Saturday climb with le David

I felt pretty bad last week. I've signed up at the climbing gym for 3 months and was planning to go like, 2x a week so I can get a lot of out of, but it's gone from 2x to 1x a week and last week I almost didn't go. That's bad. I still want to climb, that isn't the issue, but I can see that if I get lazy and not go on my usual schedule I'll just end up not going because.. well.. I dunno why, my brain is weird. I swear sometimes I'd rather not do something I enjoy just so I don't have to make the effort to get there.

So yeah, I hadn't gone for 5 days or something and wasn't planning to on the Saturday until David rang up and asked if I wanted to go with him. I said sure! It's a lot easier to say yes when you know you're going to go with someone instead of by yourself. And what did I learn?

Not a lot.

Sorry.

However, I did complete a route I've been trying to do for weeks - That's progress for you. All you need is pateince and time, and suddenly something that seems hard at first isn't actually all that hard after all. Although I'm still stuck on that motherfucking yellow. Oh, which reminds me, I got another compliment *although it wasn't meant for me to hear* from some guy who is a lot better at climbing than me. I was tryign to do the yellow, and I asked him if he could. Eventually he did complete it, but not before trying several times and while watching me, turning to his buddy and saying "I'm beeing shown up by a new starter" because I'm getting so close to completing it, and was closer than him to doing it at the start.

So yeah anyway, ego boosts come thick and fast from fellow climbers it seems.

Trust your feet, dudes.