January 11 and 12 was divisionals at Climb Iowa. I didn't climb until the afternoon so I had all morning to do pretty much nothing. I so went to the gym and watched the competitors that climbed in the morning. The routes in the morning looked really difficult but only because they were technical. The setting crew was the same crew that was setting at Midwest Regionals. I wasn't climbing till around 4:30 and Iso closed at 1:30 so I still had to be back in Iso for a little more than 3 hours. I checked in around 12:30 because I was getting bored of waiting. Since I had a ton of time, I decided to take a nap and listen to music. The nap part didn't work as well as it could it have because the room was rather little and crowded. After a while my nap wasn't working to well so I started playing cards. We played cards till it about 3 o'clock and I started stretching and warming my body up. Around 3:30 I started climbing and I warmed up really fast because there was a perfect section of wall with routes or each type of hold. I did a couple of laps on the jugs route just to warm my hands up. After my hands got warm I started working on other types of holds. The only type of holds the didn't have in a route was pinches. There were a few routes that had some pinches in the so I tried to get on them. I climbed about 3-4 routes at a time, then stretch. I continued climbing until they had me check in. It was my time to go to my first chair and sat in the chair listening to music until the judge took my score card. My first route really wasn't all that hard but I hard time getting the finishing moves. I was able to get just a bit further in the last 15 seconds. I was really happy with how much more i was able to push in the last few seconds. My second route was a lot of fun and really wish I could have figured out the rest in the first minute. The beginning of the route was technical then there was a power move to a jug. The hold really wasn't that far away it was just awkward to get to. I was able to get the the hold but I was unable to get my feet set in order to stick the hold. I was able to hold on the hold and get my feet set but I was not able to move off the hold. My third route was slopers the whole way up. I was able to get the start and the next few moves but i got stuck where the feet started to move up. So I looked at the route for quite some time and realized I need to switch my feet in order to get the next move. I figured the move out then got one hold further after that. I got stuck after getting the move because I was unable to get my feet up where they are needed. I have to say that my last route challenged me the most. The was was all volumes with screw on hold on them. I was hold to get the first volume and try to make a move to the next hold. I was really happy with how I did at Divisionals because bouldering is not my strong suit. The whole time I was climbing, I was just laughing it didn't matter if I fell or not. I was having a ton of fun! I ended up taking 15th but I was fine with that because I know I did my best and had fun doing it.
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