Today was my first day of competition. We are climbing on a 15 metre high wall which is in a park in the Financial District of Shanghai called Pudong. It's surrounded by massive skyscrapers some so high they spent a lot of the weekend in the clouds! The climb this morning was very hard, much harder than competitions in Australia, I didn't climb very well and I was disappointed to be in 14th place at the end.
The second climb was scheduled for the eventing but it started to rain so they have postponed it until tomorrow. They held the World Record Format Speed Climbing instead. In this format the climb is exactly the same wherever you go in the world. The world record was broken just last week by a Chinese climber who climbed the 15 metres in 7.3 seconds! Carlie climbed in the Speed. We don't have a wall like this in Australia yet so she had never tried it before. All of the other climbers train on this climb all the time.
One of the world's greatest climbers, Patxi Usbiago from Spain, cruised through the climb.As I'm typing this the TV in the hotel is on the sports channel and the speed competition is on! Carlie's on Chinese TV!
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