Happy holidays everybody and welcome to a very special episode of the Asuka Cycling Coach podcast.

It's extra special this week because it's going to be extra short and it's just me,

Coach Jonathan here. I just want to take some time to genuinely thank you all from the bottom of my

heart for listening to this podcast, for submitting your questions, for sharing the podcast.

It's a genuine pleasure and humbling experience in so many ways for us to

be able to address the questions that you submit and answer them and prepare appropriately to

be able to answer them every week. I wish you could answer them all but we don't have enough time

for that and you wouldn't want to listen to us that much anyway. But I just want to thank you

because I know I'm speaking on behalf of my other hosts whether they're special guests or the host,

Amber, Chad, Nate, Alex, Pete, Ivy and all the special guests we've had this year.

It means a lot to us to be able to take some time and to focus on how we can best answer your

questions to make you faster. It's something that we feel very, very honored to be able to do that

and I just want to thank you. It means a lot to us. So thanks for doing that.

With a little bit of remaining time I have, I want to reflect on a statement that Nate made

early on in this year when everything was dropping, really, we're just finding out that

a pandemic and lockdowns and everything else could be coming upon us for the year.

This has been a really hard year in many ways. It's scale and also individually. A lot of

tragedy faced and a lot of challenge and I know that training can seem trivial and I

but I know how much it means to you. I don't know how much it means to all of us.

And even though it just seems like circles, spinning circles, it's something more and it can

be something more. It's achievement, it's balance, it's what we need a lot of the times and it's

our way of managing the craziness that surrounds us. And Nate said something that was really profound

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