I’m going bouldering again later today.
It’s a hobby of mine I wasn’t putting a lot of effort into recently. But I’m changing that.
I just went last week. Today I’ll go again. And I’ll probably go another time this week as well.
I still have to decide whether I want it to have a fixed date & time in my routine or if I want to keep it casual. But going at least once a week doesn’t seem like a bad start.
Usually when I go bouldering I go with the same group of friends. Good friends from uni.
But not today. Today I’m going with my sister. She’s never been bouldering yet and I thought it’d be fun to convince her to join me. Apparently I’ve been doing a lot of convincing with family members lately. Some people even called it reverse parenting.
And yes my sister also joined my email list, just last week the day after my mother joined. I’ve got the whole family watching now.
Back to the topic at hand. Bouldering.
I can’t remember exactly how many times I went. But it’s been quite a few times already.
And here’s the thing. I always get a day pass. There are several different gyms/boulder places where I live and we like to switch it up once in a while. So it’s actually cheaper to get a day pass every time rather than a monthly membership.
But there’s another thing I have to pay for as well. The shoes.
You see, bouldering, just like bowling, requires you to wear a specific type of shoes. Really flexible shoes that fight tightly around your feet.
You need perfect support and balance after all. Can’t go climbing with sturdy ass shoes.
I don’t have my own boulder shoes yet. Luckily every gym allows you those borrow a pair when you visit. Those cost me around $5 every time I go.
Now here’s the thing. I could probably buy decent shoes myself for about $50.
An investment that pays for itself after going bouldering just 10 times.
An investment worth making when you’re serious and you know you’ll be doing it for a long time.
Imagine if I were to go bouldering every week for 2 years straight. Every week I’d go and borrow some shoes because I think the investment of buying my own shoes is too expensive.
That’s $520 down the drain. $520 I’m not getting back and hasn’t gotten me anything.
Sounds stupid, right?
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Don’t be one of those people.
I’m going to buy myself a proper pair of shoes this week.
When will you?
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