Somewhere between La Vuelta de Bisbee and the present I’ve flown to California a couple times, once from Colorado and once from Arizona. I’ve also driven the distance from Tucson to Boulder three times and moved out of my apartment and back home. A few weeks ago I started a couple of summer courses online–government and nutrition. Sometime in May I raced Collegiate Road Nationals and did well enough to find myself on the Ryan’s Collegiate All-Star Team (a composite squad) racing the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Oh, last weekend went pretty well at the Teva Mountain Games–TJ did an update for me. So here I am, in Minnesota and happy to say I’ve kept the rubber side down, haven’t been time cut, and actually sit somewhere in the top-50 GC. There’s one criterium left but this particular crit has a climb with a 20% grade. I guess if you’re not one of the top climbers in the country, it’s not a matter of if you get dropped but when. Amanda Miller, one of my teammates for the week has some good blog updates about the racing so far. Since she’s not a slacker when it comes to blogging, I’d suggest reading her posts and not bother with mine.

But I’ll post a picture from the time trial. I went about as fast as I look.