January 26 the team headed up to Adventure Rock for the in house competition. I was competing in advance while most of the team was competing in intermediate. I started off by getting a warm up of different types of holds. I was going to be a different day because I had just recently cut my finger while climbing a few days before, so I was missing the pad of my finger. After my warm up they went over rules then the climbing started. I warmed up on one of the lower point routes. I then started to work my way up in points. The first route I did was about a 5.10. The holds that were on the route had small pinches sticking off the holds. I finished the route but it was a little difficult. One of my lead routes was about a 5.12 and I was able to make it to the second draw and fell. This route was just a bunch of huge pinches and some of them are so big they are hard to grab. My other lead route had purple crimps on it. I t was relatively easy but when I had to make a drop knee move and lean back in to a hold I was unable to grab the route due to the cut on my finger. The bouldering problems that I had to do were a lot of fun. One of them you had to go under the bridge part of the wall and up the back side. It was a really cool route because in order to do the move you had to heel hock the hold that you are still holding on to. The back side of the route did not get any easier, the holds became big slopers and a couple small crimps. I completed 3 of my 7 routes and 3 of my 5 boulder problems. The wait for the bouldering problems was really long so i wasted a lot of time that I could have used to get a second chance on routes that I did not finish. I finished my last attempt on a boulder problem and had 30 secs to get on the wall. Since I left the easiest route for last that is where I went because every one else in that division had already completed this route. I was on the wall when there was 3 seconds left on the clock. I got to finish my attempt on that route. I took my time making sure that I was not rushing any moves that may cost me my attempt on that route. As I got closer to the top to more excited I got because I knew I was going to be able to finish this route with ease. When I was done I headed out to the truck to put extra gear away and waited for results to be posted. I was really happy with how I did because I had cut my finger pad off just days before. When I saw that I took 15th I was pretty happy with that because I had just started climbing back to normal again. In between the morning session and the afternoon session I went and got food. During the afternoon session I was taking photos of kids that are on the team that were climbing. When they were not climbing I was watching the people in Open climb their route. It was super cool to watch how they climb and how hard their routes are. When the afternoon was over we waited for results to be posted and for them to announce what time finals would actually be taking place. We stayed to watch all the finals along with taking videos of each climber that was in finals. We did not stick on for awards because we were too tired and wanted to get home before everyone started to leave.
That Monday we headed back up to Adventure Rock to give another shot at the routes that I was unable to finish. I attempted the Women Advanced final route and made it to the same sport as three of the competitors did. I was really happy with how I did Monday because I completed some routes that I did not finish or have the option to attempt. All videos and photos from the competition including the final videos are all loaded to Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube. Check them out because there are a lot of really neat photos of the routes that I had to do.
