest is good.