Summer league round 1

Summer Comp Season Has Begun

The summer has well and truly started with an unexpected heat wave following on from a typically atrocious April and early may. We are lucky to have a most excellent wall to train and climb at and the first round of the Hangar's summer league helped to soften the blow of poo conditions outside!

The series will be 5 rounds long with the best 4 scores counting and when the dust settles, we hope that our finely honed athletes will achieve top spot over all of the categories.

In what will surely be a hotly contested men's category, Mike took a 1 point lead scoring 89 to Rich's 88 in 1st and 2nd place respectively. It will be intriguing to see if gangly technique can overcome brutal strength and a 15kg weight disparity!

The adult females attracted interest from outside the usual local crowd with Jen wood top on 51. Laura came a close 2nd with 48 and becky was 3rd on 38.

The junior men's looks to be as tight as in the adults with Dean and Michael both scoring 78 for joint 1st and Charlie close behind on 73.

Lastly in the junior Female, Megan came top with 36 points and seemingly no other contenders! Seeing as a round can be missed, we will hopefully see more entrants for round 2, especially with the problems being a tad less tough than in round 1.

Upcoming Comps

The end of May and start of June always signals the start of Annual summer comps at several walls.

First up is Rock Over Climbing's 'Rocfest' that will no doubt be as tropical as last years event, with temperatures soaring into the 30s and humidity at 100%!

This is followed by the slightly less manic Bloc Party, held at City Bloc in Leeds, that always attracts a high standard of competition. I'll be sure to write a report of how we get on at these events.