Bouldering In Lincoln Woods at 8:41 AM

So i went up with my friends jason and john to stay at our friend daves house in Massachusetts. we drove up early saturday morning and chilled in a very cool new england town, watched "yes man" and rode bikes.

yesterday, (sunday) we drove east to lincoln woods state park in rhode island to boulder.

the park was beautiful. the trees were tall and extremely colorful. i couldnt have asked for a more perfect day. the temperature was in the low 60's, and the sun dried out the rock that was soaked the previous night.

most of our time, unfortunately was spent wandering around trying to find the boulders..in particular, the try again boulder.

one guy who was helping with crag clean-up led us to a boulder he said was ships prow, which actually turned out to be try-again, so we used that as a basis and walked around for 20 minutes lol.

there werent any locals on the boulder to help us with the problems, so we tried very few problems for the amount of time we had unfortunately,

but i got to send a pretty fun powerful problem called try again v5.

from there we headed to our cars and then drove to the other side to work on the iron-cross and cave-wall boulders.

i sent a really fun v4 traverse called iron cross. crimpy, big, powerful cross moves. i am usually not a fan of traversing, but the moves were pretty sweet.

we walked over to the cave wall boulder and i worked on a v7 called rump to jump. the opening moves were really cool, really shouldery moves on pinches. i got so close to linking the extension to the v4 problem neil's lunge. but i ran out of steam.

i got sick over the weekend, so i think that affected me a little bit, because i was sick- all i ate that day was a quarter bowl of cereal...lol. as well as the problems taking their toll on me little by little.

if i had another day, id definitely be able to send rump to jump. kinda bummed we had such limited time, but it was a good learning experience!

for some reason it feels like when im on real rock i forget to use technique, and once i remind myself, the problems go from being really hard to being alright/easy/fun. lol.

i really wish i could have checked out the pond cave. there lies the boulder problems "who needs hueco v8" and "leap frog v7". both looked really cool, they were the only video problems i could find on youtube when i looked up lincoln woods.

but...maybe next time, whenever i go back...gunks definitely felt more fun to me, and the access is so easy and so much closer lol.

i got to train more!

its been officially 9 months since i started climbing, since trips outdoors are limited, i dont have time to spend days in a row at a crag. i need to send harder stuff in a day.

i need to build strength, endurance, better problem reading skills, and more fluid/precise foot movement.

back to the gym for now!

Clips from TRC gym in New Rochelle NY at 7:03 PM

I'm mad beat so I'll make this short

1. Today marks 7 months that I've been climbing
2. It is wayyy too hot and humid outside
3. I'm going to attempt to hit up the normal gym tomorrow morning, hope its not hot.
4. toothpaste kills acne really awesome
5. new as tall as lions cd is amazing, go BUY it. they need support
6. I was going to escape this week, but plans failed for now...try again in a couple months
7. I had an epiphany on wednesday...maybe i'll share that later.
8. I'm going back to school this fall. exciting!
9. I'm very excited to see what events will unfold in the last half of this year.
10. I don't know what I want.

V5 With Crappy Hands. I just wanted to show everyone my failure...lol

Big Dyno, about 7 1/2 Feet

God bless all of you :)

-Alan