Spring's plastic fever

Hey :-) 

Time flied and it's more than 2 month ago that I wrote something. So let me summarize what happened in the last weeks. I participated in three Austria Cups and in between I trained solely in different gyms because I simply didn't have the time to climb outdoors. The first Austria Cup was a lead competition in Mitterdorf. The comp went quite well and I got 7th (results). Two days later the next Austria Cup took place in Neunkirchen. This time it was all about bouldering. I wasn't too pleased with my climbing that day. In the end I finished on the 15th place (results). After this event I had roughly three weeks to prepare myself for the Austrian lead championship which took place in Dornbirn. This comp was my main goal for the season so I was a bit nervous, maybe that's what caused my failure. I felt strong and well prepared but unfortunately I messed up the first qualifying route. I climbed nervously and misread a sequence in the upper third of the route. The result was bad, I was 22^nd  in this round. I knew that I would be almost impossible to get into finals with this performance in the first round, so I climbed the second route with indifference.  The result was ok, I came 12^th in the ranking of that one. Altogether I finished on the 18^th place (results) which was definitely below my expectations, as I my objective was to make finals, but I guess it’s part of competitions to sometimes fail in reaching one’s goals. Nevertheless, it took me some days to get back on track. The national lead season 2014 is over now (overall ranking) and in the next weeks I’m going to do some rock climbing. After all the training in the gym I’m really psyched to touch real rock again :-)

¡Venga!

Some impressions of the comps (massive thanks to my friend Andi Aufschnaiter who took a couple of these amazing pics, feel free to check out his webpage, you’ll find some exciting stuff there!) … 

Austria-Cup Hallein

Hey guys :-)

In my last post there was really a lot of text; that's why I'm going to focus on some pics this time. Just a few words what this post is about and how it went for me. It was a bouldering A-Cup, which took place in Hallein one week ago. I had a great time and really liked the event. I finished on 17th place, which is my best result in the adults' category so far :-) I could have ended up around 14th place if I hadn't messed up one problem which involved a dynamic move (took me 13 tries and was quite easy after changing my approach ^^). Nevertheless, I'm pleased with the result :-). My thanks goes to Patrick Bischof, who took all the pics of me climbing, to my teammates, and to my coaches Hari Penasso and Andi Matuska, who were very supportive, as always :-). By the way, Andi made a very impressive send at one of the local crags, close to my hometown. Check out this video of him climbing Public Enemy (8c).

Some links which might be interesting: Complete results, impressions of the comp (by Patrick Bischof and myself)

Hope you like the pics :-)

Keep climbing!