Last week was a very busy week indeed! On Wednesday I filmed my bit for the Gadget Show at the Edinburgh Indoor Climbing Arena (EICA Ratho). It was an action-packed day and was a very tiring but enjoyable experience. I won’t tell you how I got on in the three races, just to keep the suspense! I don’t know when it will be aired as yet, but it will most likely be the end of November. Unfortunately I couldn’t wear my lovely new Currentbody.com leggings (picture coming soon!) due to advertising rights etc but I will be sure to train and compete in them over the next competitions and events.
After the filming I went on a two-day trip to Dunkeld Upper Cave crag, which is a sport climbing venue about one hour away from Edinburgh. I went with three climbing friends and a dog, all of whom were great company and everyone got some good routes ticked (even Jessie the dog!) I flashed a 7b+ called Hamish teddy’s Excellent Adventure and got a 7c called Marlena 2nd attempt! (first attempt I forgot to take my chalkbag up with me!) We were very lucky with the weather, until we had to descend in the dark and rain on the Friday night after two very tiring days! I even used my mi-Sport on the capillarisation setting in the car to warm up on the way to the crag!
On Saturday I watched a dry tooling competition (dry tooling is climbing on rock or indoors with ice axes and big boots!) at EICA Ratho. I was thinking of having a go at it but decided that I was too tired after climbing for four days on the run (plus I don’t trust myself with ice axes!) It was very exciting to watch and I was appointed photographer for the day! (again, pics to follow!)
On Sunday I did some coaching for the Quickdraw Climbing Club with a fellow British Junior Team member and afterwards I had a short but intense training session. Compex was on the agenda for the evening, an explosive strength session on my biceps and forearms.
Tuesday was my third training session with my regional coach Neil McGeachy and two friends from Edinburgh. I can really see the improvement in my strength from using a mixture of the strength, explosive strength and endurance settings each day on my forearms and biceps. I have also been doing core exercises in the gym such as medicine ball sit-ups, leg raises and planks.
I’m now off to Glasgow Climbing Centre for an endurance session!
Photos to come!
It’s a town, not a crag!
There are crags near Dunkeld, including a sport climbing crag, but to state that “Dunkeld, which is a sport climbing crag about one hour away from Edinburgh”, would probably annoy your Geography teacher somewhat, not to mention anyone that lives there!
You should totally try the dry tooling, you’d kick some ass!