Dream Big Wall

Truth be told, there’s nothing more that I like blogging about than my climbing journey.  Yet, as I find myself reflecting on the past year, I realize this is only my third climbing post in 2025.  Since June, most of my energy – and the lessons I’ve learned in fitness – revolved around training for the NY Marathon.  That’s not to say climbing took a back seat on my journey – only that it did in this year’s content.  In fact, as I look back on my climbing year, I realized that I never even shared my highlight of the year – climbing in Moab.

A year ago, I wrote my year-end update on climbing along with my aspirations for 2025.  It took looking back on that post to remind me that I was only just a beginner in 2024.  In fact, when I launched Legally Fit in May of last year, I had only just recently climbed outdoors at The Gunks for my first time (with only one other experience before that on an Alaskan cruise in 2023).  I had contemplated making a mountain part of the logo for Legally Fit before launching it last May, but ultimately, I thought it might be too presumptuous to include something that was so new in my life.  I knew I loved the brief taste of it that I had, but was it possible that I would really turn my hobbies upside down to make this new adventure as big a part of my life as I dreamed it would become?

If each year of my climbing journey is its own title, 2023 would be Trying Something New, and 2024 would be The Journey Begins.  For 2025, as I’ll explain below, the title is Dream Big Wall.