Thursday, 17 March 2011

Getting back to it

These past weeks have been goooood! Lots of training last week, to the point of KO'ing about half 9 each night, and a lot of rock this week. I'm feeling the fitness slowly but surely building back up... just in time really as me and byron are heading off in the next few weeks!

Checked out the clifftop boulders and rowtor rocks with byron and gav on saturday, we all loved the crags and did a good range of problems, kudos to the b-man and g-man for doing blood falls (7b) pretty quick.

On the sunday i checked out a crag in cwm idwal, ogwen, with tommy. Weather was gorgeous but we were climbing in the bitter shade of the hills. We did a lot of problems up to 7a+ish with tom smashing the punk... a sweet, dynamic 7c up in't hills!














Tom on the punk, 7c


Monday i met up with dom and eddy at the roaches, dom had already done piece of mind (e6 6b) at about half 8 that morning! I got there to find them attempting barriers in time (e6 6b) and got a few snaps.










Eddy on barriers


Dom and i then headed east to rowtor and gardoms. I did the yogurt hypnotist in a smattering of attempts, first hard-ish thing since my massive lay off, psyched. Dom proved his grit prowess by doing this, blood falls and the truly desperate bus stop mantel (7a+). We then shot to gardoms so i could try suavito, an amazing arete that goes at 7b+ or old skool e5. I should have done it, 4 split tips being my excuse. Keen to return!













Dom on the yogurt hypnotist, 7b


Yesterday i was all prepped for a plastic session at stockport but byrons pantymyn contact informed us all was dry so we shot there for an evening session. It was banging, perfect temps and a chilled atmosphere. We repeated stuff up to 7b, byron was looking good on the be ruthless sitter (7c+) and i got very close to repeating the stand up (7c)

Good times!