Stay With It
I’ve spent all winter training to come out strong for Titan, this year. I got close last year but I just couldn’t pull it off. I’m gunning for it this season – I’ve just had a hangboard PB and I’m psyched. I take a rest day then project a short and brutal 13d, pulling on crimps over and over again. All the moves have gone except one; this will be my training route until Lion’s Head season starts. I wake up the next day feeling like I didn't do enough so I go to the gym and at the end of my session my finger twangs and then blows up. FML. It’s April 2019. I start doing yoga. For the first couple of months I feel restless and impatient as I try to follow 10 minute YouTube videos. I know I’m getting older and I know this’ll be good for me and by extension, my climbing. My husband laughs and makes fun of the names of poses while he plays video games, headphones cocked to one side of his head, never taking his eyes off the screen. There’s no place for me to practice other than ...