[climbing] goals
Apr. 10th, 2018 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hermionesviolinFor a while I've said that I climb 5.7/5/8s. [There are different scales for rating climbing routes, but the gyms I climb at use a scale where the easiest is 5.5 and once you get to 5.10 they start getting sub-ratings of a/b/c -- and maybe d? -- and go up maybe as far as 5.12.]
But recently I've been climbing 5.9s more regularly/easily (climbing every week really helps), and in reflecting on that after climbing last week, I set a goal for myself to be consistently climbing 5.9s by the end of the year.
I mentioned this to Molly tonight (er, climbing friend Molly, not to be confused with former lead pastor Molly) and she said I'm already consistently climbing 5.9s. I said but of the 6 walls I climbed tonight, only half were 9s, the other half were 8s. She pointed out that being able to climb something consistently doesn't mean you don't also climb easier things, and it sounded like what I meant by consistently climbing 9s was climbing 10s sometimes. Which, I had been thinking about the goal as having 9s be my new baseline (like how I've levelled up from comfortably climbing 7s and being able to do some 9s to comfortably climbing 8s and doing some 9s) but I hadn't thought about how the other piece of that is climbing 10s sometimes. I think I have successfully climbed a 10 once in my life (and I was like, "Was that really accurately labeled? Because I am not good enough to have been able to climb a 10 that easily."), and psychologically it feels like a more significant level up -- but that's probably just because it's still a step above the highest thing I can comfortably climb ... so the skills/strengths involved feel so beyond my capabilities ... but obviously as I consistently climb 9s more, I'll develop more of those strengths/skills.
(Oh, this reminds me that I should re-follow![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
disobey_gravity, huh?)
But recently I've been climbing 5.9s more regularly/easily (climbing every week really helps), and in reflecting on that after climbing last week, I set a goal for myself to be consistently climbing 5.9s by the end of the year.
I mentioned this to Molly tonight (er, climbing friend Molly, not to be confused with former lead pastor Molly) and she said I'm already consistently climbing 5.9s. I said but of the 6 walls I climbed tonight, only half were 9s, the other half were 8s. She pointed out that being able to climb something consistently doesn't mean you don't also climb easier things, and it sounded like what I meant by consistently climbing 9s was climbing 10s sometimes. Which, I had been thinking about the goal as having 9s be my new baseline (like how I've levelled up from comfortably climbing 7s and being able to do some 9s to comfortably climbing 8s and doing some 9s) but I hadn't thought about how the other piece of that is climbing 10s sometimes. I think I have successfully climbed a 10 once in my life (and I was like, "Was that really accurately labeled? Because I am not good enough to have been able to climb a 10 that easily."), and psychologically it feels like a more significant level up -- but that's probably just because it's still a step above the highest thing I can comfortably climb ... so the skills/strengths involved feel so beyond my capabilities ... but obviously as I consistently climb 9s more, I'll develop more of those strengths/skills.
(Oh, this reminds me that I should re-follow
disobey_gravity, huh?)
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Date: 2018-04-11 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-11 03:48 pm (UTC)(I need to get myself a good climbing/physical badass icon.)
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Date: 2018-04-11 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-12 12:05 am (UTC)I wonder if the other thing is that 10s start getting subratings? So subconsciously they are where Extra Hard starts?
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Date: 2018-04-12 01:44 pm (UTC)