It hurts so good...

I joined a gym.  As a Christmas gift to myself I marched my rear down to Granite Planet and signed up.  Granite Planet is a rock climbing gym that has all the weight machines, free weights and cardio machines you could ask for.  Oh yeah and there are some bitchin' climbing walls!!!  

I've spent the last two days climbing around in one of the two bouldering rooms and feeling the burn in my forums.  I was proud of myself the first day.  I climbed all of the routes rated V0 and most of the V1's... V1=pansy, V=wilting pansy.  Then today I was determined to complete all the V1 routes in the room only to be embarrassed by a 17 year old girl making the V4's and V5's look like they were escalators, V4=badass, V5=spiderman.  So I hung my head in shame and headed to the locker room.  Suddenly a voice calling for more rope caught my attention about 25 feet above me.  I raised my head only to see a 14 year old girl rapidly climbing a wall that was rated at 5.10 (I think 5.10 also = spiderman) and she was doing the hardcore "leading" thingy.  That means that she was attaching the safety rope to anchors on the way up.  For us newbies they have ropes that hang down from ceiling so we don't kill ourselves.

I got a long way to go, but I couldn't be happier!!!!

-dg