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Rod's Euro 2009 - Trip Report ~ with updates! 29-Jul-2009 At 7:21:36 PM rod

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i'm having a difficult time convincing the local authorities where i live these days as i've no fixed address, haven't given anyone my email address (for fear of work related emails), changed my mobile number (for the same reason) and pay all my bills in cash. it seems i'll either always or never be OS.

tell you what though, the body IS starting to feel the workload...i'm knackered today.

spent the weekend marvelling at an electrical storm, lazing in the hammock and doing an "easy" multi-pitch route with G but felt a bit fatigued by the end so I decided a climbing rest day was in order: so I spared the fingers and elbows and walked up a 4,000m peak, my first on foot in the 5 years since I started climbing (have done some on skins in winter but then you get to ski down)...talk about boring, you walk uphill for an age (2,000m in this case), look at the view only fleetingly because you don't want to fall off the ridge and then when you finally get to the top you spend 10 minutes to look at a few glaciers and then trudge back down. give me a technical challenge any day...

...which I seem to have found. I resurrected an old 7b+ yesterday on a north facing wall. It took 4 hours of cleaning and the 7 to 10 moves through the crux seem really hard; I'm off to give it a whirl on the shunt this afternoon.

good effort by lance in the TDF but contador was the most impressive, what a crappy team environment for the young fella. wiggens effort was inspiring, the weight loss key behind it gives me hope for my future climbing progress. freddie killed us at lords, quite keen to see how edgbaston goes.