The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.
Do not think about records, because one day, they will break.
Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.
Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.