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| we salute you |
As we weren't tired and aching enough from yesterdays skateboarding, today we went up to the Peak District to do some Fontainebleau preparation.
Anna, Jezz and I are going to spend a week in Font in September, so it's time to start getting mentally and physically prepared.
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| pad hogs |
Set in the southern end of the Burbage Valley, amongst the bracken (head height in parts, at this time of year) you will find a scattering of large, coarse gritstone boulders strewn across the hillside below Burbage South Edge.
There are lots of easy (and I use that word with a single, slightly raised eyebrow) problems here, and in many ways it's like spending a day in Font.
We spent most of the day padding up friction slabs...
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| trust your feet |
This involves standing on vague bumps and pea-sized pebbles, and trying to believe that your foot won't slip off, should you pluck up the nerve to attempt to stand on it!
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| faith in friction |
On one particular climb, for no apparent or agreed reason, we all decided to do animal impersonations...
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| stork |
Jezz going for the classic left hand and foot close together - right hand and foot far, far apart Stork Pose (I think it might be a yoga thing)...
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| gecko |
...whilst Anna uses opposing hands and feet as she performs The Gecko...
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| crab |
...nobody can explain whatever it is I'm doing...and Jezz had to bomb, natch...
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| bomber |
But despite all of that, it was a successful day of climbing easy (there's that word again) problems, ripping our skin up, catching the sun, and generally having a good time out in the bright, warm breeze.
We hope it will be the start of a period of progress and improvement in the 6 or 7 weeks until we go to Fontainebleau.
We'll be looking for gains in strength, stamina, flexibility (in my case) and finger skin resilience (Jezz and Anna)...and good losses in body fat (Jezz and I)!
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| into battle |
This large boulder is known as The Tank, for fairly obvious reasons...this afternoon, we couldn't resist the opportunity to climb aboard before we left, and get some photos as we urged the great battleship forward.
It seemed like a fitting cry as we head towards Font...
Onward!
B-)
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