The Wheels Keep Turning.

So it has been just over a week since the conclusion of the 2008 US Olympic Trials, and things have calmed down to a certain degree. It is always interesting after trials when you take a small break from training every day. I often find that I have so much time on my hands, and nothing to fill it with, that I just end up sleeping a lot. This may seem like a welcome restbite for a lot of people, but sleeping a lot and not working out defiantly does funky things to my body, and makes it hard to get a good night sleep.
I was defiantly in a state of limbo after Trials finished up, what with getting sick and not performing as well as I had hoped, the results and what it means for the months ahead are drastically different than I had pictured in my head. To start with it means spending a lot more time at home this summer, and frankly I am not quite sure how I feel about that. For the last eight years or so, it has been summers full of travels, and road trips, long months spent in tents beside rivers and in the company of other paddlers. I guess it will be good to be home for a little while, and the great thing about this short time off from training is that I have been able to figure out some things I can do to pass the time when I am not in the boat this summer, all of which should be both fun and educational.
I am still not sure if we are going to go to the Pre Worlds in Spain, part of me really wants to go, and part of me really doesn't want to spend the crazy amount of money that travel is requiring of this Oil loving world, so I guess that one we will play that one by ear. I am headed home this coming friday, and with luck I will make it back in time to catch the last race in the High School championship series and in time to coach some of the new slalom kids that CO invariably produces, until then it is just getting packed up, moved out and studying for one last final.
Cheers!
Nic