At 1 P.M. I entered Monk to join the annual event Dust. Dirk and Kim were sitting at the registration table and I received a nice Dust shirt and a form with all competition boulders after signing up. I ordered a tea, looked around and had a chat with Jort Veen, my sponsor. I felt a bit tired but decided to warm up properly.

I had one goal for today: send as many boulders as I can. My secret of today: Lets eat a Powerbar first and then start at boulder number 1 and then sent the rest. That went well until I arrived at boulder number and it was a bit too crowded. Hmm, I have to find another tactic, this was taking too much time. I saw Casper ten Sijthoff and we were both looking for less crowded walls. That went okay too, however I decided to sent all boulders on one block. The boulders were fun, very diverse and creative!

After a while I sent 39 boulders already! The rest of the boulders were set on the competition wall. It was so crowded. Time for another Powerbar snack to keep up my endurance. Oh well, let’s send the easy ones first. I skipped the hard boulders for now. Sometimes I had to wait in line, but observing other people was amusing as well. Eventually I sent 60 out of 76 boulders. Some boulders I succeeded with more attempts and some boulders I didn’t even try. I didn’t even took a break, which was a nice training for my endurance.

At 5.30 P.M. it was time to hand in my score form. I took a snapshot because I was proud of it. There were lots of prizes, I was curious who actually would win today. Monk started with a lottery and then handed out prizes for each category. And saved the best for last, who sent the most boulders today. Hans Busker and I both sent the most boulders and therefore won Moon Dust for a year. I had accomplished my goal, I have enough chalk for now. This event was super! Dust was a must.

Truong's Dust form