Nervous and Ready?
I take a deep breath “it’s going to be awesome” I say to myself for the umpteenth time. But, I don’t know what I mean. I am tired, nervous, and ready? It’s hard to pinpoint the exact state of my emotions going into my first elite track nationals. I don’t know where to place my expectations, I don’t know how to anticipate the effort these races will require, and, I don’t know how I feel about flying alone (seriously, I’ve never done this before). Uncertainty is natural. That said, I think it’s important to set aside these areas of “grey” for a moment. I’ve worked hard for this. This summer has been focused and I’ve paid an almost primal attention to this mantra “dig deep, recover, rest, and repeat”. A small part of this devotion has been on the bike. Real Life: It was, as my mother warned me, highly disorienting – graduating college. Suddenly you’re plunged into a new world of independence while also being torn away from the community, security, and routine campu...