Llandulas Cave

Good easy day out yesterday with my old mate Joe

headed to Llandulas cave just to get some milage in and do some more outdoor routes.

turned out Doylo was there working his project in the cave.

I must say that it isn't the most attractive line to look at but it definately looks like it climbs well and is pretty tough, seemed pretty conditions dependant although.

Eyed up a nice 6c+ that i seen Little Hoppo crush last time we were there.

I jumped on it not very warm and managed to get to the crux placing the clips but then my fitness just ended up letting me down again.

Had a quick rest and jumped back on doing all the moves no problem.

came down and watched Joe crush it on the flash... BEAST!!

Then went for the redpoint and managed it second go :)

All in all a pretty good day so second hardest route this year.

Going to start pushing the grade of onsights and redpoints might try and get a 7b this year

South Lakes Crushing

Today we arranged a trip out to the south lakes, weather wasn't looking too great as we left, even got a splatter of rain on the way there.

Started off by going to Warton Crags only ever been here to look in the rain and couldn't remember much to be honest.

As we walked in we managed to take the wrong turning straight away so went miles away, when we finally found the crags we wern't the best impressed.

Did some easy stuff on the Pinnacle section, with all of us managing to flash the pretty fierce 6C - Beastmaster.

Headed down to the Plum Buttress and realised we needed some beta to do anything of a reasonable standard.

We sacked it to Woodwell where the true crushing began!!

After warming up on some nice asy stuff at Tom's Buttress started to work the harder problems.

Sun was out and it was 2 o'clock so was pretty warm so conditions wern't ideal.

But never the less we carried on, over the whole day i managed to rack up a nice tick list:

Warton

Muscles Crack - V0

The Monkeys Paw - V0

Beastmaster - V4 (6C)

The Graunch - V1 (5+)

Un-named - V3 (6a+)

Woodwell

Nothing To Say - V2 (6a)

Subliminal - V1 (5+)

Nothing To Say Dyno - V7 (7a+) Third go

Whats This For... - V5 (6c+)

Sanctified - V4 (6b+)

Closer - V5 (6c+)

Sanctified Stronger - V7 (7a+)

All in all a great day leaving with 2 6c+'s and 2 7a+'s in a session!!

WELL PSYCHED!!!

Me on Sanctified Strong - 7a+

Start of the Blog

Now that i have finished uni for good.

And i'm not planning on getting a proper full-time job anytime soon i thought it would be a good time filler to start a blog and also is a good record of things ive done and to see if i actually do improve over the next couple of months.

Still getting used to all the settings and things to do with the whole blog thing so things will no doubt change as i start to get used to the settings.

Anyways time for some training:

Still feeling pretty done in after yesterdays session at The Depot, such a great centre with amazing angles and amazing problems.

So an easy day today, 2.5 mile run followed by some core.