This was our second team training in preparation for the 2008 season. In October we went to Alsager for a round of fitness testing including the dreaded 'bleep test'. This time it was more of a training camp. Thursday and Friday we were at The Climbing Works in Sheffield for circuit training, on-sight bouldering, campus training and learning how to blog. The circuit training was tough- pull-ups, press-ups, footless, lock-offs, body tension exercises, speed climbing, leg raises and dynos all on the agenda. After one round I was shattered and nearly fell asleep on the bouldering mat. Too soon it was time for round 2 and we all warmed into it and performed well. Round 3 properly finished us off. Gaz then chose 20 blocs for us to climb in pairs and even the easy ones felt quite hard at that stage!
The next morning Chris 'Springer' Graham showed us the wonders of the world wide web (hence this blog). 
The Geordie invasion continued with Andy Earl running us through a campus session. For the girls I think it was a real revelation about how much work we need to do in the pre-season to get up to scratch for next year.
After two days work it was off to Guildford for the Craggy Island Boulder Bash on Saturday.
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