Awesome Weekend

So, Phil came up this weekend... early. I can always count on Phil to wake up at an ungodly early time and want to do something. So he was at my place by 7:30 and we were at Ro's building at 9:10. After a quick breakfast at Bob Evans, we hit the climbing gym. I don't know how Phil felt about it, but man... the thing about climbing is that if you don't do it all the time, you never use those muscles any other time and you suck when you do it sparatically. But I had an awesome time reguardless. And Ro did an incredible job as well.

She not only made it all the way to the top (70 feet), multiple times, but she did some hard climbs. She did a 5.9 (with some help) and a 5.10 chimney. Just so you know, the scale works like this: a 5.6 is the easiest and has a TON of large holds you can put both hands and feet on, and a 5.12+ is as hard as it gets in a gym. So a 5.9 is really good and a 5.10 is phenominal. Now I said it was a 5.10 chimney, meaning there was walls on both sides of her... chimneys are a bit easier because if you get stuck, you can just shimmy up the walls like a ninja a few feet to get past the hard part. And since Ro is asian... the ninja stuff comes naturally.

One final note.... it's finally starting to happen. Phil is getting his own blog. Although he hasn't posted yet, we can still leave him some comments of encouragement... here.