The title of this post comes from what my mother said when she was trying to explain how her friend bruises easily. I now have a membership at Rocknasium and my own rock-climbing shoes and harness (so I won’t have to spend $6 in rental each time at the gym). I climbed two 5.7s and a 5.8 on Friday. Afterwards, as I was touting the health benefits to Cheryl, I happened to glance at my […]
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Muscles
My poor little muscles have gone all floppy this week as they’ve sat around watching me work on the computer. So yesterday Anna and I took them for a walk in Briones Regional Park, on a six-mile trail with 1700 feet in elevation gain. Anna’s wearing the cowboy hat she bought in Death Valley. Our destination was a small, fuzzy, round peak where, inspired by total isolation and the 360-degree view, we spontaneously broke into […]
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Look what I did this afternoon! Rock-climbing Lulu: aren’t you proud of me? I wasn’t even too scared. My favorite part is flying down after reaching the top. I made it all the way three three times out of four. On the last climb I had gotten up over the hard bendy-out part but the handholds got too small and my arms were too tired, so I asked to be released earthward, and floated down […]
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