cheap date (or, more knives in the biceps)
moominmolly discovered that as bu staff she can get her family memberships to the bu gym, which is pretty nice... and which has a climbing wall and rents climbing gear. this is orders of magnitude cheaper than metrorock. (even a 1-day guest pass can work out to be cheaper, depending on the day; especially if you rent gear.)
so we spent the evening there, which was nicely in line with my plan to do horrible things to my arms most days this week (tomorrow's a rest day). on the bouldering area, i could tell i was muscling through the routes i tried instead of doing anything like the graceful, smooth movements the more experienced folks seemed to use; but i wasn't really sure how to do those, and using a lot of muscle suits my purposes fine this week. more to learn later...
so we spent the evening there, which was nicely in line with my plan to do horrible things to my arms most days this week (tomorrow's a rest day). on the bouldering area, i could tell i was muscling through the routes i tried instead of doing anything like the graceful, smooth movements the more experienced folks seemed to use; but i wasn't really sure how to do those, and using a lot of muscle suits my purposes fine this week. more to learn later...