The great 40
Feb 1st, 2009 | By putra | Category: News
Fang, Nat and Zee decided to do a marathon 40 routes in one session at Camp5 last thursday. The routine was at castle wall with their 8 metre routes. We started from the far left and climbed all routes for a given rope, before swapping climber, until we had all done all the routes, and then moving on to the next rope and repeating. It took us close to 3 hours to complete 40 routes. We could have continued to do 50 with ease but Camp5 was closing at 1030opm and that was the end of it.
Admittedly we did really easy routes and so did not have much trouble with them. Had we been more stringent in our selection of routes to perhaps 6A and above, it would have been much more difficult to achieve 40 routes in 3 hours. Also the routes we chose were short at 8 metres. Even so…. it was a good workout and good training to pace yourself on the routes and take it easy. At the end of the night I felt muscle fatigue on my arms and back.
We treated ourselves to ice cream !!! which may have negated the positive benefits of the great 40. But who cares….. we WANTED it.
Below: Fang resting after his session.
Muahaha!!! You guys are so funny…Really enjoying yourselves to the fullest during these festive season