Warming Up

This weekend was a blast! I started out with watching my friends race in Food, Folks and Spokes on Friday. Saturday I headed up to Adventure Rock with some friends, where we spent the next 5 hours climbing. There I warmed up on a 5.9 lead following with two 5.8s lead. This weekend I was working on leading a 5.10+. I took a break from lead and moved to a 5.12 top rope that I have been projecting for two weeks. I am projecting this certain 5.12 because it is a lot of fun and I am able to get a little more than half way on it. Before I reach the spot that I fall, there is this move that I am a little short to do so I jump for it. Since I am jumping for this rock I start swinging. I swing just until I have enough control to bring my foot up to a heel hook move. We finished up with top rope by doing laps on three 5.10+ and a bunch more of fun routes that i just have to do when ever I am there.  We went back to lead climbing and I continued to work on 5.10s and did a set of laps on a 5.8. To finish up the day for climbing I cooled down on a 5.9 lead and did a couple of boulder problems and 5 pull ups. Sunday was perfect Mom had planned a suprise birthday party for my Dad's 60th birthday. We had ten people join us, along with my godparents. We spent the next 4 hours talking and making jokes and after wards we got back together to play a two hour long card game (which I won!). All in all this was a great weekend and I just can't wait till my season starts again. This past thrusday my mom decided that we were going to go out to Great Falls Park in Virgina about an hour away from Quantico. We finally get to go climb outside for more than a couple hours., but for like couple of days. We will be doing alot of top rope climbing. Some trad climbing to since my coach is comming with and is going to teach me and also use this as a training camp. My older brother is in Quantico for the next 3 months, we were also planning on visiting him if he had 72 hour leave.