I'm enjoying my last rest day today. It's a beautiful sunny day and it seems like just over night all the leaves have turned yellow. Tomorrow's my last climbing day. I catch a train for barcelona afterwards where I'll meet up with colleen for 10 days. I can't wait to see you baby!
The last week or so has been interesting. Firstly, my iPhone crashed and I had to do a full restore which meant I lost all my music, photos, and applications. I was really enjoying all that music you gave me Dean. Thanks again by the way. Then there was the climbing. No accomplishments to speak of. Well, that is to say that I haven't redpointed any routes lately. I've been making some progress with my redpoint climbing issues. This trip has done a lot to help me identify and really understand most if not all of them. Climbing is such a mental game. Especially when your pushing your limit. It's a fine line between success and failure. The attitude you take up a climb with you can be the difference between sending and falling. One of my biggest problems when trying to redpoint routes happens at that crucial moment when you hit your limits and you need to dig really deep and give it everything you have plus a little bit more. Instead of doing that, I give up. I don't feel like I tried as hard as I could have. Part of the reason why I can't seem to really pour it on when I need to has to do with what I'm thinking to myself as I'm tying up my climbing shoes and getting ready to climb. Instead of focusing on how bad I want it, I hope and pray that I don't fall. I concentrate on not failing so inevitably that's what happens. If I was concentrating on success, on how badly I wanted it, I'd be able to dig deep when that moment arrives. I guess it boils down to desire. Your success depends on how bad you want it. I have to switch my thoughts to the posative side rather than the negative. Anyway, I'm going to revisit a project tomorrow that I walked away from and give it one my try. Let's see if the power of posative thinking helps.
No problem about the music, glad you had a chance to listen at all.
One more thing; Colleen can't make it so I will be meeting you in Barcelona for 10 days instead, can't wait to see you baby!
Posted by: dbergen | October 21, 2008 at 04:22 PM