Its been a long and busy summer. Racing has called for a lot of traveling. Helping put races on has taken a good chunk of time too. Its all been fun and wouldn't change a thing, but I'm finally getting a chance to take a breathe and catch up a little bit.
Most of my racing is done for the year. 3 National Ultra Endurance races since the end of July were a blast, but the travel was exhausting. I would seriously rather sit on my bike for 8 hours than sit in a car for that long... Without anything else really scheduled for the rest of the year I'm pumped to just see what comes my way. Of course that means that I've already got a century fundraiser that I'm planning on riding/working, a 12 hour race I'll look to be teaming up on, and some epic 50 mile urban/trail epic thingy that I have no idea how will work out, plus finally checking out the cyclocross scene. Did I mention that I don't idle well? The point is that nothing is structured and I'm kind of excited for that.
One of the great many things that happened this summer for getting into the coaching world was getting my first article published.
http://granfondoplus.com/content/overcoming-cyclists-posture
I was happy to have the opportunity to write for the site, which is newly launched. Whats great is they've asked me to keep contributing to their "tech tuesdays" articles, so no real chance to "catch up" its time to keep pressing on!
Most recently I spent the weekend in South Portland going through the League of American Bicyclists "League Cycling Instructor" certification course. It was a long, but really enjoyable weekend of practicing teaching road skills, bike handling skills, and educational modules. I'm excited about the connections that I've made and am looking forward to doing more work as an LCI, and to be working events as a representative of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
So I would say fall has arrived and I'm sure that at some point things will come to an absolute screeching halt. But for now I'm going to enjoy keeping busy, decompressing slowly from the craziness that was this summer, and continue to press forward with the opportunities that continue to present to me!
