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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Time Is Honey

Lately it's been hard for me to find any energy to do anything productive in my precious few free moments. Things have been going full gas since I've been in Amherst, Mass. Most of my writing has been focused on my column in the Embrocation Cycling Journal.. So if you haven't seen it already, cruise over there to find out more of what's been going on.

The job has been more taxing than anticipated. It's like 30 hours of my week are gone, imagine that. I guess after 8 months sans job I was in the rhythm. Oh well, back to the real world. Not really, but I keep it real enough to count. Between the bike shop, training, racing, moving, writing the column and settling in I haven't had much free time but I guess that's a good thing.

The new locale is good but the weather up here has been crap so far. If I wanted shit weather I would have moved to Belgium. I need my SRM back so I can focus on something other than how bad the weather is. Hopefully we will be reunited soon. Come on tax return! Aside from the atmospherics, the roads up here are awesome. Plenty of 10-30 min. climbs close to the house and you can do six hours of flat roads if you want to. If this place was in Florida it would be perfect. Once it warms up it will be key.

Quick team recap. Battenkill was crazy. It was the most stressful race I've done, period. Basically, you're either going crazy hard or trying not to die, for 100 miles. Chapeau to Max and Peter who both showed their tough man prowess to finish in the front group, 14th and 20th I believe, respectively. Of the 100+ rider field of top pros and amateurs, the front group was only about 25 guys. So yes, it's hard.

Much more racing to come and I can't wait. We're still rolling with a somewhat abbreviated squad but we'll be in full force soon. I'm pumped to say the least.

K, now for some R & R. Stay tuned in to Embrocation, I'll be putting up new segments every other week or so. Hopefully I'll have the time to fill in the blanks here. Until then...