Wednesday, 11 July 2012

British Bouldering Championships

On 7/7/12 I travelled to Sheffield to compete in the British Bouldering championships. I had been training for a long time making my training revolve around bouldering. All I had did the night before was stretch as I like to ride my bike a lot and if you are a cyclist or cycle a lot your self you will know how much you hamstrings tighten.
Any way I turn up at the comp with my Wellington's and my great prana black shorts and my comp vest. I warm up by jogging around looking like a complete and utter idiot but I didn't mind. So 10-15 minutes I go onto the mats and my  2 hours begin  I flashed 4 of my problems but made a small very important error on my fifth problem I had a go of I just jumped of the wall as I knew I mimed to the camera "I will get that next time". As you have probably's guessed I did it with ease so that was that. 
As I was in the junior male category I didn't stand any chance at all of getting in the final and I didn't think I did so I set my goal for that day to podium in Youth C which is my category so after the time had finished I put my outdoor shoes on my Wellington's. I started to get bored and called on my trusty friend Roy Watson to come and discuss mountain bikes on our camping chairs near the end of the over sized tent. 
So I go and look at the results list and it says I have not came third or second but yes it said first. 
I was then British Bouldering Champion for youth C category. 
I then went and cheered on the Female and male finalist's including Molly Thompson-smith a fellow Lyon Outdoor sponsor.

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