I wrote this blog back in May as described in the following paragraph, and whilst the race team has battled a lot of adversity over the past few months, I wanted to share this exactly as I wrote it originally. I am working on a follow-up to talk more about the race team and how this season has gone so far, but for now please enjoy this ramble from me learning about cognitive restructuring and chasing a dream. As I type this, I am sitting at the top of Craner Curves at my second race weekend back in the British Superbike paddock. My journey to getting back here was an interesting one, inspired by Tony Robbins’ “Awaken the Giant Within” book that I was reading last summer. It made me stop and think, realising that I needed to reframe my learned truths about my working life and actually remember what…
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