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August 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pm (Biking)
Coach: “There’s some gear and a skinsuit over there. Take it. You’re on the team.”
Me: “But… But… I have swim practice every day, and doubles three days a week!”
Coach: “Good, then you’re in shape.”
I’m now part of the Forza Jet Velo cycling team in Portland. We’ve been showing up at their practices at the Alpenrose velodrome every few days for the last few weeks, just to be able to ride on the track and train with them for the time trial. Well, yesterday I broke their team record by a second in the 500m sprint (which is just under two laps), with 41.89, on a crappy rental bike. Now I’ve been recruited to the team. This is going to be great: it won’t interfere with swimming, because I’m not even required to go to practices. I just have to go to one championship race per year, which I already do anyway. And they just gave me a bunch of gear for free.
Looks like my legs are going to get a lot stronger by the end of the season…
Aveger said,
August 7, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Great. But they don’t have their own website (Forza Jet)?
Eamon said,
August 7, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Ya… looks like I have work to do.