shoegazer
03-22-2005, 08:52 AM
I figured that I would bore everyone with a story about my new Trango shoes. You see I did not bring any of my stuff with me to Korea. I have been here maybe 15 months and only thing I have really done is a butt load of hiking. Well I started piecing together a rack and everything and finally found shoes to fit my size 11 feet. Well this was in Febuary. I was staying at my girlfriends apartment and while she was in class I figured since it was a nice day and not to cold thatI would go down to the outdoor wall by Dongdague station. They have the standard wall plus a boldering/ warm up wall. I figured that I would try the small wall to get my shoes broke in and to get back into the swing of things after some serious time off. Well when I get there, there are 3 Korean guys, maybe in their 40's, and they are seriously abusing the big wall. Ultra fast, it was unreal. SO Im putting on my shoes and one of them points to the big wall and says "you go here?" Well instead of cowering away and sticking to my original plan, I go "yeah hang on a sec" so I put on my harness and shoes and go over to the wall. I tie in and they want me to send the same route as they were on. The one with the overhang. So I smeared chalk all over my hands, since they were already sweating, I mean I havent been up sh^t in over a year. I knew I was out of shape, but what the hell. I figured the worse thing that could happen is I pump out and have to take a ride back down. Things were good until I got to the over hang. My forearms were in pain like you would not belive. My calves were smoked and I still had the overhang to deal with. I could not quit in front of these older guys, I had to get up there. So I make a few moves and into maybe the 4th or 5th move I could feel myself wanting to vomit. I was sucking so bad. I could feel the juices in my stomach turning and I knew that the guys below were gonna get a face full. All of a sudden from the depths of my stomach up comes the surprise that I was hoping that I would not get. So what did I do? I held it. In my mouth with my lips tightly sealed I kept the contents of my stomach from spilling out onto my belayer. I finnaly reach the top and hang my head over the wall and let it go. I was dizzy and was sucking so freaking bad. They are shouting up at me saying something I dont know what it was. I finally signal him to bring me down and they give me a slap on the back and laugh and say more crap I dont understand. Well I wound up sticking around for a couple of hours with them and then we all went and drank Soju. Nice guys. I dont really know why I am posting this but there it is. Has anyone ever been sucking so bad that they wanted to puke?