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hey guys, it is me again! I havnt done any posts for about a year and a half now. that is a long time, but i guess im gonna break the tradition. I have trained hard, but i wish we would do more climbing. for the next 2 weeks, we are not going to do any climbing; just fingerboard and abs amd lots of other strength stuff. also, i cant wait to do all the amazing routes that were just set for the comp on sunday. I have sent (dialed) this awesome pink curciut. it is completely delicate moves on bad holds all the way up.

i will write again soon!

Hey, it's me again, Drew. I haven't been doing my blog for a little while, because of the little situation for nationals. We had to be in ISO at about 7:00, which, take away three hours for west coast time, 4:00 in the morning. But that's when you HAVE to get into ISO, not to wake up. dad said wake up 5:30 east coast time (think somewhere around 2:30 in the morning). Like i said before, I haven't been doing my blog because i was getting my body used to east coast time. I went to bed at 6:00, woke up at 3:30. even today as I write this, at 5:30 in the morning, it's because my body is used to east coast time. anyway, about nationals.I was the 5th person out, because the let the people go out who got higher scores on previous comps. I on- sighted the the first two routes, which where probably v1, and v3-. The next route i got second try. It was techy, with a looooooooooooooong move from the last hold to the finish. My foot slipped when I was going to the finish. I fell off and got back on and finished the route. the last route, i did not get. I got to the 2nd hold, and trying to do a huge move to a kind of bad\good hold. I'd grab it for a split second, then fall off.I thought I wouldn't make it into finals, but my luck held out. Surprisingly, I actually made it into finals, even though I was dead last. I was the first one out at nationals, and i HIKED all of them, all on-sight. I later learned that the routes grades (in order from first route to last route) were v2, v3, v6-, and v5+. Anyway i turned out first, one of my most all time, biggest accomplishment.

TUESday

Two days ago, we had an awesome session consisting of about 3 hours of whatever we wanted to do. I made a knew project route, probably v6 or around that range. It had a giant cross at the beginning, then a huge pull to a sloper, then a throw to a indented crimp, which was a good rest. After that, there was the crux, to a hold called the buttcheeks, then to a pinch, far out left. I mainly focused on that, but I did have a couple other projects. One was black taped route (probably v5-) that had a huge move down to the left. After that, it was about v2 or something around there. Another was a hot pink route that had a really weird move where i had to mantle, then pop to a pinch. the next move was to a sloper, then the crux move pulling up 3 feet to a pocket.

WEDNESday

2 days ago, dad took me to the redmond gym to project. there was a bunch of new routes, and they climbed well. I got a v5-, (so I thought) and on the same wall, almost a v6. there was a really long move on the end, and I didn't wan't to sprain my ankle or something like thattowards the end, I got on a blue v6. I was really tired, and I didn't think that I could do it. there was a roof crux, and I couldn't get past it. finally, near the end when we were going to leave, dad said last try. I psyched up, and sent the whole route, event though I was tired. dad and b-hops asked what got into me, and I replied,"I decided it was gametime."

monday

4 days ago, my family was down at my cousins house. We were leaving on Tuesday, and I really wanted to get some climbing time in. I got to train with max Becker at the clubsport climbing team, and it was awesome. we had to do two v4's, a v5, a 5.10+, a 5.11-, and two 5.12-'s.after that we got to project, and me and max came really close to sending three v7's. It was all because of ONE move that we couldn't get. Bob and Scott were our two coaches, and they gave me and Max good idea's to get our route. they worked, except we were to tired to do them.

clubsport competition

If there's one bad thing that happened yesterday, it's I didn't want to get out of bed. Otherwise, this was the best bouldering comp. that I've ever been to. Me, Baptiste, and dad woke up and headed over to Teo's house to pick him up at 6:00 a.m. We got to Clubsport at about 10:45, and we just went over to whole foods to get snacks, borders, and R.E.I. because Baptiste needed chalk. we got checked in, and we looked at the redpoint and flash routes. ours looked like v6-, or something around there. Nobody in the morning session got our route either. the actual climbing started at 1:00, and I did my flash problem at about 1:45. Believe it or not, I flashed it, first try.I basically did redpoint for the rest of the time, and it went a lot better than last redpoint competition.the hardest route I got in the redpoint climbing was v5 or something around there. As soon as the comp was over, I asked dad if we were going to stay for the awards ceremony, but he said only for results. I got lucky, because they did awards about 5 minutes after they posted results. After we left Clubsport, it was about 5:00, and I guess that was as late as dad was going to be. We were all home at 10:30.

Thursday

3 days ago, for our warm up, everybody did a full gym traverse. Adam said that we had to do every single circuit that we could do, and I got stuck with the green circuit (v2- through v3+) . Me and Baptiste made a super awesome route that we called v7-, because you got so pumped, and some of the moves took me a lot of tries. After we projected for an hour or so, Adam said we had to do 3 one footed routes. After that, we had to go do abs (a.k.a. core) for about 15 minutes. Baptiste led abs, and I had problems getting off the ground because he led abs so hard. I stayed for about 15 more minutes, but i had to leave,