Picture: Menno Haas Two weeks ago I competed in the last qualification round in order to qualify for the Dutch Championships. It has been a very strange competition year for me. I competed in three out of four comps, placed every time really good for finals and dropped down in the ranking every single time.…
Picture:Brigitte Wieles Almost fully recovered from my right shoulder injury (partially torn AC ligament), I was happy to participate at the third qualification round for the Dutch Championships. The competition took place at a new boulder gym in Rotterdam called Bolder. My first impression: super impressive! One massive boulder block in the middle with some…
Short story Goal 30 boulders More than 115 people Started 30 minutes late First 2 boulders flash Third boulder topped in 3th try + partially torn AC ligament right shoulder Topped 16 boulders Failed on 4 boulders Didn’t even try 10 others Ended up 3rd Weeks of rest because of injury, probably more than 2…
Pull ups 10×10. After climbing we always do a series of pull ups to regain some fitness. Very boring to watch 😀
Final problem in which I couldn’t match the last holdPicture by Sytse van Slooten In my last blogpost I wrote about my motivation to get fit in 5 days for the first bouldering comp of the year. In the end I trained 3 days and definitely needed two restdays afterwards.I made some quick progression, but…
How fit can I get in one week? Last week I noticed that the first bouldering competition of this year will take place 23th of January in Sterk, a gym very close to where I live… Because I haven’t been climbing much for the past 3 months, I’m probably not fit enough to participate. But,…
As you might have guessed after my last blog post, we had to go back to Stephan in Austria. This time we enjoyed a short week in the sweet Tangern area and got three days on the beautiful boulders in Maltatal. Lizzie!! Something was different this time, because we brought someone with us, Lizzie the…
