Get in, The plan was to go Baslow and hit up the easy routes to solo and then have a little session at Flat World and The Eagle Stone. Driving over it was freezing, first day this year i've had to scrape ice off the windscreen, conditions were set to be perfect.
Arriving at a not so sunny Baslow (it was still in the shade) we decided to go over the road and warm up on Curbar Trackside Boulder. But i realised how shit that boulder is and how it makes me hate the Peak District and all the bell ends that climb there.
Rant over. We moved over the road to Baslow a mini route/highball venue; i was keen to get plenty of easy stuff done and get my head back into doing challenging moves more than 2m from the deck or from a bolt. Warming up and doing plenty of route it was good to be out again with Rich, Laura and Matt and enjoying the banter that comes part and parcel of going out bouldering. It is so much more sociable than routes, especially trad.
So that was a week ago. And i've decided to complete the post and update people with my injury and rehab.
It was a month ago that my foot popped and so did my tendon. So far my rehab couldn't be going any better. I had these almighty plans to run and do some weights but i haven't needed to i have been able to climb outdoors for four days and have plenty of sessions indoors along with some frenchies and plenty of thera-banding to build up some stability within my shoulders. Also in this time i have done plenty of route setting and even had an indoor boulder session. Now from doing all this i can pull at a reasonable strength to stress the tendon without pain, does having lots of injuries previous mean i know how to rehab? Who knows but it certainly hasn't done me any harm.
Appreciating what you have got.... This is what i have come to realise. Since returning from Spain i have managed to finish Jonny Dawes' Full of Myself and moved on to a book which couldn't be any different from this. Paul Pritchard's The Totem Pole, this is an amazingly well written book about the accident in Tasmania and all about his recovery from not being able to walk or talk to within a year living independently and returning to the scene of the accident. There is a part in the book were he is looking out of the hospital in Tasmania and is able to see the Organ Pipes where only a week before his accident he was climbing but sat in his wheelchair thinking he may never be able to walk again let alone climb. He has an amazing battle with his body and mind re-learning how to walk and improving his memory. It dawned upon me that i am so lucky to be able to travel to all these beautiful places and be able to climb and spend time with some of the best people in the world.
The book has got me psyched to go and do a big sea pillar now!! And if you haven't already read it get it and i promise you won't be able to put it down.
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