Over Feb half term Ceri and I teamed up with the Robins' and Caff and Sophie and headed to the County for four days...wow...great weather (sunny, cold and windy!) and a lovely holiday cottage, much fun. Managed to hammer it and climb every day; Bowden, Back Bowden, Kyloe In and Dovehole etc. I shuffled and scrittled my way up the awesome Alfie Thornton 7c+ and Transformer LH 7c at Bowden (Dog Eat Dog is a great, must do 7a) and The Rack Direct 7c+ at Kyloe In...how Malcolm did this at the end of 40m of climbing is quite something! Also managed The Yorkshireman std 7b+ first go...made up, as it's never easy!
I've been training quite hard over the last month...circuits, sets, circuits, sets...but it feels good to be getting fit at last! Headed to the Orme the other weekend and had two days in the Cave (the mind it say 'yes', but the elbows, they say 'no') which was great. I managed to repeat Trigger Cut 7c+ again after 7 years of attempts with the now 'conventional' beta...more projects as a result, back over this weekend!
Targasonne at Easter for two weeks with Ceri, Barbara and the General...'whoop, whoop' as Anna 'n' Tim would say.
