I haven’t written a blog in a long time. I should have written blogs since I was young because they have always been good personal therapy for me. It is a place for me to be heard, to speak my mind, uninterrupted, right or wrong, share my thoughts and opinions with whoever cares to read. It is also about being vulnerable to others’ opinions.
Betty Blog has always been intended to be a weekly or, in slow or very busy times, a bi-weekly contribution. However for many reasons, I simply give excuses as to why I haven’t written a blog in several weeks. It is not that there haven’t been inspirational stories or moments in my sport or my life for that matter. I just didn’t have the motivation to say my piece or the motivation to share my thoughts with the world. That all being said it needs to get moving again. Like when you hit a training wall, when you just don’t want to go for the jog on a cold morning, sometimes you just need to tie up your shoes and run.
This blog originally started at my request. I rarely read magazines these days. Even though I grew up as a young kid that exploded with excitement when Motocross Action magazine arrived in the mail, the Internet changed that for me. I don’t care what happened two months ago, I want to know what just happened. Sites like FreshDirt and Motonews brought me up-to-the-second news, and like much of today’s content, I gobbled it up as fast as it was served. Quicker, faster, and sooner is today’s world. I know I am as guilty as anyone. It is why I wanted to write this blog. I enjoy what I read on the Internet. It is instant reporting, reaction to news and events that still have emotion. The excitement of a championship still in the air, shock of a crash or excitement of a race still vibrate with authors and readers when it is told in the moment.
As I think back to my own blogs, my favourite blogs that mean the most to me are the ones that have struck my deepest emotional chord; from the very most heartbreaking loss at my home track in Walton to the most amazing and beautiful moment of witnessing my beautiful partner Melody bringing our daughter into the world almost one year ago. It has been these moments when I have been at my rawest, most vulnerable and most inspired that have made the best for me as a writer.
So it’s time to start it up again, to get back to writing. Almost four years of blogging about motocross, people, and as this proves, sometimes about blogging. It has been good for me and an outlet. It has introduced me to people to ideas and to opportunity all of which are wonderful things. It has been good to me and I hope it’s been good for some of you who read them.