It has been a while!

It has been a few weeks since my last blog post and this is for a few reasons. Firstly with not getting outside much it is hard to measure my progression. In the last competition I went up to 21st but still was positioned among the same crowd. But the main reason was boredom of training at the same wall, doing the same routes.

So the first thing I want to discus is monotints climbing. For the size Bournemouth University's climbing wall is very good but there are only so many routes that can be fitted in the space of the main wall and different variations made on the boulder area before they feel the same. So for the past few weeks I have been caught in this limbo of doing the routes I have done before or failing at the ones I can’t do. I’ve noticed that quite a few climbers get this same feeling.

In the past few weeks I have been rethinking my climbing and what I want out of it and how I am going to gain this. I have recently realised that I have not ticked as many climbs as I should have from the time I have been climbing. So my goal from trips outside has changed now. I have changed my focus from trying to get the grade above what I have already achieved to just getting out there and climbing as much as I can. This focus has also moved into my training, to keep motivated I have been making sure each session has a different challenge. Such a working the feature routes or setting climbing projects on the wall.