Athletics

The Swedish ladies are ruling the roost in the Athletics World Championships, Helsinki. After Carolina Klüft's gold in the heptathlon, Kajsa Bergqvist and Emma Green secured the gold and bronze in the high jump last night. Especially impressive effort from Kajsa who snapped her achilles tendon clean off only eleven months ago. On Sunday it's Stefan Holm's turn to show if he can repeat the gold performance from the Athens olympics in the men's high jump final. Shame Christian Olsson, the hands down favourite tripple jumper, is injured. Something's happened in Swedish athletics, and it's very impressive.

But what have they ever done at Stanage, eh :)

Got my Crux sack in the post yesterday, and very nice it is, too. I filled it with rack + two half ropes, and it's a vast improvement on my old, tired Lowe sack. It's got that bomb-proof feel to it. Paul and I are hopefully off for a cheeky lunch-time boulder session at a near by crag X. My elbow is sore still, but banking on being able to do some lower intensity stuff. Indooring is out for a while. Tonight Sarah and I are heading to the Crag of Dreams and hopefully Sarah will lead something. She did well in Pembroke the other weekend, but Wintour's doesn't work for her for some reason.

[update] Just back from two hours at Winterbourne Down - lovely little sandstone bluff by a creek. Nothing to write home about in the grand scheme of things, but a nice little place for a lunch time boulder session in the sun. Did two recorded routes at E3 and E1, but more like V0 highball over a pad. No one's shouting at me yet for being extraordinary late back from lunch :)