Chillaz Winter Collection 2010/11

Kitzrock 2010

The competition in Kitzbühl has been held for the 3rd time this year and it counts to the Austrian and German Cup. It always a good event, well organized and a good preparation for the upcoming Woldcups. This was reflected by the unbelievable big number of competitors, with 60 men and 30 women. I had a good time and enjoyed the competition and finished on 2nd place behind Anna Stöhr and Katha Sauerwein came 3rd. Also the rest of the Ötztal Team did well with Lu winning the competition by the men before Kili Fischhuber and Jonas Bauman. Stew came 4th, Kathi 18th and Eli 27th.

Easter holiday on the côte d´azur

After a hard and long period of training I felt like an easier week with sun, sea and tufas. Therefore Stew and I decided really spontaneous to make a 6 day trip to Castillon to do some easier climbing and improve our power endurance. I was impressed from the climbs and some of the lines had the most interesting tufas I recently held.

CWIF 2010 and Team Training

On Friday the 19th of March the Austrian Team went to England to take part in an International Climbing Master in Sheffield and to climb and train on the Gritstone and to check-out some bouldering walls.

The competition on Saturday was probably one of the coolest comp I took part in. I don't think I ever climbed that much before on a single day. With 30 qualification problems, a semi-final and a final all on one day, it was a real climbing battle. Additionally, I was really pleased with my performance, and made it into the final (through a drop out). In the end I finished on the 5th place.

After a well needed rest day the training-week started. The weather was a bit rainy (typical!?!), so we just made it 3 times outside and the rest of the time we ended up training indoor. Unfortunately the week felt way to short...

Chironico

After a long periode of training, Stew and I felt the drive to escape from the plastic and went to Chironico. It was amazing to hold on to the rock again, however as soon as the sun was gone it went pretty cold (too cold for our cooker..died and left us with cold pasta). I was really happy with my ascent of "les doigts verts 7c+" and here are a few pics...

Training phase 2: GETTING STRONG

My 2nd training phase, involving a lot of metal, sweat and heavy loads is nearly over and I am well looking forward to start bouldering and going outside again.

2 times Chrismas

This year I spent my first time Chrismas and New Year away from the mountains on an island. Fortunatley it had a lot off snow (very unusual), which made it much more Chrismas like for me. It was cool to experence a total different chrismas senario to the one I know, with differnt hapits and foods. The good thing is that in England they celabrate Chrismas on the 25th so i had 2 Chrismas days :-).

I enjoyed me time in England even when there was too much snow to go on the grite, we visited lots of differnet walls and met many friends. Now we are back home and are reseting our trainings wall with the Oetztal team to get ready for serious training...