Category Archives: Leading

Youth Climbing Series 2017 – Round 1

Yesterday on the 28th of January I competed in the first round of the YCS.  The YCS is made up of three rounds and an eventual national final in Edinburgh. To qualify for the national final you must place in the top three on average over all three rounds.

I started the day by reading my routes and boulders whilst chatting to some of my friends who were also competing.  I thought that all of the routes looked hard but do-able and the boulders looked equally as hard but more within my ability.

Route reading before the climbing started
Route reading before the climbing started

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5 New Years Resolutions

Sorry about this being a bit late 🙂

I would really like 2017 to be an amazing year for my climbing progress and I have decided to make five new years resolutions to help me improve.

#1- Blog Every Sunday

Even though this is not a climbing goal, it is something I would love to do in the new year as I really enjoy writing these  blogs and, hopefully, it would partly motivate me to train so that I have even more to blog about.

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