Fun Bouldering Competition

Today was the fun bouldering competition at Ratho. I wasn't sure if I was going to do the comp because I haven't been climbing much but I decided to have a go and enjoy myself. It was really busy and had a good atmosphere in the arena. It was good fun trying out all of the different problems, we had to do 20 problems. Most of them were okay but three of them were more difficult. Although I didn't think I had done well enough to win a prize, I went to the prize giving to cheer for the winners but I was surprised to find I was joint third. I also won a T shirt in the spot prizes. It was a good comp I hope Ratho will organise more fun comps.

Session with Kirsten

Kirsten and I decided we would have a session training together on Thursday night. We started warming up doing some easy boulders and then tried some harder ones.Unfortunately we couldn't get into the bouldering room because it was being set for the fun comp on Saturday, so we only had the problems in the arena to do. After we had bouldered for a while, we chose two routes to do. We did the purple, and yellow. Kirstens dad bought us hot chocolates and then we did some more bouldering. It as good fun training with Kirsten and we are going to train together again on Tuesday.

Back training with McGeek

My first training session with McGeek was the best one I have ever had, he took me to the cafe and we had hot chocolate and planned what I was to do for my training over the next few months.
I then caught a bug and was off school for the next week, so that was a good start to my training. The following week I started my training programme and I couldn't believe how weak I felt, my hands were sore and my feet were really sore, and everything seemed much harder to climb. I just decided to keep climbing and bouldering although I wasn't really enjoying myself. After climbing all of my back and arm muscles were aching, but after a few sessions it became a little bit easier and I began to feel a bit stronger.
I then had my next session with McGeek, which was a top rope session. I had been doing more leading and so I really enjoyed this for a change. We started on the ripple 6b and then blue 7a and then the yellow 7a+ which I didn't manage to onsight. I then did the red 6b+ lead on the tower. I really enjoyed this session and felt more confident having done these climbs.