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After Edmonton,
I seemed to drift a bit. You work towards a tournament for a whole
year and then suddenly it's over. I still
did a few competitions but at first the jumping didn't feel right,
until the last, where I could relax in the runup again like in
Calgary. So I got to keep Calgary and Rovereto in mind to built upon
next year. They really gave me the feeling that it is
actually easy to jump high. Well, as long as you think it is easy.
It is like a self fulfilling prophecy. As it probably is for most
things in life.
Anyway, I'm kind of evaluating the year now, cleaning up my desk,
doing all the things that I still had to do and making
arrangements so next year can be even better. I noticed that just
polevault doesn't work for me, I keep worrying about
the future, whether I'll jump high enough to go on with it or what
will happen after I quit. From March on I studied Design
here in Cologne, but this doesn't really seem to work, I guess I miss
the engineering part I had in my dutch studies. So
now I'm looking for a job to do besides pole vault. That will keep
me from worrying about whether or not I can make
enough money to keep on pole vaulting. Besides it'll give my brains
some other exercise. I've got a few weeks off from
training now, so it's the perfect time to get everything straightened
out again.
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June 22, 2002
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