Oh, no, I'm still gold! I completed the challenge. That make me gold until the end of this year. I just didn't have any status pts roll over. So I need a full 50k status pts this year to maintain gold.

It shouldn't be too hard. I got 25k in the last 4 months of last year (5k from FTE, 5k from CC spend, and 15k earned the old fashioned way). Even if you ignore FTE that puts me on a pace to earn 45k from flying and 15k (the max) from the CC. So even if I slow down the flying a bit I should be fine.