In the morning we had breakfast, put our last things in our bags and tidied our rooms; I did the vacuuming. We were ready to go about an hour before our bus arrived so we hung out in Imst and bought food from the bakery. When we came back our bus arrived and we travelled to Munich. We checked in at the airport and had lunch. On our flight to London I managed to sleep for about an hour.
It took a while to get through customs because there were lots of people. We caught our next flight to Edinburgh and once we arrived we picked up our rental van and Glenda drove us to our accommodation. James didn't drive us because he had forgot his drivers license. Our accommodation was a cottage for Mark, Chase and Jesse; a cottage for the rest of us guys; and the girls were staying at another place. We had Indian for dinner and went to bed.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday 6 September
We went to the gym and tried some of the competition climbs. When we were finished trying comp climbs some of us did speed practice. In the evening we packed our bags because we were leaving the next day.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Sunday 5 September
We went up a track to the alpine coaster like last year and had fun going down the luge. It was much more fun on my last ride when I didn't have slow people in front of me and I didn't have to brake the whole way except at the end. I don't understand why some people don't go as fast as they can; the whole reason I went down the luge is so I could get excitement and enjoyment out of going down the track, so wouldn't going down faster mean someone has more fun?
Friday, November 5, 2010
Saturday 4 September; Austrian National comp
We went to the gym in our NZ uniform and when we got there we got given competition t-shirts that all the competitors had to wear.
My first qualifier went up a slightly overhanging wall with a little roof at the top. It then swung onto a flat wall facing the first wall and toped out.
Wiz and Josh topped out but me and Peanut fell off near the top.
Our next qualifier went up a gradually steepening wall then onto a massive roof with a 45 degree headwall at the end.
Me and Peanut fell off just before the roof, Josh fell off on the roof and Wiz climbed really well and fell off going to the headwall.
The top ten climbers in each category went through to the final and those of us who went through were:
Junior Male and Youth A Male (all one category)
Jesse
Junior Female and Youth A Female (all one category)
Speedy
Sarah
Youth B Male
Wiz (coming 3rd!)
Josh
Sarah had gone to the supermarket with Mark and Glenda and would have come back in time but the final was moved forward an hour. James told me to run and get her but I think it was too late by then and I couldn't remember where the supermarket was and ran past it. By the time I got back to the gym the finals were starting.
Wiz didn't climb as well as he did in the qualifiers and came 8th. I think Josh came 4th or 5th, I think Jesse came 6th and I think Speedy came 7th, 7th= or 8th. Sarah came 9th, I came 12th or 13th and Peanut came 15th. I can't remember where Tayla and Alex came and Mark didn't compete because he had an injured finger.
After the finals we did Speeds; the route was the official route but with the top hold spun around. There were just two categories, Male and Female. In the qualifiers I had the fastest time out us NZ guys, but in the round of 16 Jesse got a faster time than me, 19.12.
After the prize giving, in which some of us got prizes, we played at the play ground by the gym for a bit. Someone had thrown Tayla and Alex's jandals onto a weedy bank. When we were about to leave I went and collected them but when I thew one of Alex's jandals off the bank it didn't quite make it past the weeds and I looked for it again but I couldn't find it. We all searched for ages but couldn't find it. When me and Alex looked for it again the next time we were at the gym we still didn't find it.
My first qualifier went up a slightly overhanging wall with a little roof at the top. It then swung onto a flat wall facing the first wall and toped out.
Wiz and Josh topped out but me and Peanut fell off near the top.
Our next qualifier went up a gradually steepening wall then onto a massive roof with a 45 degree headwall at the end.
Me and Peanut fell off just before the roof, Josh fell off on the roof and Wiz climbed really well and fell off going to the headwall.
The top ten climbers in each category went through to the final and those of us who went through were:
Junior Male and Youth A Male (all one category)
Jesse
Junior Female and Youth A Female (all one category)
Speedy
Sarah
Youth B Male
Wiz (coming 3rd!)
Josh
Sarah had gone to the supermarket with Mark and Glenda and would have come back in time but the final was moved forward an hour. James told me to run and get her but I think it was too late by then and I couldn't remember where the supermarket was and ran past it. By the time I got back to the gym the finals were starting.
Wiz didn't climb as well as he did in the qualifiers and came 8th. I think Josh came 4th or 5th, I think Jesse came 6th and I think Speedy came 7th, 7th= or 8th. Sarah came 9th, I came 12th or 13th and Peanut came 15th. I can't remember where Tayla and Alex came and Mark didn't compete because he had an injured finger.
After the finals we did Speeds; the route was the official route but with the top hold spun around. There were just two categories, Male and Female. In the qualifiers I had the fastest time out us NZ guys, but in the round of 16 Jesse got a faster time than me, 19.12.
After the prize giving, in which some of us got prizes, we played at the play ground by the gym for a bit. Someone had thrown Tayla and Alex's jandals onto a weedy bank. When we were about to leave I went and collected them but when I thew one of Alex's jandals off the bank it didn't quite make it past the weeds and I looked for it again but I couldn't find it. We all searched for ages but couldn't find it. When me and Alex looked for it again the next time we were at the gym we still didn't find it.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Friday 3 September
We did some home work in the morning and went climbing in the afternoon. We packed for the next day in the evening.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Thursday 2 September
We went for a wander after breakfast and I found a soccer ball. We did lots of climbing after lunch then went back and had nachos for dinner. In the evening we went for a walk up a steep road passing the ball to each other on way and having to get ourselves and the ball out of the way of cars going up and down the road.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Wednesday 1 September
We got up, had breakfast and packed our bags. Some of the others went for a wander but I didn't because I was still packing. We caught a train to Munich then another train to Innsbruck, Austria, and one final train to Imst followed by a taxi to our accommodation. In the afternoon we went to the climbing gym and did some climbing.
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