sawyl | An afternoon of easy training

Getting home from this morning's walk, I picked up my stuff and went for down to the climbing centre for a spot of easy training. After doing some easy warm-ups, I spent the rest of the session doing clip training. My goal was to focus on positioning, to try and get a feel for which holds were better or worse, and which locations were easier or harder. After a series of circuits on the same route, things really came together, with the clips becoming just another part of the sequence.

Working the circuits without resting up between routes helped me get a much better feel for my endurance, giving me the confidence to keep trying moves even when I was starting to feel seriously pumped. I also found that because a couple of the others routes crossed close to the one I was doing and I didn't want to get in the way of people who were actually trying to send new stuff, I spent a lot more time hanging around and shaking out than normal. And I that too helped with my confidence: I found that if I picked a good rest, I could hang around for a fairly long time, shake out, get a lot back, and then motor up the last part of the route.

All in all, a good afternoon session. It would've been perfect but, somewhere between my place and there, I managed to sunburn my shoulders...