{"id":608,"date":"2017-01-29T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=608"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T09:13:30","slug":"youth-climbing-series-2017-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Youth Climbing Series 2017 – Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday on the 28th of January I competed in the first round of the YCS.\u00a0 The YCS is\u00a0made up of three rounds and an eventual national final in\u00a0Edinburgh. To qualify for the national final you must\u00a0place in the top three on average over all three rounds.<\/p>\n

I started the day by reading my routes and boulders whilst chatting to some of my friends who were also competing.\u00a0 I thought that all of the routes looked hard but do-able and the boulders looked equally as hard but more within my ability.<\/p>\n

\"Route<\/a>
Route reading before the climbing started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I then did a rushed warm up (I spent too long reading the routes so didn’t have enough time for an extensive warm up) and after the briefing I met with my category in the bouldering area as that was where we were starting.\u00a0 I would have preferred to have started on routes to get them over and done with but I was still psyched to be\u00a0climbing.<\/p>\n

As there was too many people on\u00a0our first boulder we had to move on to our second one.\u00a0 I wasn’t too nervous as I had route read the climb well and I thought I could do it, my only worry was whether I had warmed up enough.<\/p>\n

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The first boulder problem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got to the end of the problem feeling comfortable throughout most of\u00a0it but there was still a few hard moves that I had to rethink during the climb.<\/p>\n