…And yes again competition climbing today. This time bouldering. Really fun relaxed atmosphere in THEA, Amsterdam (Tussen Hemel en Aarde=Between Heaven and Earth, as the gym is in a church) Climbing with other good climbers who respect each other and are interested in what others climb. Such a good support to be around these people. …
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2 competitions in one weekend
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NSK Sportklimmen
Yesterday (and officially today as well) I competed in the Dutch Student Championships Lead climbing (short: NSK Sportklimmen) And gosh, suddenly I was a little insecure girl, not knowing if I could climb on these walls and if I’d reach a proper place in the ranking. I got completely influenced by arrogant girls who were …
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7c Diablo!!
After a long night a early start (8:30) . We started in Mordor again in the 2e cave. Warming up in Diablo. It took me 2 pushes to get true the crux. but i screwed up after the hard part.. Marianne was going realy strong working out the long move’s true the Crux. So the …
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Ettringen…again (3)
Yes, and again we went to Ettringen. Just for one day. Way too warm to climb and not the focus to climb the things I wanted to climb :( Sometimes I just have a day that things don’t work the way I want them to work. Then I get pumped after 3 moves,don’t have the …
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Spring!
In Iceland you have just two seasons: Summer and Winter. The in-between-version doesn’t exist. Understandable. It’s often just cold there: t-shirt weather is nice, but far not as nice as t-shirt weather in the Netherlands. So, I’m enjoying the sun!
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Worldcup Boulder Eindhoven
Waaa, exciting! I’m going to join the worldcup bouldering in Eindhoven this Summer! It’s now official and on all webpages: climbing.nl, nkbv.nl, the worldcup webpage and more :) Quite scary when people talk about you on webpages and stuff. I’m even in some kind of poll on climbing.nl: “Who is going to be…” bla bla, …
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Etteringen Projects
A long weekend again so 2 days to go to Germany and climb some Basalt. I worked mostly on my air-time.. It was a bit wet again en mosty but we found some nice projects and climbed some cool routes. We climbed Gunman 7b during my OS i was unable to clip the top anker and almost …
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Ettringen…again
Ettringen last 2 days. It was great: rain, cold, humid, but fun! And I found myself two such cool things to do! Couldn’t climb it today, but I’ll definitely go back and get all my strength and power together to climb it! Route 1: Diablo (1e Grotte, Modor) 7c on pure power. Bolted, long moves …
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The weather forecast for today
After a week of rain in Freyr, I was hoping to have better weather this week. But cycling today in wind and rain wasn’t much fun today. I even thought of cycling inside (they call it ‘fitness’). (The picture is no joke, it really was the forecast for today…)
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