Stutter start on Campus #1

So today's was actually a pretty good workout, but a little outta sync with the plan. Went to the gym for a warmup for campusing on Thursday, and got roped into projecting some hardness. Was a good workout, and i'm a call it a limit boulder session--cuz it was-- but there was no campusing afterwards. So today, 3 days later, i campused. And it went much better than i anticipated.

I put up the Metolius rungs which are large, medium, and small. So i'll rename the stuff i already had up XL and XXL respectively. The large Metolius is 1 1/4" deep. My XL is a routed down 2x4, so it's 1 1/2" deep. The XXL is 3" deep.

Warmed up with basic ladders on the XXL, leading with each hand. Easy.

Did a basic ladder on the XL. Definitely having to get back into this.

Then to max ladders:

1:  XL:  to R3-L4-match
2:  XL:  to L3-R4-match
3:  L:  to R3-L4 fail
4:  L:  to L3-R4 fail :-/
5:  L:  to R3-L4 match :)
6:  L:  to L3-R4 match :)
7:  L:  to R3-L5 touch fail
8:  L:  to L3-R5 snag fail
9:  L:  to R3-L5 match!
10:  L:  to L3-R5 match! :)
11:  M:  to R3-L? total fail
12:  M:  to L3-R4 touch fail
13:  M:  to R3-L4 snag fail
14:  M:  to L3-R4 snag fail
15:  L:  to R3-L4 match
16:  L:  to L3-R4 match

Lesson (re)learned: campusing is a head trip. But this was a good start. Definitely a leap and a bound up from where i started last season. It's funny, 'cuz at the beginning today i really wasn't sure i could move on the large holds; after a single fail on each hand leading, i maxed my rungs out. (Gunna need more rungs in the near future, btw.) Similar on the medium rungs. Really never matched on a max ladder on the mediums, but i expect they'll feel fairly doable next session. We'll see.

But this was a shot in the arm. I tried to campus after Thursday's workout, and it was a complete waste of time, so i really didn't know what to expect today. I was very pleasantly surprised.