Danger! Adventure Ahead!

So I graduated college...

Diploma

Success

And now I get to have a life for a year or so, then probably go back to school for a masters in rocks.  It will be awesome.  Now I have to do that lovely thing called find a job.  Hopefully the lessons I learned in college can help me out.  Lessons like:

1) How to not set a building on fire with lava

2) Before orogeny, comes subduction

3) Stress does not equal strain

4) Don't drink anything that was made in a tub

5) Riding your bike in Michaux makes you a real man (or woman)

Point number 5 is critical.  The other points are important too, but in the next week, Michaux will prove its worth.  As a nice break between college and "real life," I'm participating in the Trans-Sylvania Epic.  Yup.  Leaving tomorrow.  Starting Sunday, and for 7 days after that, I will be racing my bike around Rothrock and Bald Eagle State Forests in Central PA.  It is going to be the best of fun.  I have some stiff competition (JB, Mark Weir, Vegan Rob, Mike Y, Brandon D, etc.) but I'm hoping to do as well as I can overall.  Since there will be interweb access at the TSE base camp, so I may be updating you mid-week if I don't feel very hurty.  And yes that is a word.

So that's the adventure.  First TSE, then life, because folks, no matter how much life sucks, we have a good thing going.  This shit is an adventure.

Races beginning with G

Greenbrier and Granogue... Two classic mid-Atlantic races.  Always on back-to-back weekends.  A smart racer's only choice is to race them both.  Anyway...

I had some fancy wordy thing I was going to write here, but that was a week ago, and now my brain is fried from my calculus II final.  But it's done so that's good.  That's right internet, I'm halfway through finals week in my last semester at Dickinson.  It's kind of weird, but in a good way.  Things are changing.  I'm graduating college with a B.S. in Geology.  I'm racing my bike a bit, and just hanging out.  My birthday is tomorrow.  Life's pretty good.

So about this bike racing thing.  I had a pretty good race at Greenbrier raced singlespeed and ended up 11th.  I don't why but I just can't race SS.  It's a lame excuse for being slow.  I had a better race at Granogue.

Photo by Dennis

I raced my first endurance race of the year.  The start was fast.  The first lap was fast.  The whole race was fast. I ended up 5th after cramping up and falling apart during lap 4.  I did feel pretty good about the day though.  So as for now, I'm feeling like a bike racer and graduating college soon.

See ya'll at Cascade Classic this weekend!  I'm looking forward to it.  I've heard a lot about it and I think it should be fun.  Plus I may be able to pick up some cash in the Elite field.