Racing Conference Championships at VT (with pink cast)

Leading Team Time Trial

Winning Crit at Duke

Broken But Still Racing!

So I broke my wrist a week ago riding mountain bikes with my roommate Derek. I am now wrapped up in a hot pink cast! Though the cast restricts some movement on the bike I am continuing the ripping on the bike. I decided to race this past weekend at West Virginia University with the cast on. I didn't know how much the cast would effect me in racing so I was not expecting for great results. Somehow I managed to grab 4th place in both the road race and the criterium which help my boost my standing in the conference. My roommate Derek, Justin Evans and I are all three in the top five individual standings for the ACC conference heading into the last weekend. The conference championships are this weekend at Virginia Tech and the races count for double points because it is conference. I am really hoping I can finish the collegiate season on a good note and hopefully win one of the races. The road race will be on Saturday with over 6,000 feet of climbing which suits Derek and I to the max. All the climbing will turn the race into a suffer fest fast and will cause natural selection on each lap. I suspect the field will be cut in half each lap until there are only four or five guys that reach the base of the final climb together. The last climb of the day is a three mile climb to the top of a lake which will prove once and for all who is the conferences strongest rider. Though I am biased, I believe Derek and I will be the first two to crest the top of the climb and take first and second. We have seemed the strongest two so far this season in hilly road courses and this one will be the hilliest yet. We will have the team time trial competition on Saturday afternoon which we hope to repeat in from last season and the criterium will be on Sunday. It shall be one exciting weekend with lots of suffering but hopefully so conference championships too! On the school side of things it is starting to get really tough. April means crunch time since there are only like two weeks of school remaining before the sweet summer begins! I have lots of papers and group projects to finish before the summer freedom arrives. Well its back to studying for now but results for this weekend will be posted soon!

Quote of the Day: "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." -Muhammad Ali