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May
30
The Graduates
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This is my sister Sarah (on the Right) and my cousin Elizabeth (on the Left). Don't be fooled by the sweet smiles - they graduated from high school on Sunday and then suckered all their friends and relatives into helping them pack more junk than you can possibly imagine from their rooms into various cars because they didn't feel like packing ahead of time or something! It was an event. My mom was fuming! And Taitt and I got enormous bonus points for our patience, since we had to take Sarah and a friend to Rumson NJ for their senior parties on our ...
May
30
Now it's time for some race reporting... This past Saturday, Taitt and I raced at the BikeJam Kelly Cup "criterium" - I use quotation marks because this was not really a criterium course, it was more of a miniature circuit race, a one-mile loop with a hill, lots of curves and turns, and not a whole lot of pavement (think Bike Path). We got OK starts, but the course terrain combined with the wind and the mild pace made it really hard to move out of mid-pack. And there was so much bumping, I thought I was going down so many times. I finally got to the front about halfway through the 20-lap race, covered ...
May
29
Save the Turtles!
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Taitt and I rescued a turtle from certain death this morning here in Somerville NJ (see speeding car in background)! I hope this bodes well for our race in a few hours...
May
26
The Trip Begins
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My teammate Taitt and I got to my mom's house in Maryland last night. We are here for a little over a week, for 4 races, my sister's and cousin's high school graduation, and lots of family, pony, and Mikey time. Mikey is the dog and he is awesome! I am doing this from my mom's dial-up connection which is an interesting exercise in patience. Anyway here are some photos: the car before leaving for sfo - i had to sit crammed between the bike boxes and the front seat, with no seat belt!! living dangerously. dan drove carefully....
May
22
Some Statistics…
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i had my old bike for 14 months, including like 9 or 10 of racing.i never crashed it once.i have had my new bike for less than 1 month.i have crashed it twice already!one time was in a race, at gila, my "crash" was sort of anticlimactic because i came down at the end of a huge, unavoidable pile of girls and bikes. but i saw it happening and therefore wasn't going especially fast when i came down.the second time was today when i dumbly assumed that since every other roundabout on california (btw berkeley's idea of a roundabout is pretty weak. they don't slow anyone down because they are too small, they just ...
May
19
Mrs. Tiredpants
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I have been so tired all day. Now it's bedtime and I feel like I just drank 3 cokes and chowed on a movie-theater box mike and ikes.I'm stoked about this new blog. Yay photos! I am going to post some more.But maybe tomorrow. Suddenly I am tired. Gotta take advantage...
May
18
Hi
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This is a new blog for me. I have been blogging on myspace for a year or so. Ambitious Me was going to transfer all my previous blog posts over to blogger so they would all be in one place... don't hold your breath. If you are DYing to know what's up in the world of Courtenay (who isn't?!) my page is http://www.myspace.com/cour10ay.Anyway the motivation behind the switch is it's hard to get photos onto a myspace blog. And my New Year's Resolution for this year was to start using the camera I got for Christmas last year, actually technically it was 2004. And I want my favourite little brother to be able to keep up with ...
