Saturday, December 13, 2008

Recollecting and Current Position

I started deleting all of my drafts that blogspot automatically saves for you and after that I started reading the comments I have been left periodically because blogger does not notify you when you receive a comment so if you don't check you'll never actually realize you were left one. I want to thank everyone that has commented me and just left anything from good luck to we love reading your blog.
Just for an update on my part, for everyone that could be interested and has noticed I have yet to participate in an invitational meet. You will not see me in West Palm but I have every intention of attending Roanoke which will be my first invitational of the season. It'll be awfully late for me to make my invitational debut considering that I haven't missed Greensboro in the last 8-10 years. I have been skating and I have been training but it just has not made the most since for me to attend these meets. Greensboro we decided wasn't going to be a big deal to miss because they were having Vinton and word was getting out that a lot of people were staying home for Greensboro and my team is not full of rich parents so we thought it would be a good idea too. Then it came time to sign up for Vinton and although my team went my division was not well represented. The winner of Junior and Senior actually came from my region which verified going was not a smart idea for me because we have the Keystone Speed League and fortunately for me at least there are skaters like Justin Mannon and Andrew Shatzer that aren't on my team but still attend these league meets and together we combine for a decent race that has competition. Yes, world team member attend our league meets.
On the year...
I still plan on attending Outdoor Nationals and I have every intention on skating very well. If I did not expect to skate good I would not go. I do plan to contend for a spot on the Senior World Team there is no purpose of me going if I did not. I already feel that we've picked up the intensity from last year to allow myself and others that plan to attend ODN from my team to have a shot at their goals. I state these seamlessly obvious things because there are many years this one included that I find first year Senior skaters to attend ODN with no intentions on making the world team. I find no since in this at all. There is no reason a previous Junior World Team member cannot contend with Senior skaters. If you could contend at a world level even for Junior you can contend for a US Senior event, yes you must train harder and stay focused but it is possible. Personally the number one reason for failing is because you don't believe you can succeed.

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