So, I have two awesome things to talk to the world about today. First I will discuss my cross country skiing adventures. Last weekend, the team traveled to Soldier Hollow, Utah (site of the 2002 Winter Olympics). The first race was the 20K classic race. If you don’t know me, then you might not know that I suck at classic skiing, every lap I just saw myself falling farther and farther down the leaderboard. In the end, I lost like 9 minutes to the winner, in a 70 minute race. Thats almost as much time as Brad Bingham loses in time trials. The next day should have been better, as it was my speciality: Skate races that are mass starts, high altitude and have lots of climbing. So I was super duper excited.
Sadly my excitement was to go down the drain, as I was caught up in a high speed tumble that left me facing the wrong way with a dozen guys on skinny little skis plowing straight at me. Something like this, except it was a downhill so we were going like 8 or 9 hundred kilometers per hour.
Boom. Headshot.
I used my ninja skillz to avoid, and I was able to deflty leap away from danger. After that I was unable to catch the main field and had to settle for 21st place.
The following week I was graciously invited to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah for a testing camp with the U23 USA National Cycling team. It was a great experience: I did a VO2 test and a lactate test after not riding my bike for 3 months, I sat through a two hour meeting about how great chocolate milk is, I had my blood drawn and passed out because I am a huge baby, I had forgotten how much fun it is to hang out with Kevin Soller and I got to experience that all over again, the women who drove could not have possibly owned a driver’s license and we were all scared for our lives when we even saw her driving around. I did get some sick new riding clothes which I can’t wait to try as well as some new shoes and some custom E-soles, also some new pedals and some ballin’ white bar tape. I also got a wallet card for all the drugs I can’t take according to USADA, and about 4 litres of anti-sore cream, which I had to apply in liberal amounts to my saddle contact point after not riding for so long. Did I mention that it was 15 degrees and snowing the entire time we where there? Yeah, pretty darn cool.
On a different note, instead of doing homework today I have been watching Cycling.tv’s live coverage of the Tour down Under, and I have been getting stoked about the coming season, its gonna be good.
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