For those of you that are new here, welcome! To those who are not, welcome back. I've been blogging since March 2012 and writing about my climbing, training and various experiences along the way.
My previous blog was a great starting point but I felt that it's title, and the pressure associated with it, was having a less than positive mental impact. I'd lost the enthusiasm that I had to start with because climbing, and training, had become a chore: I'd stopped having fun.
This is why we all start climbing and it can sometimes be difficult to still have the fun aspect when we want to improve. We set ourselves goals, not realising that these become the marker for success. If we don't achieve these, then the outcome is only seen as negative - a failure. How many times have you said 'I want to climb ...(insert grade/route/goal)' and when we don't we write that experience off as a complete failure. Associating a specific outcome with success.
I've written about this link between goals and success previously. I'd tackled it and had a handle on it. But left unchecked, it became the driving force behind my climbing again. Nobody wants to climb because they feel like they 'have to' - I want to climb because I enjoy it!
So with this in mind, my new blog is just about me, my climbing and what I enjoy. I hope it will entertain, help people in similar situations and will offer an insight in to what climbing is and why I, and we as climbers, do it!
Check back soon for my first post - it's a classic!
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