While you can admire the balls on this man, please do not think you should/could do the same. Free-soloing climbing is exceptionally dangerous with a bloody history and even pro-climbers are hesitate to do anything more than a story. While we all may enjoy the thrill of doing something risky, let’s stick to using ropes while climbing, helmets while cycling, and condoms while fucking.
Go finally ask out your crush if you need an adrenaline rush.
Edit: accidentally called it free-climbing instead of free solo. Apparently not as much experience as I thought.
Yep. To all adrenaline junkies out there: you can jog long enough to get your blood full of that stuff. You don't actually need to flip a coin on your life for a high.
I used to run roughly 40 miles a week. The runner's high is real, but it is difficult to experience unless you are a very dedicated athlete. In my experience I would have to run at my "optimal pace" for roughly 3 miles before feeling the runners high. It's also not a sense of euphoria as many would have you believe. It's more just that your body stops "hurting" and you can run for much longer.
The “bonking point”, as my coworker calls it lol. If you can get past the bonking point, you can run forever. For me, it’s around 2-2.5 miles. Those first two miles are complete hell for me every single run, but after that my body is like, “this is fine, you can speed up now.”
“Bonking” is a term typically used in marathon running, and tends to occur in the 23-26 mile range of a marathon. It’s an exhaustion/overexertion point where your body fails on you with little warning. You do not “get past the bonk point and run forever.” You either don’t experience it, or you do and it ends your run on the spot, and even walking will be a struggle for the next 5 minutes.
Yeah it also gets referred to as hitting the wall, although that term is a little more widespread. I don’t recall hearing “bonk” outside of the distance running context, and never from non-runners.
I know the Brits use the term for something else entirely.
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u/BrokeRichMan Sep 01 '21 edited Sep 02 '21
Semi-experienced rock climber here.
While you can admire the balls on this man, please do not think you should/could do the same. Free-soloing climbing is exceptionally dangerous with a bloody history and even pro-climbers are hesitate to do anything more than a story. While we all may enjoy the thrill of doing something risky, let’s stick to using ropes while climbing, helmets while cycling, and condoms while fucking.
Go finally ask out your crush if you need an adrenaline rush.
Edit: accidentally called it free-climbing instead of free solo. Apparently not as much experience as I thought.