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[Shamis]

I have to say that although I failed on my fall projects, I was inspired today when I discovered that one of the trad masters that I looked up to when I was younger is now 53 years old and still climbing hard. We've both been climbing about the same amount of time, but he didn't actually start climbing until he was 34! When I feel like I'm starting to wind down and plateau I'll have to keep remembering that I'm still a year away from when he STARTED to climb. There is still hope

[shear]

Got to with in one move of sending Golden Boy (at least in my head it was the last move I SHOULD have fallen on)...then left for a few weeks, only to come back and take 2 days to get back to one hanging it again. I'm hoping for a few days in the coming weeks to make the short drive up and give it some more goes. Had lofty goals for this fall, but that freaking route destroyed them all.

[whatahutch]

For the third year in a row I didn't send Hippocrite. I also didn't get Wild, Yet Tasty for the second year of tries. I one-fall them both. I don't seriously project them (well maybe I did Hippo), I am sure if I spent more than a couple to few days trying them each different season of the year then I would get them. Next spring on of them is going down for sure.

[climb2core]

Bare Metal Teen...Projected it for 3 days, 9 or 10 burns and no send. That thing just pisses me off

[ReachHigh]

I failed at staying injury free.

other then that I have a lot of burns on wildfire and no send.

[bcombs]

The goal this year was to complete a mini-pyramid from 12a-12d just for fall. I was making pretty good progress. I had done most of the pyramid with only one 12c and 12d left. I was falling on the last move of Tapeworm for a couple tries in a row. I thought it might even go in less than 10 tries. Then I hurt my back on a trail run fall, then a fall later on Tapeworm. Now I'm out for the season and doing some PT. I was psyched every trip out this fall. Feeling like I was really close to sending my first 12d.

I can't imagine how professional athletes or Olympic athletes deal with injury. The amount of work I put in is minuscule compared to theirs, but the depression is just as deep. I hope I'm better by spring.

[caribe]

xxxxx Then I hurt my back on a trail run fall, xxxx, but the depression is just as deep. I hope I'm better by spring.

I'm in the same boat. It sucks. I know how you feel.

[ReachHigh]

xxxxx Then I hurt my back on a trail run fall, xxxx, but the depression is just as deep. I hope I'm better by spring.

I'm in the same boat. It sucks. I know how you feel.

Dido on this, warming up on 12a, and getting excited for what was to come then "smash"

[der uber]

Cutthroat. Failure to stay in peak shape through the end of the fall.