Well after the World Championships in Paris, I wanted to get some more training before Adidas Rockstars, but I just go sick again and ended up laying in my bed all day long recovering. Damn being sick sucks ! I really have to find out why I got sick so often this year -.- While my healthiness didn’t really get better, I still could not resist driving to Stuttgart.
Qualifications went really good but it was so exhausting and I barely made it threw. I flashed the first Boulder which had a really cool triple jump finishing with a hard slab. I could also do the next two boulders in each three attempts, but I got really pumped from the pinches and slopers. I couldn’t even open a bottle of water in the transit Zone before the last boulder, but somehow I recovered and could finish the round with a top. I think this round had the most awesome boulders of all the Competitions I did this year. The combination of athletic, dynamic and powerful setting made it perfect. With four tops on four boulders I qualified for Semifinals in 12th Place.
When woke up on day of semis I didn’t think I could even move xD but somehow I got to the comp and it got better during warmup. Once again I could flash the first boulder, that was almost everything I did this round. I fell on the last part of the second Boulder as I got too pumped after the bonus. There was no chance of me sending Boulder No. 3… Even though I knew the beta, I just didn’t have the strength to pull it off. On the last boulder I still tried really hard, but only got a bonus and some bloody fingers
In the end this made me finish 11th Place at one of the best events of the year. I’m really happy with the result and the competition definitely was a lot of fun. Now I will have to rest and recover a bit, before training for the Youth Championship starts…I still gotta learn some speed and lead climbing and there is just 4 weeks left