{"id":526,"date":"2017-01-01T15:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T15:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=526"},"modified":"2017-01-01T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T15:09:36","slug":"boulder-360-round-two-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Boulder 360 Round Two – Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday on the 21st of December me and my friend Abi\u00a0attempted EVERY climb in The Climbing Works<\/a>\u00a0for The Children’s Hospital Charity<\/a>\u00a0and it\u00a0 was exhausting! (To donate please\u00a0click <\/a>here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

At the start of the day we warmed up\u00a0in The Mini Works but after some failed attempts at skipping in a busy environment\u00a0we headed over\u00a0to\u00a0the big works for a more quiet start.<\/p>\n

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After warming up\u00a0we moved to our first circuit, the greens, we\u00a0warmed up on these and I chose to do odd numbers of climbs\u00a0while Abi chose even numbers. We then \u00a0immediately moved on to the pinkles (pink and purple’s) and the steady stream of donations kept coming as more people came into The Climbing Works<\/a>\u00a0and also our sign attracted the attention of\u00a0more people!<\/p>\n

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We then had some snacks and free hot chocolates\u00a0(a big thanks to\u00a0The Climbing Works)\u00a0but also wasted our energy by messing about, taking photos, videos and trying each other’s climbs which doubled our work load.<\/p>\n

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We then tried the wasp circuit, as this is the circuit we often do in our free time, we wasted EVEN MORE energy by working each others climbs (we would later regret this!).\u00a0 We did quite a few wasps but missed out on a lot due to the strict rule that we set ourselves – only one or two attempts on each climb (of course, we broke this rule almost straight after the wasp circuit!)<\/p>\n

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We didn’t need much rest after this because next we had the DREADED blue circuit. After eating our lunch, we started the blues with absolutely no hope of doing\u00a0any in the small amount of\u00a0attempts\u00a0we\u00a0had set to\u00a0try them in. We were right \u00a0and we didn’t top a single climb but made some good progress on some of the more fun climbs that we both tried.<\/p>\n

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As the red circuit was due to be reset in the following days so it had been taken down, we had to compensate and chose to do the comp wall! A bit of an unfair swap I know but we were both still optimistic and full of energy so we tried every climb and even worked on a few for a while. Part way through our circuit on the comp wall we had a generous donation from some climbing friends and they also bought us a Freddo each! \u00a0We both did about half a dozen climbs and\u00a0as few of them were really hard we were absolutely knackered at the end of it.<\/p>\n

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After a LONG rest and some hilarious hand taping we started the orange circuit with refreshed energy. We were both hoping to do a few of the oranges as they are often climbs that we would do after a few attempts. Unfortunately we only did one or two but once again wasted our energy by trying\u00a0each others numerous times. Near the end of the circuit Abi told me of some pain in her toes from them being squeezed so tight for such a long time.<\/p>\n

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She decided the best option was to tape up her toes and the end result was pretty “interesting”!<\/p>\n

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Next we had to take on the murples (mint and purple) and I was pretty happy when I topped one out of the ENTIRE circuit! As you might have guessed we were pretty tired by this point so decided not to work on these climbs for a long time.<\/p>\n

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We had definitely had enough at this point but dealt with the pain well.<\/p>\n

We now had the blacks which in some way was a relief as we can usually do most of them without too much of a struggle but on the other hand, they usually have big holds and would scrape our skin more so this was a negative for the our hands. \u00a0We did around half of the blacks which was alright considering the circumstances.<\/p>\n

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We then rested for almost an hour and I have to admit we both nearly fell asleep!<\/p>\n

The yellow circuit was second to last and we were both nervous of it as the holds are often very sharp so our raw skin would suffer a lot. \u00a0In the end the holds weren’t too bad and since we had both vigorously taped our skin we could barely feel it. \u00a0We did almost all of the yellows and fell back onto the sofa for another well deserved rest.<\/p>\n

Sunshine Pizza Oven<\/a> kindly donated free pizza’s for me and Abi and they were the most delicious pizza’s I have ever tried!<\/p>\n

Also thank you very much to all of The Climbing Works staff who made announcements and supported us through the entire day.<\/p>\n

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We were finally onto our last circuit after almost nine hours and we were so tired we could barely stand but we had to finish our challenge. We eventually finished climbing at 20:08 \u00a0so far we had raised over \u00a31,000 towards The Children’s Hospital Charity and to add to that total please\u00a0click <\/a>here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Throughout the day we took many videos and photos and soon we will try our best to make a small movie from them which will be released to this blog soon!<\/p>\n

We would like to thank everyone who has made a donation and everyone who helped us complete this challenge!<\/p>\n

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Last Wednesday on the 21st of December me and my friend Abi\u00a0attempted EVERY climb in The Climbing Works\u00a0for The Children’s Hospital Charity\u00a0and it\u00a0 was exhausting! (To donate please\u00a0click here) At the start of the day we warmed up\u00a0in The Mini Works but after some failed attempts at skipping in a busy environment\u00a0we headed over\u00a0to\u00a0the big … Continue reading Boulder 360 Round Two – Complete!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bouldering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6USQ6-8u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}