Suhr the Blur

4am tomorrow I will be on my way to the airport to catch my 6am flight to travel all day to Trinidad and Tobago, arriving at 10pm. A nice relaxing day in the sky, hopefully. It is going to be a whirlwind trip. Arrive on Friday, rest Saturday, race all day Sunday (7 races I am told), and fly back Monday. It will be nice to see the beach again. I totally missed it in Aguascalientes "Land Bound" Mexico! Anyway, I am dedicating my races to my friends William and Cassie Holmgren, who are getting married tomorrow night. I am still sad I will be missing it since many mutual friends came into Colorado Springs for the wedding. But I am sure it won't be the last one in our group of friends. I will be sure to take many pictures of the festival and bring back a good story.

After the chaos of the last two weeks, I am finally in one place for at least two weeks. I have moved back in with my parents as I can not afford to commute the 90 miles from Boulder to the track more than once a week, and for the summer I will be on the track at least three days a week, so this would simply not work. My heart is still in Boulder and it will always be calling when I am away. I also started a job today at the USA Cycling Development Foundation as a summer intern. But for the first couple of weeks I will be helping to organize the 10 USA Cycling Development Camps that are planned all across the US in the coming two months. As for training, it is simply amazing! I am far above any point in last season and the real intense track training has not even started! Last Sunday we were doing 20 min Madison intervals behind the motor at around 56Kph, or 34mph, and I was barely breathing. I guess 3 months of intense training toped off by a Six-day at over 7000 ft is finall...

The coming two weeks will contain the most amount of changes occurring at the same time in my entire life, and I am not ready for it! Let me elaborate since that probably doesn’t make much sense. It is not that there have not been changes in my life before, but now all the friends and acquaintances that I have come to know during my years in college are moving on, and unlike in high school where most of your friends are simply people you know and see everyday at school, during college you hangout and get to know people very personally. And for me I only keep relationships that comfort and help me to grow into who I want to be. As I type this, I guess I am realizing that the whole community that I have built around me is about to scatter across the country, all following their personal dreams and aspirations. And from now on, we will only be watching each other from afar, understanding only the broadest of each other’s lives, not knowing nor being able to help with the everyday str...