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Rod's Euro 2009 - Trip Report ~ with updates! 11-Aug-2009 At 2:24:13 AM rod

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hope everyone's going well and sending in the cold weather!

well, the 7b isn't going to go. had a good run on it last friday and nailed the sloper move but then i can't do enough with it to make the next one. maybe its 7b+ afterall :)

saturday i got through the crux of a route that's defied me for years, felt really strong and calm but 2 clips further in it started raining really hard so i traversed right to finish via a dry crack into the route next to it...still no redpoint. we were shutdown for the day.

sunday wine induced hangover, mountaineering day near zinalrothorn.

today gave saturday's site another lash with cyrille; my first really bad day since may. it was pathetic, i trembled my way up the route from saturday to finally bag the redpoint but i felt real weak throughout. was nicely polished on a harder graded crack route well right of it straight after so just put it down to no warm up. having dispensed with the warm-ups decided to step it up for the rest of the day. what followed was an embarrassment on a 6c+, i was static, non-combative and climbed poorly, it took 2 nasty falls before i decided on sending cyrille up to flash it and then getting rained off for the day.

i felt drained from the get go today and may finally have hit the exhaustion wall mike was on about. hopefully tomorrow proves better, i'm off equipping and playing test pilot on some limestone with laurent monnet.

good result in the cricket, hopeful of a 2-1 series result.