Given that I'm very happy with my results and progress from last year, the thread is a bit of a misnomer anyway.
I'm one of the very lucky few who have little holding me back. My work is accommodating, my wife is understanding, aside from a relatively minor crash I was pretty injury free for the meat of the season, I don't have kids or other big time commitments, and I lucked into finding the sport that I liked in a world-class region to ride and have friends with whom to do it.
So, what is holding me back? Not much. My goals and the items I listed in the other thread are things I want to work on to keep the improvements coming. They weren't limiters in as much as they were loose clothes flapping in the wind. I am happy with where I am, but I want to tighten those things up and keep moving forward.
Maybe I will revise
- goal 1 - enjoy riding and appreciate it. if I can't be happy now, when will I?
- goal 2 - finish the upgrade points, upgrade, try more crits and TTs and events to keep it fresh