I was like, "I lost a whole damn year". My original intent was to hang up my sneaks at 50. So I'm going to stick to that but losing a year...a whole year...made me feel like I'm running out of time.

I will never take that much time off again if it isn't injury related...at least until my self proclaimed retirement age of 50.

I don't think I'd gone a month without hooping since I was in middle school if it wasn't injury related (knee surgery knocked me down 6 months 10 yrs ago).