Well.....end of the road, maybe?

[McMurdo]

Alan
All the best with the back, I know what a back injury can be like, take care of yourself thats the most important thing.

[Alan H]

Alan
All the best with the back, I know what a back injury can be like, take care of yourself thats the most important thing.

thanks....

Something else I forgot to mention is that I'm sailing this winter with a good friend, Bob on his boat, doing the Midwinter series. I'll be sailing with Piper George on his boat, which is a sistership to the boat I sailed to Hawaii last summer. So I'll be keeping in touch with the sport that I've been so deeply involved with, for nearly 20 years.

After doing the TransPac, it's pretty typical for racers to come back to a pretty huge dose of depression. We've all been so focused on the race for so long, some of us for many years, that when it's over we're sort of goal-less. It takes a driven kind of person to put together the kind of concerted effort it takes to do a Singlehanded TransPac, and that kind of person doesn't do well living without Big Goals.

For me, the Heavy Athletics were there, to provide me with goals, and my "down" from the Singlehanded TransPac was relatively minor and only lasted a month. I can tell you stories of guys whose depressions lasted for months and months, who had a really rough time re-integrating their lives post-race. I haven't had that problem, in large part because of the goals I had with the Athletics.

So I'm grateful for that.

Anyway, onwards and upwards....