ABS Regional Climbing Comp

Yesterday my family and I drove down to Portland to attend the Regional Citizens Boulder comp at The Circuit. Once we arrived there, we were informed that this comp was canceled and so we had to do the Onsight comp like everyone else. This was a blessing in disguise. This was at say 10:30 or so and they took my brother and put him in Iso right away. I had about an hour or so until it was my age group's session to climb.

As my parents were watching my brother climb, I went to Subway to get some food since I could not watch him climb. I go into Subway and wait in line for 5 minutes or so until I realize why the line was going so slow. The reason was because there was one guy working because his co worker did not know his shift for that day. I felt real bad for the guy working because it was one of their biggest days for business because of the comp and he going as fast as he could trying to get every one their food.

After I finally get my food I head into Iso with Jimmy at around 12:15 or so. Once in there we meet up with Megan and hang out for about an hour. From there we streched and warmed up before it was my turn to go out and climb. I was really nervous when it was my turn to climb since it was my first time doing one of these. It was nice because I got to sit next to Jimmy during the stations who gave me advice during the comp.

The first problem we did was a slopy route on quite positive holds. The crux was reaching around the top to grab a hold you could not see. This is where I fell. I was really close to flashing it and should have easily except I was nervous I guess and could not see . This fall cost me about 7 points and some skin. The second problem was bigger moves on slopy jugs. I felt I should have done this route but could not get past the third hold or something bad like that. The third route was ridiculous. There was a jump start and then a big move to a crimpy little thing to which you had to campus to. I failed at this point multiple times and just stopped since it kept costing me points for every failed attempt. The fourth and final route was probably like V9ish. There were two jugs on an underhang then a huge move to this nasty sloper which continued on another nasty sloper and finished on some crips before gabbing the final jug. I did the first part easily then was dumbfounded on how to get to the sloper so I stopped.

These routes were really hard for the Male Youth A's. The same routes were use for the Male Juniors and 2 of them for the Female open category. No one did the fourth route while only one person managed to finish problem number 3. Althought these routes were out of my range it was great experience trying to flash difficult routes and I will definatly be doing onsight next year!

I don't expect anyone to read this and if you actually are still reading up to this point you are probably just as bored as I am while writing this.