Apologies for the lack of updates!  I think a big part of it has to do with the fact that with USA Championships coming up, I’ve been focusing extra hard on my training but on my outside work as well.  Knowing that I’ll be pretty much away the entire week for the competition, I’m trying my best to get ahead and complete the work that I would otherwise be doing that week.  That way, I’ll be able to put my full focus on the meet itself.  Honestly, I thought life after college was going to ease up a bit.  I definitely thought wrong…

While college was difficult in its own way, especially the combination of training and having a full schedule of academics, I now have a ton of other responsibilities that I never had to worry about while I was a student.  Supporting myself through my three-part time jobs and dealing with the projects that come with it is one thing.  I also never thought that monitoring my own meals would be this difficult!  The hardest part is cooking after being beat from training that day.  Man, was I spoiled during my college days.  Dinner was always waiting for me in the dining hall!

Despite all this, I’m enjoying the ride.  I’m learning a lot through the entire process.

On an unrelated note, I got asked to be a presenter at a regional gymnastics congress next month.  I’ve never given hour-long presentations on techniques for specific skills so it’ll be interesting.  But then again, how hard can it be?  I live, eat, and sleep gymnastics!