Blue Star: Carpe Diem

I suck at posting to this blog. Lately, it seems the more I want to do something, the more likely other things will get in the way. The paradox of my life, which was not always that way. Well, today, I have managed to pull together a few spare minutes to create a post. Some thoughts followed by photos from Worlds and a cross race.

I am another year older today and another race season has come and gone. Reflecting back on Year 30, I find myself dissecting some simple, yet challenging questions: did you accomplish your goals?; what do you want to do next?; what will make you happy?. I think the answers lie in my favorite poem by Robert Frost.

The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

As I sit here at the fork in the road wondering what the future will bring, I know Year 31 is going to be an interesting one.

Some photos from Worlds at Sun Peaks

Warming up at Worlds in the Team USA jersey