Alex Honnold

And so like there is that extrinsic motivation as well.

And so then you're always trying to parse out like which part is which.

And, you know, because you don't particularly with free soloing, you don't want to be too extrinsically motivated because you don't want to get pushed into something that you're not prepared for that you shouldn't be doing.

Of course, you know, being even being extrinsically motivated, you can do something you shouldn't.

You know, I don't know.

I mean, but you're just constantly thinking about those things as a climber.

It depends.

So for the hardest parts, I memorized, like for sure, memorized every aspect of it.

But that's only the hardest part.

So that's maybe like a third of the route.

And then for the easiest third, and some of it is actually quite easy.

Some of it's like even a non-climber could climb small sections of the wall.

Like there are parts that are quite easy here and there.

You know, it's like not the bulk.

But so for the easy parts, you just know that you can do it and you don't have to stress it.

And then the medium part is kind of like the remaining third of the wall.

you sort of remember kind of like you said, motifs, like you might know the hardest part and you just kind of know that it's going to be fine, but you don't have to memorize it per se.

But certainly I knew the route very, very well.

You know, you just, you just know all the things that you have to know.

Yeah, but not as much as you might think because like I was only climbing it in shade.