Psyche

Psyche is a strange thing, for me it comes and goes with relative ease but normally always lingers somewhere in the background. Often it'll remind me it's there through a quick trawl of climbing videos or a glance at UKBouldering, but sometimes it just seems to disappear completely. The last year and a bit it has evaded me, I've had no psyche, nothing - I've flatlined. In a year and a half I managed to drag myself outside to climb once, to Wales for one weekend, I ticked a few font 7a's and then drove home psyched... to... well... get home again. Granted many a time I've blogged on here, often with some title saying something like 'I'm back', but not once has that blog been written with any psyche behind it.

Until now...

I'm pleased to say the psyche has well and truly returned, I'm back training, back on the campus board and back on the Beastmaker, but most importantly I'm back climbing and loving it. I've been training properly for two weeks now and my base level seems to have got much higher than it once was. A solid year of training in 2009 seems to really improved my finger strength. My first couple of sessions on the Beastmaker saw me crank out full sets of repeaters on the front two and back two on the small pockets and two full sets of encores on the back two on the small pockets. This is a much greater level of finger strength than I ever had before and can only improve as I hit my new regime hard. This last week I've managed one campus session and 4 Beastmaker sesssions, that can only be done with a good dose of psyche...

Bring on the training.