Lucy Creamer warming up. Copyright:Tim Glasby

 
At the beginning of April, Lucy headed to Belgium to go indoor climbing. Seems a long way to go for plastic though there was a reason to her madness - the first round of the World Cup.

Despite spending a couple of days at the wall to familiarise herself with the facility, Lucy was finding the climbing very hard. She had been climbing well in the months prior to the trip but could not fathom why it was not translating to a solid performance across the channel.

A little deflated, Tim and Lucy headed out to the Ardeche and then Seynes. Onsight rock (sport or trad) is her favourite form of climbing so it was bound to cheer her up.

After climbing at a couple of venues in the Ardeche, Lucy had the wind knocked out of her sails again; in her words, she was climbing rubbish!

“I really couldn’t understand it and was getting very frustrated. I also had the added pressure of needing to make a quick decision on whether it was worth competing in Belgium, or waiting and getting fitter before Dresden 3 weeks later.”

It didn’t take her too long to decide not to go back to compete in Belgium but Lucy was understandably gutted about this. Her training over the winter had been geared up for the comps but we that she would have been more gutted if she’d got a bad result.