Rider On The Storm

As you know, the best course of action to take when your backcountry bike trip gets cancelled due to the storm of the century, is to unplug, take a time-out. Yet, when we're trying, and failing, to pass that test, or the clinic is short staffed, or we're writing email after email of profoundly meaningless material, and we've got a big chair position looming in the not-so-distant future, we tend to push harder, overanalyze, get self-critical. Meanwhile, success comes from being in the flow, not forcing it until it breaks.