Can't order a prescription because ... rock climbing

Humblebrag! And you clearly don't care. Nice.

Humblebrag! And you clearly don’t care. Nice.

Can’t argue with that! Well done! You’ll never, ever catch me doing that; anything higher than a footstool gets me very twitchy indeed… 🫣

i May be out of date or misunderstanding your problem but I think you should be able to disable the fingerprint access from within android (or iOS) settings which will then give you an alternative login option.

you may also be able to login on nhs website and then force the app to go back to username, password and code.   As I am “up north” we don’t have such things but it’s my memory of how the nhs login was supposed to work when I was talking to them a while back.

I have had similar and ha o disable finger print recognition as it was so unreliable. On android you can just turn it off in security settings then use your pin.

i May be out of date or misunderstanding your problem

Amitriptyline is for depression, I get the impression the OP isn't that bothered.

Now would be the perfect time to commit some crime...

I get this a lot, but with superglue, epoxy resin, sandpaper and paint. 😊

Awesome 60 route afternoon there... good stuff!

Sod the phone, enjoy the buzz of a good grit sesh.

But yeah, fingerprint sensors and climbing don't go hand in hand. Grit, Font, even a lot of indoor wall time and those things don't work.

Brilliant problem to have

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Currently sat at home sinking into a funk. Eldest left home for uni an hour ago and I seem to be reverting to sad....

Trying to decide whether to head to Burbage north, but have no oomph.

Mr ****ing yoyo

(Edited to clarify that I do have enough prescription for the week, as such things are not to be joked about.)

60 routes in an afternoon is mad! I don't think I get that many done in the whole summer, even getting out every week! Must have been soloing? Either that or I have a long way to go with gear placement efficiency...

When I was a student I’d pop out to stanage on a dull winters day do a bit of Bouldering and Solo 10 routes. 60 is mental

Everything is better after a bit of climbing. Is your skin shot though? Maybe some easy/fun problems not projects...?

This is why I set my biometrics up for my little digits too.

Often least battered digits with barehanded activities.

I've been doing a lot of work on the house recently, thankfully iPhone facial recognition is pretty good, the Android fingerprint thing was hopeless for my "lifestyle".

Fabulous reason you had for yours not working OP 🙂

Had same issue once trying to get into our data centre, index finger print wouldn't work after a sesh at the Roaches, boss not happy with the delay getting in for a live issue 😕. Switched to thumb print after that.

* 60 routes. Quite pleased with that. It’s been a while.

Stanage?

Blimey Ron Fawcett only managed 100 in a whole day.

After Cotsduro I was tired enough for my facial recognition to stop working for a while

When I was a student I’d pop out to stanage on a dull winters day do a bit of Bouldering and Solo 10 routes. 60 is mental

It's not as mental as it sounds, although its still an honest day's work. With short, easy routes that are close together you can rack them up pretty quickly especially if you are downclimbing named routes too.

Obviously such activities need rules so we've always gone for each route only counting once but anything with a route grade counts so no boulder problems but those 4m diff downclimbs are in. 😀

Blimey Ron Fawcett only managed 100 in a whole day.

Big Ron did 100 extremes in a day, that's a whole other kettle of coconuts.

60 in a half day is moving well though, especially if there are some VS or above sprinkled in there.

60 in a half day is moving well though, especially if there are some VS or above sprinkled in there.

Absolutely. It's a great way to spend a day and I always found I was climbing really well a few days after such a day as you really got into the flow.

I've done it only a few times, maybe soloing 50 short climbs up to VS in a session. It feels like you enter a different mental state.

Had to disable all fingerprint stuff on my phone. Just not compatible with faming. My (clean!) hands during lambing time....

PS most of the issue is the strong iodine solution we use on the navels of the fresh lambs

Just in case people don't know; you can access the web version of the app (as long as you can remember your password of course)

https://www.nhsapp.service.nhs.uk/login

And because it uses "proper" biometric login; you can reset your password even if you've forgotten it and it won't break your phone fingerprint login.

Just over 20 is the best I managed, soloing easy stuff. With the walk in from public transport, it was a  long day. Very enjoyable.

I seem to remember folk trying to get 100 in.  Mind boggling, bit like those really long Audaxes I suppose.  Being tired and soloing is not a healthy combination. Fingerprints were only of interest to one public service back then.

