Scottish Youth Climbing Championships

Saturday the 15Th of May was the Scottish Climbing championships, which was at EICA ratho. I had been training soo hard for my European competition on the 4Th, and was climbing so strong at the Scottish. I was totally phyced and was climbing really good:). I managed to top all three of my boulder problems, and all three of the qualifying routes. I was joint first with Dylan Mackenzie going into the final. So if I wanted to win I had to climb strong and get to the top! We were in isolation and as we were joint first we had to play rock paper scissors to see who would be out first to climb, I lost the game so I had to leave isolation and climb. I was walking up to the start of the route and looked at it again, I put both hands on the starting hold then started to climb. I took my other foot off the ground and the first hold moved.I came off and was shacking cos Igot a fright.I started to climb again and managed to do some funky moves and get 3/4 of the way up,I was not even pumped when I came off, it was that I missed the last good jug to chalk up and I went for the hold on the roof and my hands just slipped off. Dylan was out next and he managed to climb really strong and get a few moves below me.

For years me and Dylan have been so close at competitions and he always seemed to beat me, but after training lots I managed to become Scottish champion:) woo hoo.