ROCK

Had the first taste of rock in quite a while this morning, absolute winner! The recent good weather allowed a dawn raid to the roaches before work.

Getting our asses out of bed for a half 7 set off wasn't as hard as expected, it could become a regular pre-work event if this weather holds.

We (me and Gav Nixon) got to the roaches for 8 30ish and headed over to the 5 clouds. I was keen to get on Tetris for the first time, I had heard its wicked problem. After an inadequate warm up i started having a bash at the moves, felt pretty tricky. Did all the moves but one but time and the bitter temperature were an issue. I opted to just try the stand up, the imaginatively named "Hard Arete," which goes at 7a+, this went after a few goes.

We then sprinted to the lower tier to have a go at mushin'. After hearing some good beta from Phil and Dom (Brannigan) i was pretty psyched. A few goes saw me getting the toe hook to work and pulling up to tickling the stacked mono, a very cool set of moves.
Finally I had a quick run down to three pocket slab and the green traverse to remind myself how good they were! Leaving the sun and heading to work was tough.

Felt fairly strong but a little clumsy and not quite "with it" on the rock after so much plastic pulling and training, was very nice to get out again though.... things are looking up!