Seaside and TCA Bristol

I had a lovely weekend in Torquay with Pete and the 'in-laws'. Fresh sea air, some sunshine and good food.

We went to The Climbing Academy a new bouldering wall in Bristol for training. Lots of fun blocs, colour coded into circuits. We had a warm welcome - friendly staff and locals, and underfloor heating.

Absolutely no need for my leg warmers.

I tried several of the blocs on the hardest circuit. Quite a range of grades from easy flashes to long, hard thuggy ones that I couldn't quite get. Can't comment on grades as I'm naff at that. A good variety of styles. I decided to do several of the blocs with 'bunch of grape' style sloper holds and enjoyed swinging across the long roof.

SWBL

I had a good Friday night league comp at the works coming 2nd on the night. This placed me 2nd in the SWBL and 4th in the works league having missed a round. I got furthest up the Percy's special women's problem, but didn't top it so no £50 spot prize :-(

A team training weekend at the Awesome Wall Stockport followed. We did super hard problems on the Saturday and had a mock comp on the Sunday. The Earl set some fun blocs to break ourselves on. I won the semi and the final. I'm nicely tired and achy now :-))

Has anyone got any spare fingertips?