It’s been a while since I last wrote and I’ve been a busybeavergrrr (shout out to OSU Cycling who won the NWCCC D1 title for the second year in a row!). As is par for the course, I’m gonna do most of my updating with pictures for your enjoyment. My drive home from Sea Otter included a stop at a military surplus store. In these times, I can’t think of a much more contradicting message as in this pic.

Are you ready for a blog-o-rama? Well, I’m not sure I want to write one, but I’ll give it a go and update people on what’s been going on in my world. Here’s the condensed version of what my typical week has been like:

Monday- Work 10 hrs, try to recover from traveling and racing. Wear compression shocks!
Tuesday- Repeat, tell myself that I’ll ride the trainer after work, but I won’t.
Wednesday- Run errands that didn’t get done Mon/Tues, work, maybe lift at the gym.
Thursday- Rest, and ride for 45min. A few times I stretched the ride to 1.5hrs.

So, while most of OBRA land is in Baker City racing Elkhorn, I find myself missing the faces of friends and the challenge of competition. Having been home for a few weeks now with good weather, I’ve actually been on my bike more than 45 min, 3 days a week. It’s been nice. I really wanted to be in Baker racing, and Brian even worked his butt off to get my road bike ready, but after some long rides it was obvious to me that I wasn’t in any shape to be racing a stage race. Oh well, there’s still some season left to show my face.

So…it’s been awhile, huh? Yeah, I’m about the worst blog poster ever. I figure that I at least owe it to my mom and my uncle Mike (I think they’re the only ones who check this thing…well, maybe Kenji too, but even he’s probably given up by now) to update ya’ll on what’s been going on in my world, and there’s been a lot!