Well it's been a while since I have last given everyone an update on how things have been going so I thought now would be a good time to send one out. First off I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year. I started off my new year by taking a hard fall while skiing at Sugarloaf on New Years Eve. I somehow managed to jam my toe hard enough in my ski boot to do some serious damage to my big toe. This isn't the way I wanted to start off my New Year by being injured.
Turns out it was nothing major and after a couple days I was able to walk and most importantly ride again. For the last week of my winter break I went over to Rutland, VT and stayed with a good friend of mine, Brian. I was living the life in Rutland. Brian and I would get up in the morning go skiing until the snow got pushed off the trials then in the afternoon go out riding. The weather was great the entire time I was there which only made the trip all the better.
Apparently it's against the law in the state of Vermont to ride two wide on any road no matter how remote the road might be. Some cop pulled Brian and I over when we were riding out by Castleton State College because we were riding side by side. Thankfully neither of us had ID on us so the cop couldn't give us a $225 ticket per person! So if you ever go riding in VT, ride single file even if you are in the middle of no where because the cops out there don't have anything else to do beside ticket cyclist!
School has started up again and I have a great schedule. I am taking a lot of business marketing and organization classes which I am really enjoying. I think this is going to be a great semester. I still have to take a final from one of my classes last semester and once I do that I should be on the dean's list again. So far this semester I have had a ton of text book reading to do. I am trying to figure out a way to read and ride my rollers at the same time. The process isn't going to well. I think I am going to need to find a trainer so I don't end up falling off!
So what's up with this weather we have been having in January? Twice this month I have gone out for a bike ride in shorts and I was comfortable! All this warm weather has been great for the riding. On the 28th I went out and did my first ever century and the last 50 miles I was riding in shorts. It was weird riding along in shorts and seeing people out on the lake ice fishing.
I have been putting together my race schedule for 2006. My goals are to win the national championships and attend the world championships in New Zealand. With goals like this I need to set up my race schedule based on the qualifying procedures to make the national team to attend the world championships. In May I am going to hit up the first national race in Fontana Cali (70miles east of LA), then in June I will be in NC then VT for race #2 and 3 in the national series. The weekend after VT is the world cup in Quebec where I will travel north of the boarder and get my feet wet racing with the fastest guys in the world. So far I have all of those races planned out. The national Championships are at Mammoth Mountain in California but the week before there is another national race in Sonoma which is part of NAPA Valley. I am currently trying to figure out the logistics and cost of staying in Napa Valley for a week in-between races. If all goes well I will hopefully throw down some stellar results at the national races and at the world cup earning myself an automatic qualification for the worlds. If this happens then I will get my way paid for to New Zealand and that's the big goal.
I hope everyone is enjoying there winter and maybe we will get some snow in February?
