I feel somewhat tired these days. Children, work, training, bouldering, all gets a bit too much. This weekend saw me alone with the kids, but still I was planning to get two days of bouldering in anyway. Last weekend I also had two days out bouldering, and I also took both kids with me. However, I still haven’t got the right mindset for those days. Basically, I should have no expectations and be happy when I get even an hour of bouldering. However, what I did was that I was psyched and had boulders in mind which I wanted to climb. When things went wrong (i.e. I felt off for whatever reason) I quickly get in a bad mood. Things like “Oh dad, I need to shit” when you sit on the start of the problem, already chalked up and ready to go got my mood even worse. So on order to avoid this situations I really need to get the “you are bouldering with your kids” mindset back. I think I’ve learned that finally this weekend so hopefully this will improve.
Moreover, today was especially dissapointing. We drove to two different areas, both were soaking and I ended up on my mate’s woodie on a sunny Sunday afternoon. I also felt quite tired from yesterdays session, when we went to an area called “Odenwald”. There are some little granite boulders and we destroyed our skin on it. At least I got a couple of 7b’s done.
Last weekend, I was trying my project again and it went really bad. I should mention that a week before that I basically had the boulder sacked, but managed to fall off on the last couple of moves because of a lack of concentration (a foot slipped on a really really big foothold). After a few disappointing goes on that we quickly went to another area and I managed to get a 7c trav. classic called “Mandala” done quicly. The next day we’ve been to the “Kirschfels”-area, which offers a great view and some nice roofy boulders. I could do the 7c line in my first go after warming up on the moves and afterwards worked the moves of the 7c+, for which I definetly come back in the next weeks. Thanks to Felix for some good shots.
