A Hazy Shade of Winter

Winter arrived with a flourish here in the Rockies.  It snowed for four straight days and temps were in the high 20's.

Sad to say, but it's looking like its time to put the bike on the trainer.  It's also sad because this means an official end to the season.  A season that was not great.  I don't think I've ever had a season where I was sick and/or injured this much in my whole entire lifetime.  You can now officially put me down as a believer of the "Stress will mess your a$$ up" school of philosophy (it's a blue-collar club).  I work in the financial sector, and, well, things have been tough in dog years.  I guess it got to me as I didn't meet many (or, even ANY) of my goals.  I only raced a handful of times, and my times weren't what I hoped for and obviously I didn't qualify for Worlds (my secret hope-shhhhhh).

The good news is that when you have a season as bad as that last one for me, next season has the potential to look stellar.  When coming off a low, average looks good, above average looks great, and great looks All World.  Plus, Duathlon Worlds are in Edinburgh, Scotland next year!  One of my favorite cities on this big blue marble, so I'm really hoping things work out (and that if I work out correctly, I won't need to hope much).  Funny how that is really, the less work you put in the more you have to hope, and the more work you put into something the less you have to hope (clearly I get most of my philosophies in life from Pluggers and Love Is.