It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing...
I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
My right foot hits the ground first, but my left one's gone AWOL, and I'm cartwheeling, my body mapped by local explosions of pain -- ankle, knee, elbow -- shit, my left ski's gone, whipped off, vamoo...