Then they opened up the website for registration...
"That's not the right date" I thought to myself as I clicked the link for the webpage. They moved the date up by a weekend. How can this be? They have had the other date on their website for the past eight months. I had a sinking feeling in my gut that we had something else going on that weekend. I walked upstairs to check our master calendar and sure enough, we have a family trip scheduled to go to Wisconsin Dells. My wife's sister is coming over from Taiwan with her kids and her entire family has blocked off the time to be there.
I tried to figure out any good way that I could make it work and I can't come up with anything. So it looks like I will be missing the National Championships this year. I'm still training, but for a much shorter season. It's also harder for me to get motivated to get out and train hard without having as much at stake. But it might be a good opportunity to try some different things with my training.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. - Sri Ram
