Coming Back

I realized the other day that the last two articles I wrote for Pedal Magazine were “Overcoming Fear” and “Overcoming Injury”. I joked that it would be nice to title my next article “What to do when everything goes exactly according to Plan!” but when does that ever really happen? After a fun week and Canada Cup with my Luna teammate Maghalie and her family near Montreal, Quebec we were off to Europe for our first World Cups of the season. I was excited and ready to be back at it, but also aware that I was coming down with a cold. Really? Can’t I just have a regular old problem free comeback? The best thing about a cold that knocks you out though is for the first time EVER I think I slept 7hrs on an international flight and then had 4 naps between Munich and actually arriving in Nove Mesto! All I seemed to want to do was sleep. My body has a pretty killer immune system though so by Thursday I was feeling pretty good. The course in Czech is awesome. The climb