03.30.07

Climbing gym winner

Posted in Climbing at 11:21 am by tesstess

Last time I was climbing, just before leaving for my holidays here in Sweden where I am now, one of the responsible of the gym asked called my name when I came and then picked up this bottle of wine, cheese and sausage you can see on the picture. This was a price, for me! I was surprised and did not understand a thing. They explained to me that last months, when the climbers filled in a paper with all routs they had done, I was the girl who had managed to do the highest number of routs

I was so motivated to climb after this, and a bit sad I had to wait two weeks to climb again. But on Tuesday I will, since I’m coming home on Monday.

I can explain a little how it works in there for you who never saw this kind of strange walls. As warm up, I just climb on what ever holes you feel for taking, usually big ones where not so much technique is required. Then I’m starting to do the routs. The people taking care of the gym have put up routs in different colors, where pink is the easiest and black is the hardest, which means not only hard, but totally impossible. I’m doing all pink, some greens, and sometimes some yellows. The route usually starts quite low with a tape in the color of the route. I put both hands on this whole, and the feet on other wholes which have tapes next to them in the same color, and then starts to climb. I’m only allowed to use wholes where my color is put and the goal, usually somewhere close to the ceiling or even in the ceiling, has two tapes in a V-shape and there I have to hold both my hands for three seconds. It will take between one and five minutes to do one route. As you can see on the back of the climbing gym on the picture, some walls are leaning, which means it’s very physical to climb on them. Goood for the stomach

I go climbing Tuesday and Thursday lunch between 12 and 14. Anthony, Thomas and Matthew are coming from Amadeus too. It’s really great to have this two hour lunch where you can do a sport like this!

It’s a little bit expensive to climb inside, but as Anthony pointed out to me just some days ago, the dancing weekends with courses are almost as expensive as a yearly pass to the gym, so I have to admit that it’s not too expensive after all. I’m just so used to pay for the dancing, and it have meant so much to me that I never reflected over what it costs.

Anna came with me to try the climbing gym when she was visiting me, but it didn’t take many minutes before her muscles were all shaking of tiredness. It’s very heavy to climb when you’re not used to it, and new muscles that most people never use. So very good for computer people! Anna loved it and said she would see if she could start in Stockholm when she came back home.

Now it’s warm enough again to climb outside so for all visitors from Sweden (or anywhere else from) we will take you to the real mountains to try this wonderful sport

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