Last night I rode some single track I haven't ridden for a few months. There's a drop between two trees with a hairpin turn onto a bridge. It's always freaked me out. I start experiencing anxiety symptoms about a mile before this section.

I'm out there by myself, riding, riding, riding--trying my hardest to suppress thoughts of this drop. When all of a sudden I realized I just crossed the bridge. That. Was the drop??? No way! I just flew right over it. It didn't intimidate me at all!!!!

Doing the race a few weeks ago with the scary skills section has turned out to be the greatest thing to improve my riding