So dropped the dog at my mums with plans to pick dean up and head out to Awesome walls in Sheffield. Heavy box waiting for dean when I got there, not sure what's in it but brought it anyway.
Arrive at deans, heavy box is ripped apart and out comes Battle Oates.
This is a new product on the market, 100% natural high protein flapjacks with no trans fats. Oh and there oven baked as well.
Ok, so it's off to Awsome Walls in Sheffield with our/deans package of 100% goodness.
Here the heavy streets bit.
From this.
To this
Quick warm up in the boulder room and it's off for a drink and a little chillin time before we do some routes.
Sat having a coffee dean presents me with a Battle Bar, dark choc chip.
Sat chewing away dean is firing the questions, so what do you think, you like them, what does it taste like. Long long long pause, yeh I say. Good actually, very solid not like the general bar you get which just sort of disappears pretty quick still leaving you hungry. Got to the bottom of the wrapper, must admit its a fair bit to get down in such a compact bar. Think I would have been better breaking it up into four sections and eating, then doing, then eating. Anyway will soon find the best way to consume it as time goes on.
Didn't think much more about it after that, why would I. Hit some good routes ranging from 6a up to 6c. 6c being the limit for me, didn't get to the top. Best route of the day was a 6b on holds and features, absolutely amazing route, just loved it.
Not to easy to see, but it's the route below the white hold/feature in the middle of the picture, green route. Best route in the place I thought, super moves which made you concentrate on everyone till you topped out.
So still moving round the centre we hit some more routes with big runs, all had to be done on a min rope length of 50m some on 60 due to the height. All the routes we ran were lead routes which increased the interest.
Next route on the big wall, I took the right side of the hanging wall. Starts at the base of the red dart,pink route at 6a. Got to the first overhang section were the red dart tip meets the black and got pumped out. Pumppy route, better off doing this route after you've warmed up and not at the end of the day, great anyway, one to come back for.
Moved down to the other end of the wall and ran some more routes on slightly overhanging walls, all good pumppy routes due to the height, double the height we are normally used to For a climbing wall.
One of the feature walls, great piece of kit. However we didn't get to climb on this as we concentrated elsewhere.
Dean pushing out a couple of final routes on the auto belayer, just making sure he was super pumped before we went.
I settled for changing my shoes and watching.
SO the big question, did the bar work. The answer, in a round about way.
I never felt hungry during the session
I never felt like I needed to eat
I never seemed to get as tired as I normally do when we do a big session. And we did stay for 4 hrs plus.
I seemed to have plenty of energy, inc burst of energy when I needed it.
Conclusion, they do the job and do it well. I have been given a second bar by Dean to try, so I will be putting this in my Mountain Rescue Kit, and on the next shout I will see how it performs. Going from the Nags head at Edale to Kinder summit should put it through its paces. Get ready for the next report on the BATTLE BAR.
Anyway besides all that we had an Awsome day.
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