Coming to a Laundromat Near You

You know you live an exciting and meaningful life when your biggest event in the last two weeks is having your IPod quit working. For me, it was devastating. Fifteen minutes into my ride today my music stopped playing and I was confronted with a frowning IPod icon on my screen.


After nearly 4 hours of listening to myself sing "The Hustle" in my head I found myself back at home. When I'm riding the road bike I need all the extra stimuli I can get so a broken IPod is a big deal. I sort of felt like this as I realized that I wasn't going to have music for the rest of my ride. Man, I hope I can get it fixed. Otherwise I might just have to stop riding.

For those few people who actually read this blog you might remember a post that I did a few weeks ago about living in the back of my car. Well, Fred Drier from VeloNews thought that my accommodations were a humorous enough testament to the current state of mountain biking to include a few sentences about it in the beginning of the article about the Santa Ynez race in the latest issue of VeloNews. Check it out.

In other news, Evan, Owen, and I will soon collide at Mt. Hood, where we will each try to have the highest average speed after six days of racing. As for Sam, he is currently sharpening his fitness so he can tear off some Euros' legs at the second World Cup in Offenburg, Germany. Maybe, if we all shut our eyes and wish really hard, Sam might post a few pictures and words about his experience. Don't hold your breath though.

In the meantime I'm settling into my new digs in the high-elevation town of Durango, CO, (I can practically hear my blood thickening) and pursuing a job at a local laundromat. Just wait until I let Montana State University know what this recent engineering grad is doing with his degree. They are going to be SO proud. Hey, maybe VeloNews will think that this is a funny enough to include in their next issue. Keep your eyes peeled.

Until then, do the hustle.