In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:
Last year a mate and me did all the starred E1s on stanage out of the 1989 guide in a day (dawes cover.) We made the rule that they all had to be lead and seconded which clearly made it a bit more time consuming. The reason was because there was no will in the world to make me solo the unprintable.
Some pretty esoteric and nails ones on there 36 in total I think including some that have gone up to E2/3 in the newer guides.
The previous year we did all the starred VSs out of the same guide. I think there was 48 of those.
I climbed with a old hero in South Africa who had done all the routes beginning with V on tremadog in a day. That's good going!
Both were really good and tiring days out. Nothing like doing 500 mind.