This week I did something I wouldn’t normally do: I rock climbed!
On Sunday, my friends and I went to Evo Rock and Fitness Climbing Gym, located in Concord. Although it wasn’t my first time rock climbing, it was my first time climbing at a climbing gym and I hadn’t rocked climbed in over a year as it was.
When we got there we had to take a belaying test to make sure we were qualified for belaying each other. One person would belay and another would climb. Luckily I remembered how to belay, but when I had to climb, fears started to creep in. I have lost muscle since coming to college and combined with a slight fear of heights, and probably also combined with the fact that my friend was belaying someone for the first time, I began to get shaky looking up at that wall.
With a couple deep breathes, I calmed myself down enough to grab on to the wall. Move by move, I made my way up half the wall and did something someone will a fear of heights should never do: look down. The ground looked a hundred yards away, although in reality was probably 20 feet.
Nothing happened after that though. My fear seemed to vanish as I realized there wasn’t anything really to be scared of. I was able to make it up that wall along with other routes.
This was a great workout and something out of the ordinary for my friends and I to do and we had a blast doing it, that the next day me and some more friends decided to go again.
I was able to climb a 5.9 route while my boyfriend, Chris, was able to climb a course, named Hooplah, that was a 5.10.a. We’re both pretty proud of ourselves for being able to climb those rankings on our second time going.
I’m happy to have been taking advantage of what surrounds us at Plymouth and have been able to do things I don’t normally get to do. I can’t wait to go home for Spring Break and tell my family about it all.
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