I'll keep it short (maybe). My race was extremely humbling. This is my second time and I did pretty darn good for a slow flat-lander last year. This year I was the 2nd to last female to finish. I had a horrible time. I loved last year but this year it was so much more difficult. Was it my training? Was it the altitute (severe nausea)? Was it just a bad day on the mountain. I keep beating myself up for my poor performance. I failed to do the one thing that I told everyone to do: keep moving! But I did fight HARDER this year than last year for my medal. I had to "sprint" to get in on time. So I really worked hard! Not sure I can muster the summer training and the fear of not making cut off times to do this again next year. Maybe I'll give myself 1 year off... Hats off to all of my fellow PPA'ers that fought to get in under the cut off for the medal! We were quite a team!!
