Training Log Archive: ToddO

Glasgow's 'The Climbing Academy' before heading to the Youth Hostel for the night before my ski trip.
Purely a bouldering centre this. Lots and lots of wall-space too.
I didn't look very hard at the colour coding system before I started so, after two nice easy ones, I just went for some physical problems with big holds to get warmed-up. Turns out that by picking reds I was near my limit straight away. These ones were mainly really big hand holds (a lot of jugs) with a few nasty footholds thrown in.
The yellows were generally more pinchy and technical but I did a couple of ones that were very steep overhangs early on and they had a few jugs. I wouldn't have made it up later on though because there were some less helpful holds and nastier moves thrown in.
Found a Parkour type yellow where you had to swing yourself and take a couple of rising steps across the wall but couldn't get it.
Lots of variety here, a bit like Eden Rock in that sense.
Found myself mainly doing the yellows, oranges and reds. Oranges were generally easier.
Highlights...
A nasty jug problem in the big cave that called for big twisty moves and a bit of swinging.
An orange in the big cave that was perfect for a campus approach: big jugs that went a long way up.
A red slab where you had to match feet a couple of times and do a brave step-up, step-through and another step-up all with minimal hand holds.
A red that you started doing a one-armed, one-legged plank and then had to dyno around a corner to a big double jug. I held the dyno but realised the next move was another lateral dyno but to an even higher point this time. I got down.
I was pretty happy with how I faired on a couple of pinchy yellows and pinks too. Can't say I finished a pink but I think they started at V4.

Plenty of short chats about problems with folk. I tended to find myself being able to work out most of the tricky moves but I was probably climbing stuff that wasn't hard enough. I liked being able to do a really long session though and I couldn't do that by pushing my limits the whole time.
Did a couple of blues that required pushing up with the hands whilst leaning into the corner: one to finish and one just before my final flourish... To really tire myself out I returned to the big cave to try the nasty red (failed) and the orange campussing (twice). I then re-did the red slab problem and did a couple of easy slab ones but with a bit of hold-skipping.
My arms were twitching by the end. Perfect!

Mikey came for the first time this year... he's still got it! We did some reds and blues together. Saw Brittany at the pizza place afterwards.
Sarah and Luke are both a grade (or 3 in Luke's case) above me now so we weren't doing much in common. Luke made the yellow cave-to-overhang look bloody hard. Just about from where I can get to!
Wil n Lucy arrived last.
Almost got to the last couple of moves on the long green room purple cave problem. Faffed too much early on!
I was quite tired at the end but was surprised to find the, now traditional, campussing finalé not-so-hard. Nice.