Saturday, May 17, 2025

May 17, 2025 - Ask my hamstring.

After having been so close to doing "Day of Tentacle" last week in Apremont Sanglier, it was my main goal for today's climbing session. It was substantially colder than last week, so I hoped for good friction on the extremely bad slopers at the end.
Last week, on Saturday, I had figured out al the moves and could do the boulder in two overlapping parts, but couldn't do the topout when coming from the start. That was my first session on it.
The day after, on Sunday, I went back, with Olaf this time, for my second session. I was able to cruise through the first part every time, but again kept falling off at the end. I did get a new highpoint though, and even couldn't have been closer to topping out, but still fell off. My left hamstring had started hurting though because of the constant pressure with the heelhook trying to top out. It got bad enough for me to throw in the towel and give my hamstring a break.
This morning, my third session on it, I could still feel my hamstring and for a moment I feared that I would have to stop again in order not to get injured, but I stayed and tried to come up with some minor tweaks to relieve some of the pressure on my hamstring for the topout. A little detail made that work and keeping that in mind, I was finally able to finish it.
A very cool problem that felt very hard for the grade. My hamstring can confirm.

Fontainebleau - Apremont Sanglier - Day of Tentacle 7B

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