Monday, September 14, 2009
School?
the past couple weeks i have struggled to the question of what are you doing right now? While the past two years have been dedicated to school, cycling has slowly emerged as a major player. Right now i constantly second guess my decision to be ready to drop school momentarily if given the chance to race my bike with the para team. I know i'll have a great time racing my bike but i worry that i'll be wasting my time if I fail to make a mark due to a lack of fitness or experience. I think that most of my worry will subsidy with the new classification system that is implemented in the new year. Right now i compete with true hemipeligics who have a normal, unaffected side and often their leg on their affected side is not as affected as mine is. Because of this my hitting my time standards has been subpar without a single talent pool time, let along the scorching national standards. Next year the classification will be function based, which will help some athletes but hamper others. Thankfully whichever choice i make i will have a great group of people around me. My parents after attending nationals now see the level that i compete at and see that cycling is not a passing fad. In SB i have an awesome team and great friends who understand what it is like to compete at the levels i aspire to. I have a coach that is willing to put up with my bullshit and push me to my goal of making a future games team. And around the country i have teammates on the para squad who all have the same goal of kicking ass and winning some awesome bling.
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