Localmotion: Hitting Reset on Frustrations
I was on top of the world after sending Tin Man . After a summer of not climbing due to injury, and two years since my last 5.13 send, I was back . I’d had an eye-opening experience on Tin Man and I was ready to attack more hard climbs, to throw those doubts and limitations away and see what I could do. But progress isn’t always linear. Knowing that I limit myself with doubt and frustration is a good first step to changing things, but you don’t just wake up one day and say, “Okay, from now on I’m not going to limit myself,” and carry on your merry way crushing life goals. It takes practice. It takes being frustrated, recognizing you’re frustrated, and acting to change those thoughts while you’re having them. And the thing is, I wasn’t quite back yet. Somehow, in all the psych, I forgot about that. My finger strength was still lacking and I needed to be careful not to tweak my healing finger. But it was easy to forget I’d only been climbing hard again for a few weeks, because,...