1 year

Well a year and 5 days ago I was upgraded from cat 3 to cat 2. My first race was the Pro/1/2 crossroads classic. Ouch, that race lit my fire. I was super motivated over the winter just to do well in that race. The time has come to step it up. The first race is on Tuesday. My legs are still not 100% but I'm trying to be optimistic. Staying optimistic is something I always fail to do. I consider myself a little more of a realist. I look at what is possible. If there is not really a chance of completing a goal, then what is the point of even making that a goal? To be honest, I'm not the best at making goals. I remember, my little senior quote in the year book was from the movie Dodge Ball of all things. My quote was, "I've found that if you have goals, you might not reach them. But if you don't have any goals, you will never be disappointed." And to be honest that is how I've gone about so many things. Not only cycling related things, but life in general. Currently, I'm not even looking past 5 years down the road. I know what I would like to do 5, 10, 20 years from now, but there is probably less than a 1% chance of that happening. The hardest part of life is not dealing with the problems you expect. But the hardest part of life is dealing with the problems you don't expect. Perhaps I look at the problems to much. Perhaps that is what keeps me from being optimistic. How do you go about changing the way you think? Is it even possible to radically change the way you view life and its problems? Is it possible to change the way you deal with things? I understand there are life changing experiences, new people come into your life, people leave your life, things just happen. I guess looking back on it, I have had a couple of these experiences, and they have changed certain points of my life. But there are still several things that I need to change if I am going be successful in life. Nothing is going to happen over night. But as I said before, the time has come to step it up. Not just with the Crossroads race, but with life in general.
The first race starts Tuesday around 9 pm. I will probably give some sort of recap Wednesday. Thanks for reading
The Crow