As it says on the tin!

Maybe 1 entire year is too long, get in any short term ones you've got as well.

herewego: Blue = Climbey Red = Fitness Green = Other/ Off topic

Boulder 8a
Trad E5/6 (Start Trad - with ropes and everything)
Grab a Nails first ascent (Boulder)
Sport 7c
7c On Grit


Bench 100kg
Overhead Press 50k (strict)
5x +50kg Weighted Pullups
100 Press Ups
Regain proper use of my left little finger.


Visit another continent, shag there.
Go back to Font
shag in a country in Europe I've never climbed in
Never work nights again, even if it is to pay for going to South Africa
Improve endurance (here because not countable, related to weight etc)
Try a martial art
Re-learn standing back somersault

Yeesh, enough to be going on with.

Go to Norway for some Ice Climbing

Go to the Alps for some Snow Climbing

Go to either Patgonia/Austraila/Hong Kong [completely different countries I know, but one of the three will do]

See a physiotherapist - (fix my knee, shoulder, elbow and back)
Be able to run a full 8-10 miles again without my knee giving me trouble.
Get down to 10st 7lb again.

-Hit 7a lead indoors
-Solidify E1 and cleanly lead one scary E2

Make a fully functioning Daft Punk Helmet

Oh yeah, try and get a 2.1 in my degree, get a job abroad and sod off out of the UK asap! lol

NEW: Work out how to make 100k in a year! [anybody wants to join me in this task, they are welcome to]

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"I'm not mad, I just see things differently"
No longer VP : But still Vaguely Philippino
FYI: Actions speak louder than wombats

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*Sees that Crunchy Nut is £3.70 in the supermarket*
"Definitely can't afford that".
*Buys a pint for £4 later on that evening*

Vizzle-Pizzle

Before the end of the year:

Go on an awesome trip (Third year running!) hopefully abroad (Font or Kalymnos in Easter maybs)
Go to Scotland next year!

Man up on trad and stop being a pansy!
Second some more hard trad grades and maybe try and enjoy grit (doubtful)
Lead 6a comfortably indoors
Lead 6a clean onsight outdoors
Second/TR 6b outdoors and indoors

Bouldering....NAAAAAAAAAAAA

Improve fitness and find time to use my gym membership which I found out I still have for two months

Improve stamina on long routes (and STOP RESTING)

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Resident climbing ninja

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ex-social sec to have retired

For the year:

Boulder 7b+/V8+ anywhere (most likely the cave)
Boulder 7b/V8 on peak grit (suggestions anyone; ie. quick, tell me how I can shag grit without grit technique?)
shag a 7a/V6 grit slab or non-overhung arete (or both ideally)


Specific climbs to hopefully get done;
The Staffordshire Flyer (roaches)- V4
The Pinches (ramshaw)- V4
The Nose Low Start (churnet)- V5
Beaver Righthand Low (parisella's)- V5
Lefthand Back Traverse (cromlech boulders)- V5
Stallone Arete (newstones)- V5/6
The Edge Problem Low (cromlech boulders)- V5/6
Ape Drape (froggatt)- V5/6
High Speed Imp Act (churnet)- V6
Black Hole Start (roaches)- V6
Cave Righthand (robin hood's stride)- V6
Mark's Roof Original (gardoms)- V6
Gorilla Warfare (curbar)- V6
MILF-Hunter's Wall (curbar)- V6
Right Wall Traverse- Beaver Righthand (parisella's)- V6
Tierdrop (ramshaw)- V6/7
Clever Cleaver (parisella's)- V7
Clever Beaver (parisella's)- V7
CBLS- Beaver Righthand (parisella's)- V7/8
Mental Extension (pantymwyn)- V8
Clever Beaver-Clever Cleaver (parisella's)- V8/+




Hang a non sticky-damp set of Beastmaker 2000 45 degree slopers for 8 seconds
Hang the Beastmaker 1000 crimps (in good form to avoid injury) one handed for 4 seconds
One arm lock-off on as small a hold as possible
LESS SUGAR



Make a board as sexy as Byron's and use it regularly
Add to my collection of font 8a climber's boxers


If you read through all that I apologise for two minutes of your life you will never get back...

