Summer....

I've not had a summer for around 3 years but I guess I have done 5 back to back winters, I was hoping for a 6th this summer but it wasn't meant to be and in a way a feel it was a way of being told I needed a summer to try new things, refresh my head and figure out a bunch of stuff!! 

I have to say it's weird having a summer but I am also loving it at the same time!! When I've been away on winters I have dreamt about summers too as have always been a fan of the sun and the water. But I guess I just love snowboarding more which is why I have been following my dream of snowboarding giving me the life I had only dreamt of before. At the end of the season I had lost my stoke on snowboarding and I think this had been building up over the season, I loved instructing but riding for myself just wasn't so fun, I think this was due a lot to riding myself a lot as when I had the privilege of getting to ride with others even if only for a few runs it lit that fire inside me and I loved it. I need that push and feeding off others energy to inspire me to do things I know I can to but will talk myself out of it if alone!! I hate myself for letting it get to that stage but I am a loner by circumstance not by choice and events from my school years have carried on and I have this self doubt that riders and good riders would want to ride with me. No this is not some sob story to make you feel sorry for me but more of me just getting it out so I can move on and keep persevering with the never ending task of feeling confident with myself!! But as the summer has gone on I am already feeling that stoke coming back for snowboarding and hope that this next season in Mayrhofen I will push my riding further than before and also hopefully have some people to ride with who can help inspire and push me to get out of my comfort zone and become the rider I have envisioned all these years!!

It has been suuuuupppppeeerrr HOT here in Mayrhofen the past week, in the 30's everyday but now it has got cooler and rainy!! From swimming everyday last week as good for ankle rehab to being bored and chilling inside, I've never not worked for this long and although the break from working was nice at first as I have done a lot of work over the years I get bored real easy. I bumped into a couple of friends at the pool last week and one was heading to a beach spot by the river with some friends and asked if I wanted to head along, so I did and it was fun, a cool spot for sure and on a really hot day like it was was nice to jump/ swim in the ice cold water, even if only for a few seconds, haha!! It made up for not doing anything for my birthday the day before, although my flatmates Jasper and Anne I think more Anne made me an awesome apple birthday pie which was a super nice surprise as didn't think they knew it was gonna be my birthday!!

So basically I've been learning to skate, go running, swimming and hiking, have gone climbing and biking, so an active summer so far just the way I like it!! :)