“I used to play lots of team sports like soccer and field hockey. And then I had an accident playing soccer.
I had a surgery and then I kind of had to restart my whole sports life because I couldn’t really continue with the team sports, which has a lot of stop and go. So I started climbing.
And I remember these days, it’s been five years now, but I remember really well starting climbing and how hard it was and how embarrassed I felt going to the gym and not really getting off the wall. And so but I also remember still going every second day.
And I was quite lucky because I joined an alpene club at the University of Maastricht. And so there were many beginners. There were also other women my age.
So we did it together.
And that was really how I got to, well, now being able to climb. And that experience is still, yeah, it was hard.
Like it’s physically hard.
But and then also some times mentally when you see like the guys that rip off their shirts and are always like monkeys in the gym. And there’s like the little cramps to go out and get off the wall and very intimidated by it.
But at the same time, like now I can do it. And I mean, I don’t know, you know, rip off my shirt. I don’t try to not like brag or rather help. Yeah, that.
So so there was a lot of belief in that in myself that I can do it.
And also this this learning is still very present for me that if I put a lot of effort, I can actually get there. ”
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