Blogging revisited with new scope

As I attempt to get back to my blog, just to keep up, I don't want this to be just a Kayaking blog. Considering that since Oct 22, 2006, I have paddled once and have no idea when my next outing on a river would be, there would be little to write about. Besides I want to keep writing, hence the expanded scope.

Of the last six non-paddling months, I spent a considerable amount of time (ten hours in a week), in an indoor gym, working on my climbing skills, then some biking, and then some playing ping pong and hiking, just to stay in shape.

My Target store 'Schwinn something', suspension-challenged MTB, survived some intermediate trails in the hills of Southington under my noob riding. MTB is a hard sport, hard on your lungs. That and the increasing chill of the winter and some rather badly frozen fingers later, I decided to lay off the biking as well.

Back to Climbing, started climbing Dec of 2005. Through summer of 2006, I occasionally top roped, and then resumed climbing in the gym in the winter of 2006. Considering Kayaking was my main focus, and juggling between family, work and other pursuits I could focus very little on climbing. But since I started climbing indoors this winter, I figured, I should probably focus more on climbing as it is one craft, I could pursue back in India, where I plan to return turn of this year. (Accordingly, I have been gathering data on climbing in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai in general, and in Sahyadaris (western ghats) & Eastern Ghats in specific). Accordingly I started also accumulating gear for trad climbing.