finally!

It has been a great and productive off-season. I feel balanced and motivated and feel like I'm making some progress towards a PhD...I guess off-season did it's job. But, all it took was doing one race to get me really excited about racing again! I did my first running race yesterday and wanted to use it as a baseline for where I am in the early season. I haven't been doing all that much running so I had no idea what kind of race to expect. All things considered, I am happy with how it went and even more excited to get into some specific running work. Since the race I've been distracted by searching for different races to do next. I have determined that, if I wanted to and could afford to, I could do 1-2 races every single weekend starting this weekend- we have running events, duathlons, triathlons, XC + endurance mountain bike races and I want some of all of it. Not sure how my coach or my bank account would take that but I am 99% sure I will be racing again next weekend..mountain bikes this time, though. There are few things I love as much as racing...hello 2012!

Oh, and speaking of "finally"...word is our chainrings FINALLY shipped for our singlespeeds. It was supposed to take 3-4 weeks, I think it's been close to 10 or 12 weeks. I don't know, I lost count. So much for singlespeed riding in the off-season but at least it will be ready in time for SSUSA. I can't really say much for this company's customer service but hopefully the product is worth the loooooong wait.