ABS 10 Nationals

So this weekend did not go quite as planned but oh well we made the best of things.  Friday I began my drive to DIA to fly back east to spend valentines day in the gunks with Lexi.  However Colorado had different plans for me.  Friday afternoon I-25 shut down due to a crazy snow storm.  Despite my best efforts I could not make it to Denver and was forced back to Laramie.  So basically my weekend was ruined I had been looking forward to this trip since I went back to school in January.  Oh well so Friday was terrible but I decided to make the best of things on Saturday and make a trip down to Boulder.  So I got in my car and drove down to the spot to watch my friend Annie climb and watch the finals at night.  Annie was pulling down strong as always and put on a good show for all of us.  Later we got some dinner and began our wait to get into finals.  IT WAS PACKED.  As always the community really showed their support. Now for the action at 7 o'clock it began.  First I want to mention all the people at the spot and usa climbing who were responsible for putting this comp on.  You guys did a great job!  Now for the climbing.  The men came out strong among them were Paul Robinson, D Woods, S McColl, C Traversi, and E Pringle to name a few sorry Im writing this during my lunch so I don't have time to mention all the mutants which were there.  On the women's side we saw A Johnson, A Puccio, L Rands, and C Cox sorry once again I don't have time to list all of you.  Any way for the men Woods won it all followed by Robinson then McColl.  At world cup Woods, Robinson, and Pringle will be representing. For the ladies AJ won it all followed by Cox then Puccio.  Those three will be going to world cup as well. Congratulations to all for an awesome comp!

-Mike

weak become heros session

Yesterday out of now where I got very sick very quickly.  My dorm is most likely the cause of the sickness due to the fact it hasn't been cleaned in over 3 months.... Anyway when Im sick I usually feel the need to go climb and thats exactly what I did.  I drove the trusty jeep up to the voo and preceded to walk through the mounds of  snow to a problem called weak become heros.  This problem is one of my goals for 2009 and it almost got ticked off on a sick day session!  While I tried this thing several times during 2008 I could only manage the opening moves the rest was way out of my league.  However after a couple months of plastic pulling I seem to be much stronger than before.  Within a hour or so I was through the hard part and moving on to the tricky top out.  From what I've been able to figure out the finish involves a technical mantle.  Hopefully if the weather is still nice I will return to it this weekend in hopes to finish it off.  Thats it for now.

-Mike

why am i up

Like the title says ..... why am I up!! Its 6:40 here in the west and Im unable to sleep at the moment.  So to solve the bored...um  issue Im writing on this thing.  While the weather has been some what favorable I have not been able to make it outside due to massive amounts of school work.  Hopefully wed. and thurs. will be nice enough to climb outside.  If the weather is good it'll be off to weak become heros and possibly cumulus if the snow isn't to deep.  Weak become heros is one of Vedauwoo's classic v10's and cumulus is a new classic v11-12.  Hopefully in a month both of these can be checked off and I'll be able to sleep a little better know these two are done.  Anyway I think it's time to go find some food on account that one Im awake and two I have nothing better to do.

-Mike