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I haven't gone bouldering in months. I've never been very good (At my best, I've barely been able to do v3 routes), and I think most people improve faster than me, but I've always liked being there.

In Pittsburgh it was easy to go regularly, because my friends would drag me along whenever they went. But here... the only other person I know who climbs is way better than me¹. I get the impression that many people treat climbing and ?especially? bouldering as a sorta social activity, and like meeting other people doing it... and lots of people have talked to me while I'm at the gym, and nearly all of them are from out of town.

I think I said on Monday that I would go today, but I don't want to! I'm cold! It's far away! I hate it!

Real reasons to not go: It would suck to wreck my tendons again. My knees were angry the other day for mystery reasons.

Reasons to go / reasons to not not go: My shoulders/elbow/hands hurt in the way that climbing seems to help with. I have plenty of time. I can bike there now. It's cold, so I can wear clothes I don't feel weird about.

I'm going, I'm going.

[1]: at climbing, at working, at being a good person², etc. what a good person! it drives me up the wall. alas, only metaphorically. I do like them, as a person and as a friend, but I think climbing with them would lead only to me comparing myself to them and falling short every time.

[2]: they couldn't come to wafflesgiving because they were doing rescue in the wildfires.