S - Winspit with Sean. Grey and damp when we arrived. Good conditions by the time we left. Warmed-up on 5,6a,6a,6b. Finger tweakage on the 6b. Bugger.
Cheers TT. I never thought to look for some reason
I suppose the Power Club headline of my Red trip is that I didn't do a 12a, let alone the 12b ....In terms of how well my training worked, well, I certainly trained pure endurance effectively as I didn't really fail on a single route due to being pumped! However, in real terms this was because while I could climb anything 11a (6b+) and below onsight as I was so attuned to chugging away at this level of difficulty for longer than most routes in the Red last, above that I was powering out before I had a chance to get pumped! There are so many big moves on the harder routes out there and I completely underestimated this, as I'd just been shut down due to lack of fitness on the harder routes last year, didn't have the power-endurance to do that type of climbing continuously this year and only developed so much of it whilst on the trip. Similarly, I trained day-on/ day-off while preparing to go but did three-on/ one-off while over there. It took two weeks to perform well on my second and third days and with this in mind I was cautiously doing routes that weren't too bad when I should have been hacking away at 12s much sooner. You live and learn...