A Seminal Moment

After a night on the beers, today was never likely to go down too well. Picked up Peter and headed to Craigmore. The midges were harsh and the bumblies were rife. Struggling with both, we sacked it off after Hebson climbed Wide Eyed (V4). 

Dumby again. After climbing the Sea Boulder circuit we tried 2HB (V3) . It's highball and none of us had our hearts in it. Hebson declared it game over so we went to Toto to try the sit start again. Peter had looked strong on this the day before and after a couple of goes today, was stood up in the crack. He fell off as soon as it became unstable. 

I had to step in with some harsh chat about crimpchimp. As harsh as it was it got him pretty riled. He soon showed us his new philosophy of trying hard and sent it the very next go, fighting when it got hard and manning up through the stand up. He was psyched. We were all psyched. There were high fives all round and a grin like I've never seen. 

So Peter has won the race to 7a. There was never really any doubt. I can't say I'm not gutted for myself but I'm so pleased for Pete. He has worked hard for this form and he deserves to go on from here and take Totality. I'm inspired to train for the same and I was pleased to make good progress on Toto Sit Start today. There has been a lot of harsh chat recently and I only take it heart because it's devestating to follow my two best friends round the country's crags two grades behind. However, they inspire me to better things and surely thats what mates are all about. 

Steve McClure, on the other hand, inspired only head shaking from the assebled locals after whipping us up into a frenzy by feigning a lead of Rhapsody and then escaping off left. We thought we were going to see something special but Steve just turned around and spunked in our faces. We left feeling dirty and used.