The Tour has now had two comps one at
Penrith Climbing Centre and
The Rockhouse Brookvale. Both comps were high on the fun factor and the competition was fierce but friendly.
Penrith- Lindsay Fletcher in Youth C age 12 was the star, smashing everyone over the two days with 52 climbs and 27,051 points all done in the two and half hours time limit.
Andy Richardson won the open A male with has 10 best climbs 9390 points, Sarah Mathews took out the open A female with 8,955.
Overall Penrith had 107 competitors and lots of PUMPED arms.
For results on the
Penrith Tour de Corde click here.
Rockhouse comp had a standout crowd too with 105 competitors over the two days, Opens was huge on the Friday night. The leaders from the Penrith Comp had to wear, in the traditional style of the Tour, a yellow tag on their harnesses to show they were the leaders.
Stand out performances were Dave Hoyle from Hangdog with 44 climbs and 28,210 points being the overall pumper with the most points. But the climber with the most climbs was Adam Gearing, a Youth C male from the Rockhouse who did 48 climbs and scored 26,260 points!
Robert LeBreton from the FIS, Mitch Breheny from the Centre of Gravity in Port Macquarie, and Pitch Ninja, Axel Triton shared the prize in the Open A male with 9,410 points. The Rockhouse's own Ben Aves, in Youth A Male, achieved the same score the following day. Open A Female was won by another Rockhouse local Nikki Selles with 9,025 points.
Rockhouse ResultsThe next Tour de Corde is at
Hangdog Climbing Gym on the 1st and 2nd of May, hope everyone feels the pump!
I am here with two of the team members, Mel and Zoe. The other will be here over the next couple of days. The comp starts next thursday, this is the Aus blog for all the updates
Rob was up first on the Saturday he climbed well, but not as good as has he can, bit nervous? He was going to climb again in the evening but it just bucketed down and they put the speed on instead, so I was up. I had a few goes on the world record speed climb after Rob's climb and felt ok. When it was my turn I must of been a little tense, my foot slipped off the first hold and I was out of there. But we had two goes. The next time I was worried about slipping and did not get a good time. I did not feel like it was me climbing at all! 
Penrith- Lindsay Fletcher in Youth C age 12 was the star, smashing everyone over the two days with 52 climbs and 27,051 points all done in the two and half hours time limit.
Rob and I went to Araps for 10 days in January. It was really cool, and did lots of climbing. The weather was really hot, so we had to hide in the gullies. The heat zaps your energy and you don't feel like climbing. So we had to stay motivated. 
