February Update

Quiet would be a good word to describe the first couple of months of 2013 so far. 
The river dried up which put a stop to all the kayaking, so I turned my focus back to my climbing training. This was done mostly on my home wall, with the odd deep water solo at Berry Head when conditions permitted, mainly because the weather wasn't really good enough to get out much. 
However, my aching back, that I was suffering with from Christmas, finally gave out on me and that pretty much put a stop to all the climbing training, which was really frustrating because it had been going really well and I was feeling a lot stronger. 
After a few weeks rest, a two-hour physio session and lots of stretching, I finally started getting better again. By early February I was back to my pull-up routine and some easy-ish climbing routes, and later in that same month I was back to my power-endurance circuits on my steep home wall. Excellent. 
The British weather is continuing to disappoint with the usual run of cold, grey, damp, and generally rubbish conditions. This means no kayaking or outdoor climbing to look forward to in the near future, which is slightly frustrating because I still haven't got to paddle my new ZET Raptor creek boat yet, and the routes I want to climb locally still need more time to dry out properly, but conditions are remaining too damp for that to happen right now. Dammit! 
Oh well, all I can do is keep going with the training in the hope that when conditions come right I might hopefully be fit enough to stand a chance of getting up some of the routes on my tick-list?!? Afterall; pain is temporary, but victory lasts a lifetime. Venga!!! ;)