It's been an absoloutely hectic couple of months over here for me:
- Work just keeps getting busier and busier with little reprieve;
- I've signed up for a half-marathon which is eating up a lot of my spare time;
- I've taken on a project of camperizing my new AstroVan;
- I've started working on a new steem project -- dubbed with the Codename @RunBurgundy;
- Various charity and social events have caused me to be busy / hungover on a frequent basis;
- My climbing partner
has moved away from town, and is now officially dead to me;
- I let my membership to the gym lapse;
All of the above has led me to letting my climbing practice slide for a little while -- BUT NO MORE!
Similar to striking while the iron is hot -- I have always found that I need to ride waves of motivation and energy while they are... cresting... that sounds like a surfing reference -- which doesn't work well for climbing. Maybe something along the lines of "ride the pump" would be better, but that sounds SUPER sexual.
REGARDLESS, I'm making a promise to myself in a few respects here:
Get back into climbing on the regular:
- I've got 9-visits left on my punch pass for the gym -- I'm gonna eat that up with 3x bouldering sessions over the next 3 weeks:
Set up a home gym again:
- I've got rock rings and a hangboard at home that have just been laying around. Gonna hang those up, or spruce them up in a way such that I can hang them when / where they're needed:
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I'm feeling antsy, frustrated, and eager. I need to squeeze and try hard. I've got a couple people that I work with that are excited to do a bit of climbing, so hopefully I can rope someone into a steady belaytionship (ba dum tsssss).
This should coincide pretty nicely with my new Steem project as well, as I'd like it to be a new place for climbings to meet and share info / sends, while also hopefully contributing to access / bolt / maintenance funding for their local crags.
But at the very least, I'm starting to miss the various crags and mountainscapes that fired me up enough to decide to build my own 'home away from home'. So here's to remembering ones passion, and getting back on the paths to success. Gotta get back into a regular fitness routine, and get ready for THE CRUSHENING to resume!
So what kind of stuff have YOU been putting on the backburner in your life? Do you think you have the time to get back into it now? Or do you just hope that if you wait long enough, it'll come back.
Join me on the wave... or the pump... whatever works for you.