Injury!

Its seems unreal... they are allways saying how you should be carful about getting injured but it just doesnt really redgister... and when it happend, I knew what they had been talking about the whole time! It is torture not to be able to climb! as jimmy said... its like being in a sweet shop but not being able to have any of the sweets. Surprisingly I injured my arm during swimming I wasnt even climbing! I kept hearing people say to me oh i didnt know swimming was a dangerous sport : P lol. It was odd, I was at a swimming gala (race) for school on friday and I was dived in the pool for the warm up and it was all fine and then as I came out of the water in my frontcrawl 50m I took a stroke and my arm dislodged and it was extreme pain but as i moved my arm back into the water it went back into place so I just carried on the race and managed to win but it wasnt quite right... my arm felt really sore, I then did the relay and no serious pain this time so figured it was ok. Then after school I went swimming and all was good until climbing afterwards everytime i hung off that arm it really hurt so i decided it wasnt worth the pain. We went to see the physio and she said I had a swollen tendon and i shouldnt climb for three to six weeks but she would let me have the exception of the ycs but my arm would have to be strapped up. So it was all pretty good appart from the not being able to climb part. She said it was not a full dislocation because I would have been screaming and would not have been able to carry on swimming but it was still a slight dislocation so i should be carful.

YCS round 1- Aberdeen

On saturday we went down to Aberdeen to compete in the first ycs round, I came third but am really hoping to do better at the next one. Here are some photos of the day,

Me on the first boulder problem

Dad enjoying judging : P

Me on one of the boulder problems.

Cummingston

All i can say about it was that it was freezing! It was soo cold!Admitedly it wasnt as cold as our last visit to cummingston but it was still quite seriously cold! We did our warm up route to begin with this didnt help much with the "warm" up part of it. So whilst waiting for the parents to set up a top rope for the prow we did some bouldering and once the tope rope was set up we all had a shot at the prow, Steven topped it and so did Ellen.

Then it was my turn and i managed to get to the point just before it starts to lean out and i started to panic because someone just before hand had said that noone should fall from there because if they did they would fall and hit the rocks underneath. So i decided to climb down because i didnt want to risk it and then. Nikki had a shot after me and she made it to that same point and fell but made it miles away from the rocks so i decided i should have a shot again and i did and i made it further but didnt top it unfortunately, i also made it further than the last time i did so i hope that one day i could come back when it is alot warmer!

Me climbing on the prow

(thanks to jimmy for the picture!)

hopefully some more pictures to come...

Skiing

On febuary the 14th The whole family went out skiing, it was soo great and the snow was extremely deep. havent realy got much to say except it was great fun!


Mums amazing photographie! : P



Me looking like a complete novice!



Ummm guys? i am stuck... a little help??



After that larry decided he wanted to see how deep it was on him...



He then got stuck. : D

GB team training

The day after the comp at inverness we had a training at scotts. Luckily I got the chance to go to it because there werent that many people from the team there that time so i managed to get a place even though i am not in the team. Was so pleased to take part... but the pain after training... was something quite different, even something as simple as walking up the stairs became a mission after training! It was such a great day though. We went to the beach in the morning for some seriously hard warm up! ( not even sure i would call it a warm up! ) my legs were in agony after wards. we did lots of things at the beach for example we had a rope and we teamed up in 2 and the person infront had to have the rope round them and the person behind them had to try and hold them back whilst they were running making the leg muscles work ten times as hard as normal.

Nikki being dragged along by steven!

After that we went back to the wall and had a bit of a work on our technique, this was not so bad but had some good ways to inproove heal hooks and precision. We then went on to do some work on specific muscle... such as wheelbarrow racing! we did this for a few times and we then went on to do it up the stairs... rather a dreading thought and the fact that scott kept saying dont knock all your teeth out and i had literaly just got my braces out i wasnt enjoying the thought of possibly loosing teeth! but it all went ok nobody lost any teeth. so after just normally going up the stairs we had to do a puch up and then we could move up a step, this was increadibly hard!!

wheel barowing up stairs!

After doing this we went for a session on the roof but this was not an ordinary session on the roof this was backwards. We climbed up to the point where it reaches the roof and then climb out a little bit and then we would have to turn around and then climb feet first and this was soo unbelievably hard at points it was crazy! to say the least! at the end of the day we warmed down with some streches and such. It was a great session and i dont thing i will ever forget the pain that came the day after but i think i would do it all again if i had to. Thanks alot to scott for this amazing training session!

Boulder comp at Inverness

On friday there was a boulder comp at the Inverness wall, it was a great comp that had some Extremely challenging problems!! and some easier problems there was a savage catagorie (savage is NOT an understatment) we went into this catagorie at first but found it quite tricky... to say the least. So we then did the placid catagorie instead and it had some good routes. Everyone did very well at the comp and it was just a fun day at the wall it was really great! I really hope that it will happen again!

snow hits the north of scotland

Snow has finally hit the north of Scotland! Finally! I haven't been on the blog to update the latest of my climbing news because i have been having too much fun out in the snow. It is really thick and there is even more snow expected! while all the snow has been great we have also been out at quite a few comps... like the inverness boulder comp, the british team training, and the scottish bouldering championships. I will elaborate on these comps in the next few blog enteries.

Practice skiing... needs quite a lot more work!!