Last night after the last customers had left I seized the opportunity for a quick half hour stamina session upstairs on the campus board.

With feet on the wooden strips at the bottom, I climbed around the campus board using the 3 small sets of rungs, avoiding the biggest ones, making a series of long, slow movements, pausing, shaking out etc.  I climbed for a minute then rested for a minute and repeated this for 25 minutes.

This is a great way to improve stamina for UK sport climbing where the holds are small but the walls are generally not too steep, I have been doing this for the past fortnight and have gone from being able to shake out and recover on the big rungs to pretty much being able to recover on the medium sized rungs.  My aim is to be able to shake out and recover on the smallest rungs within a month.

I am off out to Chee Dale again on Thursday so lets hope all this training will start to pay off!

Simon

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