Thursday, October 2, 2014

We Have Liftoff

To quote my favorite movie, “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you.” – The Dude.

This season so far has disappointed to say the least, I have very high expectations for myself and I didn’t deliver during the summer. But as always, every problem has a solution.
Starting in June things went wrong, I finished at the back of the Missoula XC race, a big target of mine. Then I DNF’d in Colorado Springs and then I finished 45th at Nationals. Hardly the results I had worked for, and sweat for. It was a summer of frustration and slowly that frustration grew into an altered personality.

Now it is October and things have changed. I’ve worked hard, put in big hours at home and in Leadville, trained mentally with strategy games, and even pushed past a broken hand. I can now go into Providence Cyclocross Festival feeling better than ever, knowing I’m more than ready and can pick up this season just where I left off last cyclocross season; at the front.

The quote from my favorite movie - “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you.” – no longer applies this season. I can move past all of the disappointment and anger to be better than I was, to learn and grow from experience. The new quote I use is only a one way quote by Sage Francis – “I'm gonna make em’ say Uncle, I don’t give up, I don’t give in.”