2020 Recap

Oh my God 2020 what a year!

When I was a kid, everytime I think about the year 2020, I would imagine I would be a 30 something mom with 4 kids. It was not a year I was looking forward to cos I thought I would be old and my life wouldn’t be anymore interesting that it already is. What a weird thinking.

So 2020 started off great when I send my project on that PCP big wall in January. I was so looking forward to training for some competitions later on the year but before that I was busy training for Kinabalu in March. Little did I know, after Kinabalu all my climbing progress were put on halt.

I already wrote a post on how depressed I was going through the first mco. All March to June I just watch that video of me sending the Blue route over and over and over. Wishing that wouldn’t be the last of it.

But after that, things were not as bad. Great actually. 2020 marks a lot of my firsts, some achievements that I did not think I’d achieve. I would summarise 2020 as a year of ‘growth’. The year when I go out of my comfort zone. Get out from PCP, climb elsewhere, make friends with new people and that new people expose me to new environment.

July - It started with me joining Battle of The Boulders in Utropolis. Where I met with Pian and Acan, whom are rock climbers and since its on and off lockdown and we can’t climb in gyms, they brought me to climb outdoors.

So that’s when my rock climbing  journey begin. 

August - went to One Utama to pursue my red key goal.

September - I’m halfway to getting the red key by sending a 6c route. My first indoor 6c ever!

September - Joined the National Selection. My first lead comp. And my first boulder podium. 

October - Second mco happened, my rock journey continues. I was still adjusting to climbing rocks and still getting used to all the hikings and the dirts and the scary falls but slowly falling in love with it.

November - They brought me to my first multipitch climb in Nanyang Wall. A 3pitch route called Circumcision, 6b/+.

When the mco is lifted, I went straight back to One Utama and complete my red key mission when I send a 6c+ route. My first 6c+ indoors.

November - On the 28th, I send my first outdoor project, Nov 61, 6c in Whitewall. Honoring the month the route aptly named.

When the guys first brought me to climb outdoors, they tasked me to project this classic route, Le Futur, 6c in Nyamuk Wall. They said Le Futur is a benchmark for those who just started to climb in Nyamuk. You send Le Futur first, you are en route to send everything else in Nyamuk Wall.

December - After the lockdown lifted, after Nov61, I came back to Nyamuk Wall and send Le Futur on 8th December.

Then they say I should be able to proceed and try Pear, 7a. If it were on a different circumstances, I might not be as confident to try a 7a route, but these guys do more than convince me that I’m able to do it. So I send Pear, my very first 7a on 20th December and say goodbye to a hell of rollercoaster ride of 2020. 

I am super grateful for this year despite everything that happened, when I thought my climbing will be put on hold, it turned out to be the other way around.

So so grateful of the experience, the people I met, Alhamdulillah I still have a lot to improve in my climbing and I hope this momentum will carry on in 2021. InsyaAllah.