MTBing and Boulder

Ahhhhhhhh, cool, crisp early morning Boulder mountain air. It's so nice to finally be waking up here again. I've been here for almost a week now. However, it's still not totally permanent, I can't move into my new place until Aug. 7, and I'll be heading down to Durango today to pick up my car (Crawdad's been storing it for the season for me). Since I've been here, I've been riding my mountain bike everyday exploring new trails and trying to make every ride into an epic. I had to take yesterday off though, because I was just riding too much... it's hard to miss a day though, it's just too much fun. I was a little afraid that I would completely suck at riding my MTB after not riding it for about eight months, but after my third ride, I felt fully comfortable again and was shredding the trails as fast and as confident as ever. I'm really excited to be in D-town for the next few days to really hone my tech skills on some of my favorite trails. I think I'll start out with the Gulch, then I think I'll probably do an epic of some sort (either cascade creek or Kennebec pass), and then probably another epic. I think I'll probably be pretty shot after those; I'll probably head back to Boulder.

My team did great at Toona with Frank Pipp winning a stage and taking 7th in GC! Shriver also had a good ride just cracking the top 20 in GC. It was hard for me to check results and not be there. The team heads into what is being called "crit season", which is kinda funny to me because it seems like this entire season has been mainly crits. But I guess there are a couple of big money crits with purses around $125,000, so there's a lot on the line... and then there's the US Pro Crit. I'm glad Frank is riding so well, I think he's got a good shot at raking in some cash. It'd be nice to be out there with the team to help our sprinters do well, but I've got to start school here soon, so my racing season is pretty much over.

Anyway, that's all I have time for today, I have to finish getting ready to go to Durango. I'm sorry about the lack of posts lately... I'm not even sure if anyone checks this blog any more since I've been so slow at updating. I'll try to get back on the blogging program though. Thanks for still checking it.