First goal accomplished!!

I now have 8 races, on 3 different tracks, over 2 seasons,.....first goal accomplished.....I can now focus and concentrate on truly qualifying for the Olympics, and it all starts next week.
Next week I will be training and competing on the track that will host the Challenge Cup, the Olympic qualifier. It's a little, beautiful and pituresque town called Konigssee, near the Austrain border. The track is fast with quick high pressure turns which includes a true 360 degree kreisel that apparently, everybody flips out of......that turn will be the make or break point for anyone....should be interesting!!
The beauty of the sport of skeleton, I have realized, is that we are on top of the world. It is so amazing and peaceful when we are at the top. You look around and you realize that you are away from it all...the traffic, work pressures, nasty people, politics, religion, TV, useless bickering, etc.....you are now in natures' playground.
I find my mind is quite relaxed when I look around myself, my mind just drifts and I think about all the nice stuff, just about life, just about being alive, just about being so fortunate in this life......this experience to date has been remarkable.
Don't get me wrong, these thoughts are all before I get to the starting block. Once there, I am only thinking about the track and what to do to go faster and get down cleaner.
Anyways, it is amazing what you experience when you remove yourself from daily life and put yourself in natures' peacefulness, where you have no control and no social pressures.........people would learn to free their mind, their body, their soul, and their spirit........the world would be a better place.....
Pic is mountain backdrop of track in Konigssee...