Nationals Day 1

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to give you a quick update in case you hadn't heard.  9 of the 11 kids flashed their Q1 routes today.  Sam and Cade were the 2 that didn't. 

Common consensus was that the FYB route was 11a so, way to easy for a National championship.  There were only 5 girls of the 36 in that category that didn't flash it.  The rope drag was so bad that it was weighing Sarah down quite a bit and she struggled trying to pull enough rope to clip the last draw on her route.  Most of the girls were struggling near the end to pull the rope.

Nathaniel and Ben both hiked the MYB route.  Nathaniel gave it a 12b rating which seems about right for a Q1 route at Nationals.

I didn't see any of the youth D kid routes but apparently Cade's foot popped off 4 holds from the top or he would have flashed too.  

 MYA was apparently the most difficult route of all the routes today.  Sam feels he didn't warm up enough and got flash pumped around clip 10 of the 14 bolt route.

Tav cruised through his route pretty easily while the 2 kids from the Front didn't finish it.  They had the long roof route today.

All in all, it was a good day.  Today's routes are only weighted at 5% while tomorrow's are 10% so we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Have a good night.

Michelle