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Red point climbing centre

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

As well as running I have also been climbing at Red Point in Birmingham with my friend Becky who is staying with Gayle and me. Becky has been climbing for a while and has her own kit. We headed to Red Point and met up with a number of her friends who have been climbing for some years and quite literally showed me the ropes. I learnt how to tie a figure of eight knot and the crucial elements of how to belay as well as taking my first footholds and finger grabs in climbing. It was really great fun and I was able to climb a grade 4 wall after a couple of attempts on a grade 3. The tiredness you feel from just a few climbs is really punishing. I used muscles I didn’t know I had and could tell it would take more than a few sessions to build some handgrip strength.

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