Another Day In The Hood: September 2010

Well, to start things off I lost a bike race to a teenager. Yeah he might be more accomplished than me and a protege of LANCE ARMSTRONG, but hes still a child compared to me, and he beat me in a sprint! Gavin jumped before me, came around me, then I wasnt able to re-open and close his door. The Portsmouth Crit was awesome and I was legitimately beat and I am very happy that I got the opportunity to race there this past weekend. There were a lot of good riders from the local scene, and it made for a fun challenging race. I put out much higher numbers at portsmouth than I did at the USA Crit finals in Dallas. Consider that at dallas I was hiding out the whole race and at Portsmouth I was trying to make up for Richard Fries not giving me a call up, so I was riding off the front as much as I could, but for a local race it was pretty good.

I have been sitting around starbucks since 9am... chillin and interneting. I've drank two grande cups of Italian roast and a sausage breakfast sandwich. The toughest decision that I have made today was calculating what screen brightness to use to assure that I will have enough battery life to last until 3pm when I go for a bike ride with my very busy, but very close good friend Ben Coleman. If your wondering I calculated right. 2:07pm with 1:27 battery left.

I have no idea what to do with my time this fall. I could stay here in burlington doing nothing, but being with my friends, then move to Tuscon after christmas to start training for 2011 race season, or I can move back to the TMK team house in winston-salem and have free housing and a job! I know what decision I should make, but its not really the one that is going to make me the happiest. If anyone knows how I can make money in Burlington please let me know, Escort services is not an option, sorry.

My dads coming up to VT to go fishing with me tomorrow or friday. I hope his old man wisdom will help make this decision a bit more easy.

so first thing, im not very committed to the blog... clearly. But I intend on working on our relationship in the next few weeks. Im super bored with writing about bike races, soon my life will get more interesting. Tonight it the finals! tonight I have to defend the jersey for one last day. Im feeling good and the team is really riding good. My two older brothers flew out to watch the race and I was lucky enough to get them two VIP passes, courtesy of Geoff Godsey from Texas Tough. Shits gon be Dank! Im pretty nervous, but I am confident in my abilities and Im confident in my team. So, on that note, let me just post a few pictures of things that make me happy.