Conclusion: 6th Best Man. The competition ends pretty abruptly. We sit on the finish platform as they read off the top 10 finishers. We reflect on mistakes made and opportunities missed over the course of the weekend, but generally leave with a sense of accomplishment for having finished the competition and given our all. This was a disappointing finish for me. I know there are a lot of athletes I shared the floor with this weekend who would gladly trade places with me, and that 6th in the world is nothing to sneeze at, but I have loftier goals and expectations of myself. I make no excuses. I struggled this weekend with the elements and my preparation obviously was not where it needed to be. Sports is hard and you don’t always get everything that you want. I try not to linger long in self pity, but I do hate feeling this way and let that serve as motivation for the time being. I’ve got my list of where things went wrong this year and will do my best to come back stronger like every yea...