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Sporadic Updates, Sporadic Climbing and shed load of running

Sporadic Updates, Sporadic Climbing and shed load of running

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It’s been an awful long time since I’ve updated here. It’s also had been an awful long time since I bouldered! The running kinda took over in 2013, culminating with running and completing the my first Marathon, the first York Marathon. I’d set myself a public goal of under 4hrs 30mins, and a private target of actually breaking 4 hours, and surprisingly I managed it! All the training for that though made a lot of climbing a bit more difficult….

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Training!

Training!

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I’ve felt like I’ve been stuck at the same bouldering grade for a long time; managing 6a -> 6b+s at the Climbing Works for most of the year after my hand had healed, and I was pretty much at the same last year before I broke my thumb. So I decided I’d get a training session with Dave at the climbing works again, hopefully without breaking my thumb this time. 😉 Dave had me do a couple of climbs to…

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Continuation

Continuation

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Well, it’s going ok so far! An impromptu work night out meant I couldn’t run as planned on Tuesday, but a really good but extremely sweaty evening at the Climbing Works on Wednesday night kicked the week off. New green and reds circuit up which was mostly long, stamina sapping climbs with a couple of upside down problems on there. Was very happy with how I managed on them, and despite it being a MILLION degrees in there I had…

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Getting back on the Wagon

Getting back on the Wagon

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So, it’s another of those “I fell off the Wagon, I’m getting back on” posts. Except it isn’t really, I think. I dunno. I broke my thumb, which kinda messed stuff up a bit, but still went to Font and climbed with it. When I got back, work was really busy, and I just couldn’t get straight back into it… So, here I am, not quite in shape, getting frustrated at not being able to climb stuff that should be…

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A critical error has occurred: Operation Fail.

A critical error has occurred: Operation Fail.

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I’ve been meaning to post in here for ages.  I’ve been doing quite a bit of climbing recently, bouldering twice a week and getting back on the leading band wagon.  Frankly, it’s been great.   Even better, I’ve booked another climbing holiday:  10 days out bouldering again in Fontainebleau taking advantage of the long Easter weekend and that random wedding thing. It’s getting close to the end of the financial year and I had 8 days of holiday to take, so…

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Out of (leading) shape

Out of (leading) shape

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I went to The Foundry the other day with Chris from work and did some leading.  It must be the first time I’ve been climbing indoors for about  6 months, despite an awful lot of bouldering,  and bloody hell I felt it. I managed a 5a warm up, then started feeling it on the 2nd climb, a simple 6a. It got unbearable at the top of a 6b, causing me to bail and meaning I couldn’t finish a 5+ next…

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Oops.

Oops.

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I seem to have entirely failed to keep my blog up to date. Ah well! I’m not going to recount all I’ve missed, that might take too long. Instead I’ll continue as I was going…. TARGETS! I’ve decided my targets for 09: 1) Lead a 7b. Ouch. I’ve managed a couple of 7a’s in the past year, and they’ve remained hard, but I’ve not been able to push harder than that. I really need to work on pushing through this…

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Sheffield Bouldering League Round 2!

Sheffield Bouldering League Round 2!

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Last night was the 2nd round of the Sheffield bouldering league at “The Matrix” a bouldering wall at the Sheffield University. They never had that when I was there! The set up was the same as the last round: 25 different problems of varying degrees of difficulty. 10 points for completing flashing it, 7 for completing it on your second attempt and 4 points for your third. If you don’t finish it, but get past a marked hold, you get…

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My First Bouldering Competition

My First Bouldering Competition

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I’m not really the competitive sort, but having seen the notices up around The Foundry for the Sheffield Bouldering league I was tempted to try it out. I was fully expecting to come bottom but decided that it would be good for the experience, and even if I managed 2 climbs, at least I’d have something to measure myself against next time! So, to the day. I’d had a rather knackering day at work and very nearly went straight home…

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