Slaying the beast...CrossFit Style

In CrossFit...we have a rope that hands from the ceiling for climbing.  It is the same as the ropes that hung in elementary school gyms of my age and even though I could climb it (without feet) back then it has been a struggle for me to get up that rope now.

For many months it has mocked me.  The voices of my elementary (okay..middle and high school too) peers have (mostly) long been silenced by academic and career milestones achieved.  It has been replaced by my own inner voice which at times betrays me.  Up until this morning...it came from the rope in the back of the Box.  It mocked me with all of those things I used to tell myself...all beginning with can't...won't...never will be.  When I would pass the rope to use the restroom (like as the coach started to say we were going to start the WOD...oops...Gotta PEE!!!)  I would look at the rope and say...one day...you will be MINE.  Today...those sounds were silenced.  I climbed the freakin' rope.  Take that sucka and keep those thoughts to yourself.  Now, it is the rings...muscle ups next?