In a run of crushing form, the woman has been putting me to shame recently. Firstly, she won the summer bouldering ladder at the climbing wall. She worked really hard for it and despite playing it down, it was a brilliant effort and I am really happy for her. In the same week, we went to Brimham and she flashed Whiskey Galore. It's her first 7a flash, which is very cool. It's also a really tricky problem to do without beta, and she did it straight away again for the camcorder. BOOM. And if that wasn't enough, today we went to Caley for her to do, not try, The Pinch. It took a while to figure out the best shorty sequence, but once it was sussed she was running laps on it. She's wanted to do it for years so it's another brilliant tick.

I'm trying to train a lot at the moment, but managed to nadge a middle finger pulley at the wall. I've been hammering the cold water treatment and it is helping heaps, hopefully it will be somewhere near healed before Bleau.

Shape of The Day: Bex on The Pinch