So I realized as I started writing this blog that it really feels good to get your thoughts and daily experiences down on "paper". Really it's obviously not the paper that does the mind good, but the process of laying down your thoughts into an easily digestible format of words, sentences, and eventually paragraphs.

Wow, I got all philosophical and stuff there. Interesting.

Anyway, I got moved in here at Union on Saturday afternoon. "Moving in" consisted of grabbing my bags and bikes, throwing them into a corner of the room, then walking into town to get pizza. I would say it was a success.

Today was also a great success, with my first bit of riding/training for the week going in on the trainer. Me and Zach Winn, my canadian friend from school, set up our trainers next to the TV so that we could compete in a heated match of Downhill Domination. For those of you that don't know, Downhill Domination is the best mountain bike game to be released ever. Even though it is highly unrealistic, with your character going of 500 foot cliffs, bunnyhopping over trucks, and riding through lava floes, it really is the closest thing to real mountain biking you can do on a video game. Definitely not a good substitute for the real thing, but it will get you by when there are dangerous patches of ice and snow on the road and you're a pansy. I will always feel like a pansy when I see the conditions J-Stamp has to ride in sometimes. I don't think I could take it.

As a plus, we used old textbooks for wheel-leveling blocks. Perfect. I didn't like spanish anyway, and it only cost me 3 dollars. Heckova lot cheaper than most commercial ones you find.

Good night bloggers.

New Things

So... quite a few new things since my last blog post. And for all of you that have been sitting out there, waiting and hoping that I would start posting again, I'm sorry. To all of my loyal fans, I'm sorry. So basically I don't apologize to anybody. Haha.

Anyway.

- I attend Union College now

- Our team placed 2nd at Collegiate Nationals

- Cycleyouth has morphed into a U23 Pro team sponsored by Kenda/Thomson/Giant/Hayes/Manitou, etc.

- If you want to support us I can sell you some really good Going Pro Coffee or some Vermont peanut butter. Let me know.

- I grew several inches

- I got a new bike, cracked it, rode it the rest of the season, then went back to my old bike.

- I went to Germany for a usacycling development camp. That was cool.

- I got a slackline for christmas. yay!

As I write this list I realize I'm too lazy to go in depth about how my summer and fall was. It's the college kid in me. Although I should have plenty of interesting things to write about once I get back to Union for the second semester. I have this sinking suspicion that one of my friends is a superhero, so if that plays out the way I think it will it should make for an interesting story.

Good Night to all!

oh, picture from nationals that made it into Mountain Bike Action. The article was about how to fall correctly. Caption: "This Rider does a good job of tucking and rolling after slipping on a root." I endoed, no root. Oh well: