Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Climbing Pregnant

This video is me climbing at 8 months.


Mothers Hands.






 Swollen feet, tiny shoes...It helps to go first thing in the day before the heat gets to my feet.

I did switch to my bigger shoes at about 9 months.


 My Busted Toes



Then we come to today...38 weeks pregnant.  10 days till my due date.  My goal with climbing was to climb for as long as I could.  I have had to scale back, no more with the harness, (it didn't fit after a while anyway) I was also such and un-reliable partner.  I couldn't schedule when I would feel up to climbing, so it worked out best when I would go alone.  I really love climbing in The Cave, but overhang problems got harder and harder as my belly grew since my ab strength was going.  So I would just do some easy bouldering, but felt uncomfortable making big moves...so I stuck to traversing.  I decided this would be a good time to work on technique  not strength or crazy moves!  My feet had gotten really sloppy too, so this was a good time to work on them.

So far I'm still able to climb about once a week.  I go early before too many people get there, so I don't get in the way.  I'll try to keep going.  Well until September...I did suspend my membership for a month!  Here's hoping to at least one more climb before the little one arrives!



 




Bump!