Going for a climb

I've got a few friends who like to go climbing, and I've been a few times before, but here is my blog post about climbing.

What I do when I go isn't really climbing, it's bouldering. And to be honest, climbing with all the harness and safety gear isn't all that fun (done that before too).

This wall looks like it's got measles

To begin with, I'd get a bit bored of climbing. When you're nearly six foot tall with an armspan that would surround Hagrid fairly easily, when you first start and aren't too strong, you'll just do what's easiest for you to manage, so you don't follow any of the coloured routes. So really, you just end up stepping from hold to hold.


It's not until you've gone a few times that you build up your strength, and you start challenging yourself to try other bits that you start to feel the difference. I've not managed to drag myself up a wall that's tilting towards me yet, because I don't have the strength in my arms yet, and for the love of christ warm up before hand (tennis elbow is a menace in climbing apparently..), but it's a relatively cheap activity to just build up general strength and fitness.

You'll ache like buggery the first few times you go, but it's definitely worth it.

Here's a test shot of the place in Sheffield we went to;

And here's a link to the place in Nottingham I've been to as well. Both awesome places to spend an afternoon.