Post Comp
I have no idea what day it is, but its the day after the comp. I really liked it. It felt really good to be an athlete, to feel like an athlete. I had a lot of performance, anxiety and fear when I first showed up. All the problems seemed surprisingly, not too crazy, but I kind of knew that they were sneakily hard. When we got to the first problem, I said, I had also told myself to treat it like a fun exhibition of my skills, the body, hanging out with all my friends.
The first problem was an obvious crack. I was the last one to go out of a group of three friends, both other climbers flashed it their first attempt. I felt the pressure to flash, and the crack definitely intimidated me. So when I went up there, everything was going good until I got to the crack and I started panicking. I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to get past it. I couldn’t do what they did. They skipped the crack basically by just using their strength. And I quickly found out couldn’t physically do that. I made the realization that I had to use technique and I went ahead to try for the crack move. It was intense. I cut my feet and I almost fell! But I wanted to flash it just like everybody else. And so even though I cut my feet, I had both of my fists in the crack, and I made it!!!
It felt… awesome. That set the tone for the rest of the competition. I didn’t care about the performance. I just was happy that I gave my best effort and made it! It definitely broke the ice for the rest of the comp.
If felt even cooler because at the time,I was currently nursing an injury. Not a serious one, but my fingertips we’re kind of sore from trying full crimps too much. And so I was nervous for the next routes.
The green was pretty crimpy and pretty hard. I think I did my best and I was happy with my performance, but I did not try that one multiple times for safety. In fact, I didn’t try any more than once. I think I had trained too much the week before. But I was okay with the results. You never want to be out of practice. You want to warm up properly, but you don’t want to over exert yourself. And I think I over exert myself a little bit and I ate, I didn’t eat enough prior.
So I think next time I’ll bring a protein bar. I’ll eat a little bit more prior, but I still don’t want to eat too much to where I’m heavy. But yeah, it was a great, had so much fun. The two lead problems were tons of fun.
So yeah, it went really well. It took lots of fun pictures. I can’t wait to post on Instagram about it and I’m super excited to come back to more, more comps.
This is like the beginning. This is the end of the first chapter for me of climbing or maybe the second chapter. It’s a great transition. I can compete on an intermediate level, which feels awesome. It was, it was just a really fun, great experience. Can’t wait for more.
As this spring rolls in, other sports come and take my attention. And that’s totally fine. I love it. I can’t wait to backpack, camp and kayak. And eventually once the summer comes around surf.
This was me the nest morning, I walked home from a friends house with a Gri Gri in my left pocket and a tacobell taco in my right. I put it on my windowsill and had it for breakfast the next day! 😅