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Ooh, radical and adventurous!
Oddly, though we drove there through wind and rain and a fairly drizerable Autumn day, when we came out 3 or 4 hours later it seemed as though Summer had returned.
The skies were blue and bright...all the way home, I was reminded of the lateness of the year, by the lowness of the Sun!
Anyway, the big bouldering island in the middle of the gym was reset this week - that is, all the holds were taken off and a whole lot of new climbing problems created in their stead.
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The setting was done by a couple of famous route setters, Rob Napier and Percy Bishton, who regularly create the problems for the Bouldering World Cup and World Championship series, that take place around the world through the year...so we were keen to try our hand(s, and feet!) on some of their problems.
Suffice to say they were fairly hard!
Anna found many of the problems quite reach-y...I found them nicely suited to me from that respect, but quite strenuous and very tiring...this was in part down to the fact that they're almost all overhung, but also just the nature of the problems.
They were interesting problems though, and we did quite a few, including some cool ceiling climbs, which I think we climbed quite nicely on.
We both found ourselves tired though...having exercised regularly in the run up to Font, then climbed every day once we got there, we realised we've come home and done virtually nothing...as of today it was a whole week since we'd done any exercise at all.
All those hard earned gains seem to melt away as soon as you stop training for a few days!
We're going to enter a winter bouldering competition, that requires you to climb regularly all through the Winter...we hope this will get us fit for another trip to Font in the Spring...
We're hoping to have a new member of our climbing party for that trip, which will be fun and different...
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