"How did you like amateur hour at the Tour de France? " - LA

That more or less sums up the performance aspect of an otherwise great day out at the crag with some great new climbing mates.Let's make a list shall we?

1. Running out of liquids at lunch time
2. Dieting on a climbing day
3. Starting a new training cycle the day before a climbing day
4. Sitting around for an hour between attempts and not bothering to warm up before the next attempt
5. Spending an hour trying to do the crux move statically in the mistaken belief that's how you did it previously and stubbornly refusing to do the simple dyno to the sloper instead, until right at end of the afternoon.

Dark Heart, 30, Kallk Bay. It's a horrible route really - always full of grime, bolts in the wrong place, but it's got these big, butch and ugly moves that make you feel so inadequate when you fail on them. I also ended up banging my head on it (micro-lump visible using STEM. Also on the grainy photo above). What kind of a crap route do you bang your head on, for heaven's sakes?

I'll get it next time.

Today was the 23rd May. A landmark day for me.