Just over 20 is the best I managed, soloing easy stuff. With the walk in from public transport, it was a  long day. Very enjoyable.

I seem to remember folk trying to get 100 in.  Mind boggling, bit like those really long Audaxes I suppose.  Being tired and soloing is not a healthy combination.

It's very much dependent on the venue and the routes you choose. I did 100 at Reiff this spring and although I was really pleased with it as a day out, it didn't feel that hard. The average route length was 9m and the hardest were HVS but there were plenty of 6m diffs in there! I know a couple of guys who have done 135 there so 150 seems like an obvious target although I suspect that's beyond me now as you'd need to do a few harder things to get the numbers up.

Back in 2009 when I was going about as well as I ever have done, a mate and I did 50 routes at the Bowdens and Kyloe and that felt like a much bigger thing as they were mostly longer routes and it included stuff like The Sorcerer and Coldstream Corner. It's highly unlikely that I'd manage that now.

One of the things I miss about living in the Highlands is having lots of crags which are suitable for that sort of climbing. There are of course other compensations to living here!

Kinnel hunners of replies!

I don’t think I get that many done in the whole summer, even getting out every week!

We'll I've done 5 days climbing routes this year, and of the 105 or so pitches I've done 90 of them were within the last 24 hours. ( Nipped out to Burbage this morning but wasn't feeling the love and rain stopped play pretty early. )

Stanage

Windgather yesterday. Managed to do everything apart from one buttress ( yep, you guessed it, the " hard" one)

Blimey Ron Fawcett only managed 100 in a whole day.

Yep, but as Spin correctly points out Ron's were hard. I barely did a dozen VS or above.
I did do 100 once and part of the reason for going out this weekend is cos I'm mulling over how many is possible.
Though of course winter is coming...

Had same issue once trying to get into our data centre, index finger print wouldn’t work after a sesh at the Roaches, boss not happy with the delay getting in for a live issue

PMSL 🙂

One of the things I miss about living in the Highlands is having lots of crags which are suitable for that sort of climbing.

Shout if you're ever peak district way. It is of course ideal as it has nothing but pissy little routes

and I always found I was climbing really well a few days after such a day as you really got into the flow.

. It feels like you enter a different mental state.

Mmmm this. It's quite bizarre how you get to the stage where you blithely dreepie off the top of the cliff with your legs dangling trying to locate the footholds for the downclimb. Your brain's going mental if you can't find anything and you're just telling it to shaddup as it's a VDiff and hence there *must* be some footholds somewhere if you just keep lowering. Weirdly I did find the downclimbing the most zen as it required so little effort, just using gravity to drop between big holds.

Much as I hate the expression there really is an elephant in this room isn't there.. 🥺

I don't downclimb because I'm rubbish at it, my brain knows this and I lose the flow. Descent scrambles only, which slows things down a bit...

Currently flat out on the sofa, cream krackered. Did 100 routes yesterday split between Bamford and Birchen. Ended up retreating from a few from semi high up ( from a gritstone perspective, ie not )

Wasn't a positive experience overall if I'm honest. Last few weeks I've been very stressed and exhausted. Despite doing a loads of good routes and a few pushy ones ( for me) it wasn't really fun. More of an experiment really. I was tired when I started and now I'm ****ed. Doesn't bode well for the week ahead.
Anyway, having tried one approach I now need to go the other way to try to regain some fitness and oomph...
I need to do less, much, much less. Less work, less exercise and most of all less hating myself and stressing with my demons. More sleep. More recovery.
And enjoy things. I'm going through the motions just now but I'm not enjoying stuff.

Hmmm

Sounds like a big day there. Look after yourself.

Ha , despite glorious weather I only got in an hour or so's bouldering this morning as I'm having to work most of this weekend.  Warmed up on a couple of problems , then a few tries to get a harder one, and a few tries on something that isn't a project, but I would like to do.

Great to get out 🙂  Not every day can be maximum intensity--

Ended up retreating from a few from semi high up ( from a gritstone perspective, ie not )

10ft off the deck on a typical gritstone crag is plenty enough to **** you up, IME.

At least you're spotting the red flags for yourself. If you're not enjoying it, and you're maybe pushing the solo grade too hard looking for the endorphins or using it to deal with some other issue, time to take a backwards step (not while you're halfway up a route) and do something else for a bit.

Take care.