Climbing Works

Well it did on Friday night. The Climbing Works bouldering league provided an excellent set of blocs. I completed 18 out of the 25 and am going back today to work on a few that only just got the better of me.

I'll follow this up with a bit of campus work as I haven't done so much of this of late...

One strong arm

We had our second round of team fitness tests last weekend. It was a good day. I think I improved on most things except the wide arm lock due to a tweaked shoulder and the bleep test due to the chilly day and having had a cold recently (yep I've been Typhoid Mary). We'll get our results soon. Our physio checked my shoulder - just a niggle, phew.

My biggest surprise was pulling off a one arm lock off. I knew I was close but didn't think I was quite there. Hurrah for successful training.

We were also shown another set of free weight exercises. Asymmetric work. It's all good stuff.

After a good rest on Sunday I entered the 3rd round of the Foundry League. The blocs were good, but easier than the previous rounds - maybe easing everyone in after Christmas! I flashed all in the level I've entered and did a couple in the next level up, leaving 2 blocs set that I didn't complete.

1-3-5-7

The Christmas leave from work brought lots of time to train :-) It took quite a while to work back up to the level I was training at before Christmas having caught the stomach bug that has been doing the rounds. I run one/two times a week, do one/two sessions of free weights, pull up bar, core and stretching and climb three times a week, one session of which includes campus work.

Training seems to be going well. I got a problem I had been working on for a while that had a long campus like move in it and I was doing 1,3,5,7 on the campus board yesterday. A big improvement from barely managing 1,3,5.


I finally managed to give blood on Thusday evening having been well for two weeks and my chin having healed. I hope my campus flair was not due to this!