"It is the possibility of having dreams come true that makes life interesting"
​Paulo Coelho.

This weekend we raced the Danish Championship. Unfortunately, I got sick last Monday, once again, (illness is hunting me at the moment grr). So I just focused on letting my body recover and get back to full strength as fast as possible. Well, I knew the fight for the jersey was out of the picture, but getting back to a 100% for Val di Sole (next weekend) has been the focus. Finally I was able to start the race and make my way to a bronze medal. Which I'm happy with. Success and failure is so damn close at this level of sport.  

Maybe it is what makes life interesting, the possibility of a dream come true. After all, I need to dare to dream big again and trust the process. 

Dream big. 2 little words, one big concept. 

Thanks for all your lovely feedback to my Video-story last night. Thanks for telling me that you still enjoy to follow along, even when things are not going according to plan. Thanks for make me feel safe to be vulnerable. Thanks for opening up about your struggles. <3  

I really could not figure out if I should open up about something like this. Because it feels like such a small thing, in the grand scheme of things, but yesterdays responds made me feel like I could do it. 
I'm well aware that this is not so bad, and there are plenty of great things in my life and in my racing - I am very content with who I am, where I am in my life, and what I'm doing. You have probably been through worse things, me like wise. And we can always find something worse or someone who experined something worse. 
But today I decided to write this down, and I decided that it's okay I feel this and open up about it. Because we're all human, and and pro athlete or not, we all go through highs and lows. 
But the good thing. After rain comes sunhine. Always. 

Love
​Malene

​The winter training is in full force as we reach the end of January, and the racing season is slowly (but surely) creeping upon us.  I like this period of the year, it’s when you can lay the foundation for the season ahead. After a reset in the off-season, there are always new little tweaks and changes to add. The forever chase for the better is motivating and makes it such a fun job to have. 

​They talked about how we create our own reality. It reminds me of the saying “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are”, I think it’s credited to Anaïs Nin, but whatsoever is so impactful. We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. Maybe the winter is also the time to change our set beliefs, about who we are and what we can do. I have built up a set of beliefs around myself, but maybe I can change that. Move that?  We build these to fit our reality. The brain is interpreting what is happening – it’s creating our reality from, past experiences, our interpretation of the present and the expectation of the future. ?

Well. That's a proper New Year goal. 

xoxo
Malene