CWIF was good this year. Last year’s CWIF I ended up exhausted and demoralised at how badly I compared to the Wads around me. Despite not enjoying it last year it proved to be a very useful reality check. It taught me a good lesson in the importance of having realistic expectations. It also taught me not to get so focused on competitive achievements to the extent that the disappointment with the end result overshadows the enjoyment of the process.
This year I enjoyed CWIF a lot, and I also managed to get through to the semis finishing 10th overall.
The next comp was BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) – a national comp for uni students. Traditionally Sheffield Uni tends to do pretty well in this comp and 2011 wasn’t much different. Our team (Martin Watson (another GB boulderer), Paul Latham, and me) won the team prize and both me and Martin topped our categories. I was pretty surprised to win since I actually came 2nd to Nat Berry in the very strangely setup ’final’. It turned out the ‘final’ was only for distributing the sponsored prizes though…who knows. We got some great trophies anyway.
This year I enjoyed CWIF a lot, and I also managed to get through to the semis finishing 10th overall.
The next comp was BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) – a national comp for uni students. Traditionally Sheffield Uni tends to do pretty well in this comp and 2011 wasn’t much different. Our team (Martin Watson (another GB boulderer), Paul Latham, and me) won the team prize and both me and Martin topped our categories. I was pretty surprised to win since I actually came 2nd to Nat Berry in the very strangely setup ’final’. It turned out the ‘final’ was only for distributing the sponsored prizes though…who knows. We got some great trophies anyway.
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| BUCS 2011, Martin Watson and me |
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