{"id":256,"date":"2015-12-30T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-11-28T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T11:13:18","slug":"our-bouldering-challenge-for-sheffield-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Boulder360 – complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 23rd December 2015 my friend Edie and I did the Boulder360 challenge<\/a>\u00a0at The Climbing Works<\/a>\u00a0to raise money for The Sheffield\u00a0\u00a0Children’s Hospital Charity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"About<\/a>
About to begin our challenge!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

We got to The Climbing Works at 11:00 to start our day of climbing<\/a>. \u00a0My Dad made a sign that was attached to our collecting tin that had\u00a0all the information people needed\u00a0to know about our challenge. \u00a0We took this around the centre with us as we climbed so other climbers knew we\u00a0were doing something special and not just climbing for fun.<\/p>\n

We both had on special Sheffield Children’s Hospital<\/a> t-shirts and were both wearing our favourite climbing shoes – FiveTen<\/a> Anasazi LVs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Emily<\/a>
Emily and the collecting tin watching Edie doing a climb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a warm up\u00a0did a\u00a0pulse-raiser which involved running around the castle seven times and then did some mobilising from our shoulders to our toes.<\/p>\n

I did the odd\u00a0numbered climbs and Edie did the even number climbs, but more often than not we both tried each others climbs too. \u00a0We were only going to have one attempt on each climb to make sure we didn’t run out of time, but sometimes if the problem was a fun\u00a0one or we felt we could do it we would have another go (or sometimes another 10 goes!!).<\/p>\n

\"Climbing<\/a>
Climbing on another big overhang.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of our warm up we did the green circuit (which has 40 climbs) and red circuit<\/a> (also 40 climbs). \u00a0These went well as we topped every climb and also got our first donations in the tin!<\/p>\n

We decided to then do the much harder\u00a0black circuit<\/a> (33 climbs) as we didn’t want to leave all the hard ones to the end when we would be tired.<\/p>\n

\"Emily<\/a>
Emily climbing on the black circuit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brian from the Climbing Works then very kindly gave us a hot chocolate to keep us going and Edie did some repairs to my hands with some finger tape – they were beginning to feel a bit sore!<\/p>\n

\"Em's<\/a>
Em’s hands after some running repairs…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we did the yellow circuit (40 climbs) so we didn’t do two hard circuits back to back and we felt we could do quite a few\u00a0of these.<\/p>\n

By now it was lunch time so we stopped for half an hour and had a bit of a rest and another hot chocolate too (yum yum – thank you!).<\/p>\n

\"Time<\/a>
Time for hot chocolate (thanks to the Climbing Works!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next we did the blue circuit<\/a> (30 climbs) and is\u00a0the hardest circuit in the Climbing Works. \u00a0We wanted to get this one out the way while we had some energy after our rest. \u00a0We didn’t expect to top\u00a0any of them but did at least manage to start and even move off on a few of them.<\/p>\n

Then we moved on to the new Irn Bru circuit<\/a> (39 climbs) as a break from the hard climbing we’d been doing before this one. \u00a0We managed to top most of them with the exception of a few which required fresh strength that\u00a0we didn’t have at the time!<\/p>\n

\"Edie<\/a>
Edie doing the splits on the Irn Bru circuit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we decided to do the white (25 climbs) and “murple” (35 mint \/ purple) circuits as these were both very hard to get them done and over with. \u00a0We only managed a few of these as we we so tired!<\/p>\n

\"When<\/a>
When will this ever end?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We then stopped for dinner which was a delicious pizza<\/a> that\u00a0was\u00a0\u00a0very kindly given to us by the lovely people at the Sunshine Pizza Oven<\/a>\u00a0. They park\u00a0their mobile pizza oven outside the Climbing Works on Wednesdays and we recommend you give them a try!<\/p>\n

\"Pizza<\/a>
Pizza time – thanks to Sunshine Pizza Oven (they were delicious!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a good long rest we decided to try the wasp circuit (40 black\/yellow climbs). \u00a0On a normal day we would probably be able to\u00a0\u00a0do most of these but as it was now after 7 o’clock and we’d been climbing for over 8 hours we only managed a few unfortunately.<\/p>\n

\"Emily<\/a>
Emily on a wasp problem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For our final circuit<\/a> we chose the “Pinkles” (40 pink \/ purple climbs). \u00a0We’d saved these to do last we felt we could probably do most of them and this would be a nice way to finish the day. \u00a0We didn’t quite do them all but managed most of them.\u00a0 We were sooooo tired (and pretty pumped!)<\/p>\n

\"Tandem<\/a>
Tandem climbing on the last circuit (the “Pinkles”).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, finally, we were done. \u00a0We’d been climbing for over 9 hours, starting at 11:00 and not finishing until nearly half past eight in the evening and were absolutely exhausted!<\/p>\n

\"Finally,<\/a>
Finally, we’re done! 362 climbs in just over 9 hours! Phew.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We wouldn’t have been able to do this challenge without the support of the amazing Climbing Works\u00a0staff and customers who generously donated over \u00a3200 into our collecting tin on the day.<\/p>\n

As of today we have raised over \u00a3830 – so thank you all very much for\u00a0donating! \u00a0It’s not too late to donate so if you want to please visit our fundraising page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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