Doing an outdoor sport has its pros and cons. I love being out in the sunshine and bluebird days when the warm air hits your face to give you a cozy feeling inside. However, it is not always that ideal. These past four days has been the complete opposite. It has been pouring here with huge wind gusts, although I do love hearing the rain drops exploding on the tin roof, it’s not fun to snowboard in this weather.
So I have been filling my days with going over the copious amounts of emails I have been collecting in my inbox for the past four year, I am now down to 980 emails as oppose to 1900. I have been catching up on business which needed attending to, sending off photos to sponsors, watching movies, going to the gym, etc. All very mundane to me when compared to boosting airs in the half pipe. I find my situation similar to that of Mathew Mcconaughey’s in the movie Surfer Dude where he waits seemingly forever for waves to come in.
Tomorrow I will head to Christchurch to see some good friends whom recently had a baby. I am looking forward to spending time with Lori and Graham Strickert and their new baby Taz. You know the type of friends who you always just pick up where you left off? That’s these guys for me, where it’s about the quality and not quantity of time spent. As I get older and more transient I find these are the friends who truly love you and I value these friendships the most.
I will be away from the mountain for a week, the time off will be good in the sense that it will give me a good break from snowboarding so my hunger for it will mount. Time to reset the mind and body is always a good choice to avoid being burnt out.
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