This weekend I had two climbing competitions. Friday was at Adventure Rock for Battle of the Ages. There I took 2nd place in my category which was ages 14-19. I went up against three people that were on the 2011 National Team. All of the routes I finished were 5.10s. The whole climbing team went up and everyone did good. When I was given my award Craig (owner of Adventure Rock) promoted the Kenosha YMCA Climbing Wall. Also he mentioned the fact that I come from such a small gym and have gone so far. It was a good night of climbing for everyone.
Saturday was the climbing competition at the Kenosha YMCA. I competed in the advance division against three people. I took 1st place leading by 3000 points and was the youngest person climbing in the advanced division. All of the routes that I did were 5.10 to 5.12. Three of the routes were lead routes. Normally I can lead climb a 5.10 but finished a 5.10 as my warm up then was two rocks from the top on a 5.12 lead. The final route was a 5.12 also and I got about half way on it. My award for taking first place was a brand new pair of climbing shoes, a gold rope, and my name on our advanced champion harness. my name is the first one to be put on it!! Sunday we had our climbing league which was an active recovery and a major stretching session. During my active recovery I top roped the final route and flashed it like it was nothing. This year I have already improved about 3 grades in my climbing. I am thinking that I will be able to lead climb a 5.12 by the end of February. Monday I helped teach climbing classes and then after classes were all done I was put into an hour long hard climbing program none stop. I completed the final route lead with one fall. Four of the Six routes for the comp were top rope. Monday night I lead climbed all of the routes that I was to climb during the competition. This is gonna be an awesome season of climbing.
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