I was worried
how I would perform as my hectic life has made doing all the training I want
difficult. However at least this was
well timed for a few days away as it was reading week, so I would not miss too
many lectures. I gave Luke a lift to
Stanstead on the Thursday night, to fly out on the Friday. Friday night the running orders were
announced and I was to be first up, with the difference in time I was to be
competing at 8am UK time.
Senior qualifiers |
I had a good
read of what would be my first route (2nd qualifier), the plan was
to go from the orange pocket, crossing left onto the crimp, then going right
out to a sloper, then turning the left crimp to an undercut and finally
crossing right to another sloper in the roof.
I was such an idiot, when I got to the first sloper I tried to left
shoulder to the sloper in the roof – this was really stupid, it was too hard to
undo my mistake and I fell. How often do
I make silly mistakes! I was really disappointed;
I passed the beta onto the rest of the team. I just had to focus on my other
route. This went much better, I stuck to
my route reading and I could give useful beta to a decent height to the rest of
the team. I ended up 33rd on
this route, but 49th overall.
It’s so frustrating knowing I have the fitness (so better nutrition is
working), it’s just getting the brain to work.
Hopefully next year I will put two decent performances together at one
of these comps.
For a lead
climber I have been busy taking part in the Northern University Boulder Series
(NUBS), I have done two of these rounds so far, my second round was an
improvement on my first, (better route reading).
This weekend
I took part in the Plywood Masters Bouldering Competition, and completely
shocked myself by making the finals. I
was really worried about how hard the problems would be in the final, however I
surprised myself again and finished 5th overall.
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