Ok, what I want to write about today is, that also climbing has its "dark" sides.
As this is MY blog I will not write to generally, but focus on the problem I have to deal with nowadays:
I'm always complaining a bit about my soft and sweaty skin. I have to chalk a lot, I meen really a lot.
But as it's my body, and I have no other, I have to deal with it...and to be honest: I'm quite used to it now, although I'm still complaining about it and it's in my mind evertime I am climbing when there are not so good conditions.
You can see that this topic bothers me a lot, and no it's not just imagination. I have compared quite often how some holds in the climbing gym look like after I used them, in comparison to someone else and there is a (big) difference!!!! After I used some holds, they are used to get this awful sweaty brownish look. -.-
Buuuut, and that's why I'm writing a post about this here, it's not just this....it got worse...
You know I have been to this bouldering spot named "Can Boquet" near Barcelona, when I was on my journey down to Mallorca. I was there....at the 30th august, so quite a long time ago.
I think I also wrote that it was very hot back then, like 32° or something...not the best bouldering conditions.
But I don't want to complain about the conditions at this day, I want to complain that I have completely rotten my skin at this spot, two months ago.
And you might know, that if the first layer(s) of skin is missing, it sweats a lot.
But as I normally have no skin problems except the ones I was writing about some lines above, I did not decide to make a bigger break or something and after just one rest day I was climbing again, to get to know some locals to climb with for the next months.
My skin got worse and worse and someday I knew that I have to pause in order to recover my skin completely. You know: as I wrote before I always have a sweaty skin and therfore everything is a bit slippery, but now movements that normally would get just a little bit harder, were simply impossible for me! My hands weren't a bit sweaty anymore, they were fucking wet. :(
But still I was climbing a litlle bit more because I refused to believe that this will be the only way out of my troubles.
Also some two 3-day-breaks couldn't recover my rotten skin and I got really desperate. Maybe you might think that I'm just a little baby (p..sy) crying about his baby skin problems, but when I say desperate I really mean DESPERATE! Like, when you are in a bad situation and you don't know how to get out, without getting harmed, anymore. It's no good feeling when you aren't able to go to personal limits anymore, but just slip of all the time...
So finally I stopped climbing outwards for one week. I did some training at the climbing gym, as this doesn't hurt my skin any further.
After 7 days without climbing outdoors, and you have to know that I really don't like indoor climbing, my skin got much better again, but still it hasn't recovered completely.
Nevertheless I was dumb enough to think that I'm over it and started once again.
It's not too hard to guess what happened next: yes, my skin got rotten again, and here we go! I'm sitting in front of my laptop, typing this damn lines, completely desperated as I know what's the only possibilty now:
At least a two-weeks-break, what's pretty much time during a 6-months stay. :(
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| I should't have started climbing too early again, after my first (7 days-) break. |
This week I still will be working on my project, because I have to wait for november to buy a monthly ticket for the climbing gym, to not waste too much money.
But then I will have to rest.....or not really rest. Because this is the only thing that keeps me motivated. I will train hard during this 2 (or 3....or 4!!!) indoor-weeks!! And hopefully I will come back to my beloved rocks even stronger than before!!!!
P.s.: I changed my project. The one before was super-supercool, but I found another one that suits my style better and for sure it's as cool as the other one! :)
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| My new project...the central line. Guess it's worth training for it in the gym a little bit. :) |
