Not a jug: About this blog

Hi everybody! Welcome to my new blog. The reasons I'm creating this page follow from a few not-necessarily-new developments in my life:

In case my family and friends (especially those not living in Brisbane) want to know what's going on in my life,
to have this as a journal of our weekend adventures (otherwise forgotten by me because of my bad memory),
to have this as a (rock climbing) training journal and
having recently turned 30, I wanted to start something new, even if it was small and only a couple of people read this.

Truth be told, if I am to continue to be motivated to write this, I will have to focus the content on the third and fourth aforementioned bulletpoints, i.e. mostly a rock climbing training diary.

Now for a few basic details about me: I'm a 30-year old Mexican physicist/mathematician (hopefully I will soon remedy that) married to the ever-so beautiful and versatile Maria. I love helping out other people, travelling and rock climbing (the latter two go really well with each other!).

I've been climbing for about 2 years and 8 months now, and I'm as hooked as ever! My current maximum level is V5 outdoor bouldering (a few V6 indoors), and Ewbanks 26 in outdoor lead sport climbing (5.12c in YDS). In December 2013, Maria, some friends and I will be travelling to Mexico to do some climbing (and exploring), and training for this trip begins tomorrow (Monday 9th of September 2013). I'm actually pretty psyched about that! Lately I've been pestered by this (A2) pulley injury of my left middle finger, which makes me afraid to crimp hard. After taking 3 weeks off it felt better for about 2 weeks, then it came back (in less magnitude). Hopefully after the 5-day rest I've given it (along with all that great birthday tamales that Maria and Vivi made) I should be OK to start training progressively. Details of my training will be included here (hopefully) tomorrow.

For now, I'll just leave whoever is reading this with a couple o' shots of my birthday surprise (Thanks Maria!) trip we did yesterday. Those guys were truly amazing!