Day 10: Need Rest
We thought two rest days would be plenty of time to recover and come back to RMNP and crush our harder problems. Well, we thought wrong. When we attempted to warm up yesterday it was clear, we need a lot more rest.
Our initial attack on the park throughout the week left us dead tired. On one of the climbing days last week I got carried away trying to send Tommy’s Arete v8 (at Emerald Lake). Its style is very different from what April and I are used to. It is a sloping arete requiring compression and technical moves. After climbing primarily on steep crimps this one took a toll on my body. On my first go from the bottom I climbed all the way up, past the hardest moves and then got stuck. I should have tried the last few moves but I was too excited. I dropped off, worked the moves and was sure I’d send next go. About 20 tries later I still didn’t celebrate the send. I did however dial every little perfection out of the climb because each attempt left me more and more tired, unable to reach my high point. After squeezing the arete for a long long time I had to call it quits. I was so tired that evening I almost fell asleep cooking dinner and afterwards I could barely lift my arm to brush my teeth.
Paul on Tommy’s Arete v8
April was battling Real Large v9 during the time I sessioned Tommy’s Arete. She was trying to believe that one of the crux moves was possible for her (it certainly looked possible based on how incredibly close she was). April kept falling short of the good portion of the hold trying to figure a way to get about another inch or so of distance. She and I couldn’t think of any other way to complete the move. Her final decision was to put that climb on hold for the day and try the sit start to The Kind v6.
April on The Kind – Sit v6
Yesterday we decided it is definitely time to rest. We were expecting to destroy our well rehearsed climbs but they still felt hard. We managed to send but we’ll have to wait a few days to get back to our main projects.
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