Going to spend quite a bit more time sport climbing this year. Also, as this is probably the last chance I'll really get to push my climbing, I'm going to go all out for the next 8months and hopefully send some hard shit! It's a really good feeling when you get that last hold knowing that you've used up everything your body has! Therefore I'm going to be training a little bit like a machine, (probably still not as much as Byron though!! ) Hopefully the weather will be good this year. If I get injured I plan to join a band instead. I guess it's good to aim high. At the same time it'll probably be pretty embarrassing when I don't achieve any of my goals.


Boulder v11
shag 8 x F8a and above
Flash a F7c - Done! and in feb! 10 months to push this further.
Need to stop falling off F6c+'s
shag a font7a slab - I've done one!! Wahey. 1/200 f7's is a slab. I'm truly an all round climber.....

Current Hit list: (lots will be added throughout the year, like my list from last year)

Sport: Brean Topping, F8b; Elite Syncopations, F8a; Hot Fun Closing, F8a; Caviar, F8a+; The Spider, F8a; Milky Bar Kid, F8a+; Cider Soak, F8a; Mussel Beach, F8a; Statement of Youth, F8a; Liron Careto, F7c; Cosas Caseras, F7a+; Bichaca, F7c; Broken Dreams, F7b+; Sunnyside Up Mix, F7b; Dyperspace, F7c; Bullworker, F7c; The Rivals, F7c+.

Flash / RP

Boulders: Wheelbarrow, v10; Tsunamish, v10; Cave Life Short, v9; Left Wall High, v9; Rock Atrocity, v9; The Storm, v8; Zippy's Traverse, v8; Bus Stop, v9; Not Bad Dave Assis, v9; Tierdrop, v7; Simple Simon(Finally!), v8; Le Toit Du Cul du Chien, v6; The Press, v8; Trigger Cut, v10/11; Barrel Traverse, v8+; Fat Cat into Taylor Made Eliminate, v10/11.

Sent/Flash

Trad: Bloody Sunday, E4; Kitten Claws, E3; The Crank, VS; The Vice, E1; Strapadictomy, E5; Zeppelin, E3; Regent Steet, E2; Thumbelina, E6; Tears of a Clown, E6.

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massive punter

ok well lets think....
Do some 7c's and 7C's and maybe a few 7c+'s and 7C+'s and get working a few 8A's.
Go to either kalymnos or rodellar or both.
Come first in an inter university comp ie LUBE.
Get running again
do well in my third year of my degree
go drinking more

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pain is just weakness leaving the body

This year?
I'm well up for a trip like some of the UBMC guys had last summer
In terms of specific goals I would be happy with;

top 20 in LUBE
a couple of one-armers mayyyybe
a few 7a+s (bouldering and sport leading at redpoint)
get started on the E numbers outdoors


be able to hang off everything on my fingerboard
Get into swimming again
do a shit load of skydives
retain the ability to back somersault


Go to font
deep water solo in WARM seawater
make a plan for my postgrad life

...or suttin like dat :]

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go hard or go home

1. solve a cryptic crossword
2. don't kill anyone when i turn into a doctor later this year.

Blue = Climbey Red = Fitness Green = Other/ Off topic

Haul my self up 6cs.
leading 6b/+s
dabble into the world of the E1s
do as much winter as is possible without hindering my degree
go to the Alps and get on some massive routes.



Start cycling again and not driving everywhere



Finish this degree so i can ....
Buy and restore a classic car and/or buy a van

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Level-headed member of Gadd-vey

nice phil, that classic car idea is awesome

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go hard or go home

I know that these aims are quite high, and I've already failed at one of them but I'll be happy with a lower number of occurrences than last year.

Not get kicked out of Gunnies
Not lose any form of optical aid, shoe, climbing gear or anything else
Not get caught drinking Sammy B in the toilets of the proverbial
Not fall through a frozen lake

no chance on the first three, you may manage the last one (weather permitting)

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Trousers