Mm Mm Good.

Alright, so normally I wouldn't be awake this early. Especially when I don't even have to race. But Storm stayed over, and I made a promise that I would wake him up at 5 AM (just for fun). Naturally, I kept my promise, and now I can't fall back asleep.
Um, this weekend has been going pretty well ... I've had off since Wednesday, so I spent Wednesday and Thursday visiting Yale and Tufts. Nice schools. I had a little incident on Thursday when I went riding with the Tufts people, and my front wheel was rubbing against the brake hardcore for a good 10 miles. Hellish, to say the least.
Saturday was the USBHoF crit. Pretty uneventful, except for Joe Saling miscounting laps and making the 13-14 boys and 15-18 girls do (GASP) 5.6 miles instead of 4.8 miles. Seriously, it was a sprint. And Matt Spinks is definitely not 14 years old. I thought I saw Lisban in the parking lot, but I didn't want to say anything. So what do I come home to? A message saying "Why didn't you come say hi?!" Classic.
My phone just started singing to tell me to wake up for school. Yay for Memorial Day.
Yesterday was the Bound Brook crit, and despite the insane heat, the course was pretty sweet, and it wasn't too bad of a race. I sat on Matt's and Danny's wheels until I realized that no one was anywhere close behind us, so I sat there until Matt attacked again, and then I just TTed the rest of it. I should really start working to help Danny ... Next time. I will. I spent the rest of the time chilling with Lewis, Amaury, and some girl from Florida - I forgot her name. I think it starts with an S. Oh well.
I should have pictures from this weekend soon.
Today is Tour of Somerville ... I can't do it because the promoters decided to change the Women's category from "open" to "pro12". Maybe next year. I'm going today as a cheerleader and to hang out with Lenore and make fun of people. We're so good at that.
NEW UNIFORMS! Better looking than the old ones, and the chamois is AMAZING. My butt was so happy yesterday. Really. It told me.
Alright so my internet just timed out, so posting this will have to wait ... So for now, I'm going to try to fall back asleep.


So all of the above was written at around 6:30 AM. It is now a little past 8 PM .... Somerville today was awesome, I've gotta say. I got mad sunburned, but it was worth it ... Shane Kline took home juniors (I believe), some Navigators guy took the Pro1 race, and I forgot who took womens Pro12. And I kind of didn't pay attention to the rest of the races, but I do know that Bodge took top ten in Cat 3. Storm got 15th, Josh S. got 12th, and Matt S. and Danny B. finished. Mad props to them.
Storm and I spent the rest of the time sitting the grass and watching races, or hanging out with Lewis, Amaury, and Lisban. Lewis spent that time telling Storm and I to be good. Amaury spent that time trying to piss me off by calling Alex over. Good stuff. And I had the honor of hanging onto Storm's phone while he raced, and someone (no names mentioned) called around 12 times. Within around 45 minutes of racing. I was impressed. And annoyed.

Pictures from the weekend later, I need to go do my Spanish project.

Pictures on wheels.

So here are those pictures that I wasn't able to post last week. Props to a bunch of girls wearing spandex - we rock at life, basically.

Lots of people, lots of bikes, two days.

So today was the second day of the Can Am. Pretty fun race, I'd have to say. Significantly fewer crashes than last year, amazingly. Harry, Josh, Pat, Chris S., and a few other people crashed. Not too many at all. Ry, Kevin, Brian and Steve came yesterday to help out since Dan is off in Belgium with Carter, and Kevin and Steve came today. My TT sucked in amazing ways, but the other two races went pretty well. My coaches (and I) were convinced that some people were trying to drop me from the fields (attacking every time I rubber-banded back onto the field - it hurt), but after talking to a bunch of people, I found that they weren't trying to get rid of me - they were trying to get rid of the sandbagger in our field who did no work and elbowed people for position. No names mentioned. Aside from that, all went well. I spent most of the time chilling with the CRCA guys in their van (NOT made to hold 8 people, in case you were curious) and sometime with Pat and Greg and Dan S. And of course some Colavita people. Slim pickings. A personal favorite from the weekend involved me opening the CRCA van door and discovering Connor on the floor between the front and middle row, Ian in the front passenger seat leaning back on top of Connor, Graham in the driver seat, Lewis in one of the middle row seats, and everyone else piled in either the middle or the back row. Pretty excellent. Love those guys. Props to Matt S., Andy G., Nina, and I don't know who else for taking home first in the GC!

Oh - and I have to say, Storm is pretty awesome. And his brother came up with an interesting theory, I think Elspeth unknowingly agrees with it.

Pictures ... (not taken by me)

AH, change of plans - pictures coming next time. My computer sucks at life.

Clip, Crash, Fall.

So today was half good and half bad ... The TT this morning went pretty well ... I was feeling pretty good until the last stretch, which was a false flat - totally sucked. But I used Lenore's TT helmet, worked perfectly. And Lenore and I might end up sharing Rich's TT bike because he is getting a new one ... haha. Anyways, so I got 11th in the overall juniors and first in junior women. Not too bad. I basically spent the entire time hanging out with Storm and his brother (who was our bitch during warmups, haha), and admiring the freakin bike shop he keeps in the back of his car. The course was pretty sweet, aside from the forementioned false flat. It was rolling, with a few nice downhills ... I definitely could have done better, but that's alright. And Storm and Matt S. both used discs ... And passed me ... Very noisily. I heard both of them at least 15 or 20 seconds before I actually saw them.

This afternoon was a different story ... I headed down to the track after the TT for a little track racing to start off the season ... And not only did Fraysse eff up my bike when he fit it for me a few weeks ago, but I got crashed. It was pretty enjoyable. Anyways, so I started the 8 lap scratch race with probably a 10 or 11 person field. The first few laps were fine, and then coming out of the fourth turn on the third or fourth lap, someone swung up without looking and hit Morgan's wheel and sent her down, and I went straight into her wheel and went over the bars. So that wasn't exactly fun ... So that race got neutralized and I got back in, and then I did the win-and-out. After that, the pain from my crash (messed up ankle, multiple bruises, and a bunch of scrapes) began to set it, so I didn't do the points race ... Aside from the incident, thought, it was pretty fun.

I'll go picture hunting in awhile ...

Southern Beauty.

^^ picture from Spain that I was trying to load before. Favorite one.

These (below) are from not so long ago, believe it or not ... around 3 weeks ago at my cousin's Bar Mitzva in Atlanta. My first experience with people photography.

Colt's Neck tomorrow morning with a huge junior field and a 3 or 4 hour wait between juniors and women. Yippee.

PS Napa :-)

Spain.

So my procrastinating in posting pictures, mostly due to my procrastination in editing them, has started to rival the senioritis that is starting to come about during junior year.
uhoh.

Last weekend was the elite training camp at Fraysse's, and I'm going to have to give DD and Chris Stern credit for being some of the best photographers I've ever met ... and Chris for melting some excellent ice cream. Great idea.
However, the two of them, and Andy, also had the best smelling room out of all 17 guys up there. So props.

היי בני!

Finally, there is something wrong with a junior in high school who can't spell the word "Kinnelon" when he has to write the location of the testing center for the SAT.

On that note ... Spain (there is one picture missing, I'll upload it next time i post):