Working Things Out
This blog thing seems to be going all right so far. Now all I need is a camera so I can start taking tons of sweet pictures. My mom says that with all the traveling I've been doing I really should have a camera (Translation: She'll buy me a camera when you come home for Thanksgiving). Let's hope Colt can have some guy he knows make me a sweet picture thing on top like the one that he has.
We (CSU) raced in New Mexico this weekend. It was a lot of fun, besides the 9+ hour drive and tons of detours and pee stops. I had a great ST race. I think I took 7th in the Men's A's, which I was pretty pleased with. I started at the way back of the pack when I slipped out of my pedals at the start, but was able to fight my way back up through the ranks. I don't think Aaron was too happy that I beat him though, he doesn't like losing to teammates. The XC was a different story though. I'm not too good at these 2+ hour races, I'm used to the 1.5 hour races that are so junior-esque. My time was 2:1oish, which was about 20 mins off the lead...not too bad considering my average heart rate was 164 and I felt like I couldn't get it going the entire race. Let's hope my decent showing this weekend convinced the coach to put me on the team for nats (Andy, I hope you're reading this).
I just mounted my cross tires yesterday on my RD-400 wheelset. The Fuji is looking pretty sweet nowadays. I think I'm gonna do a team cross ride on Wednesday night and practice doing some barriers and stuff. I need to get ready for the BRC and Gearworks cross races that I'm going to be doing over Thanksgiving break. I'm gonna try racing A's, my goal is to stay on the lead lap. I don't know if that's possible though when I'll be racing guys like the one and only T-O double D.
We (CSU) raced in New Mexico this weekend. It was a lot of fun, besides the 9+ hour drive and tons of detours and pee stops. I had a great ST race. I think I took 7th in the Men's A's, which I was pretty pleased with. I started at the way back of the pack when I slipped out of my pedals at the start, but was able to fight my way back up through the ranks. I don't think Aaron was too happy that I beat him though, he doesn't like losing to teammates. The XC was a different story though. I'm not too good at these 2+ hour races, I'm used to the 1.5 hour races that are so junior-esque. My time was 2:1oish, which was about 20 mins off the lead...not too bad considering my average heart rate was 164 and I felt like I couldn't get it going the entire race. Let's hope my decent showing this weekend convinced the coach to put me on the team for nats (Andy, I hope you're reading this).
I just mounted my cross tires yesterday on my RD-400 wheelset. The Fuji is looking pretty sweet nowadays. I think I'm gonna do a team cross ride on Wednesday night and practice doing some barriers and stuff. I need to get ready for the BRC and Gearworks cross races that I'm going to be doing over Thanksgiving break. I'm gonna try racing A's, my goal is to stay on the lead lap. I don't know if that's possible though when I'll be racing guys like the one and only T-O double D.
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