Steve Heffernan's Blog » Exercise http://blog.steveheffernan.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 25 May 2010 16:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 We are the champions! http://blog.steveheffernan.com/2009/02/we-are-the-champions/ http://blog.steveheffernan.com/2009/02/we-are-the-champions/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:50:40 +0000 Steve http://blog.steveheffernan.com/?p=222 Just got back from an indoor soccer game. Well, two of them. We won the first game which got us into the finals, and then even though the other team was on fresh legs, we beat them 8-5. It was against a team that has become our bitter rivals, so that made it so much sweeter.

We had about 45 minutes between games, so I’m dead now. On top of that, I’m limping because of a charlie horse in my thigh, I’m bleeding from my knee and ankle, my big toe is jammed, and I chipped a tooth. Totally worth it. :) Well, maybe. We’ll see how I feel tomorrow morning.

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This weekend I went rock climbing with my friend Brad, the guitarist in my old band. Friday night we went to Rockreation, a rock climbing gym in Costa Mesa. The majority of the place was covered  in bolted-in handholds, as you can see in the photo. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a ton about rock climbing. As with any sport, there’s a whole other vocabulary to learn just to get by.

If I lived close to a rock climbing gym, I could see myself getting a membership (about $50/month). The only thing that would bug me is the dependency on a belayer (someone holding the other end of the rope). I’d rather not have to rely on someone else I know being there to get a climb in, and I’m not the type that would just ask someone random. They do have a section for “bouldering,” which is basically low level technical climbs that you can do without a spotter. That might be good enough. I’ve also been on rock climbing walls where the belay is an automatic pulley system that doesn’t require another person. I think that would be ideal if I were going to join a gym.

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