In reply to keith sanders:
A good year for me would involve
- climbing a lot of good routes, i.e. big, adventurous trad routes
- climbing routes at my top grade, or breaking a new trad grade (becoming increasingly harder of course as time goes on);
- improving at something, even if that was sport or bouldering (the eventual aim of which would be to climb harder trad routes)
- climbing in new areas that are brilliant
None of that has happened this year - but it has been a 'year off' serious climbing as I've had other things take priority for a bit. Next year I plan to train my way back to full fitness (I've kept strength up by bouldering a bit) and venture out of the UK, as well as see some 'new' bits of Scotland. Will hopefully be a good year - but this all depends unfortunately on work going right.