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.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Settling in for the Summer
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 finally starting to show its effects.
And for racing, word on the street is that I could be headed to Trinidad and Tobago for a one-day race. This would be between June1st and 4th, and the event would have seven races in one day! Pretty crazy but sounds like a damn good time. And to top it all off the track is huge, like 400 or 500m, with 45-degree turns. I mean I need to go just to see this crazy thing. I can barely imagine it.
So we shall where life takes me next. I can’t wait.
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 finally starting to show its effects.
And for racing, word on the street is that I could be headed to Trinidad and Tobago for a one-day race. This would be between June1st and 4th, and the event would have seven races in one day! Pretty crazy but sounds like a damn good time. And to top it all off the track is huge, like 400 or 500m, with 45-degree turns. I mean I need to go just to see this crazy thing. I can barely imagine it.
So we shall where life takes me next. I can’t wait.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Changes
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 struggles that everyone experiences. Our only tool will be empathy. These relationships will no longer be personal; they will be constrained by technology. I guess in the end we will all be forced to focus more on personal attainment, which I am not ready for. Furthermore, I don’t know that personal attainment is as important to keeping the human condition healthy as keeping and growing personal relationships.
And as the time comes near I am simply trying to claw and suck out all that I can gain from these few remaining experiences.
So as we all go forth we should all stay in touch with those who mean the most to us, no matter if it is a friend or a relative. These connections are what keeps us alive!
Now I am tired, as my race today was nice and windy. So as a random person said to me the other day as I was riding home from training, “Keep on keeping on.”
Any thoughts? Stories? I would love to hear them. Please post in comments or send me an email.
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 struggles that everyone experiences. Our only tool will be empathy. These relationships will no longer be personal; they will be constrained by technology. I guess in the end we will all be forced to focus more on personal attainment, which I am not ready for. Furthermore, I don’t know that personal attainment is as important to keeping the human condition healthy as keeping and growing personal relationships.
And as the time comes near I am simply trying to claw and suck out all that I can gain from these few remaining experiences.
So as we all go forth we should all stay in touch with those who mean the most to us, no matter if it is a friend or a relative. These connections are what keeps us alive!
Now I am tired, as my race today was nice and windy. So as a random person said to me the other day as I was riding home from training, “Keep on keeping on.”
Any thoughts? Stories? I would love to hear them. Please post in comments or send me an email.
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