I have been wanting to fly a kite but the all the ones here at the toy store are desperately ugly. Its too bad: its been rather windy, but my aesthetics prevent me from flying an ugly kite. I bought some sparklers instead, and an inflatable dolphin boat.
There is a lot of time leftover in the day [...]
Some anti-thought on a windy day
Augsburg.
The camp is over and I am training on my own in Augsburg for a couple of weeks. I am staying at the piccolo (they are painting it pink) and I walk back and forth to workouts and to town to use the internet. It’s not a bad life.
I think I figured out some important [...]
Augsburg on the 18th
Charlotte has been lovely post-trials. Not too hot, and it looks like it will be a rainy summer. With everyone going their separate ways after the race, we’ve had a small training group and training has been low-key and good, for the most part. I have undertaking not to get frustrated when I make mistakes. [...]
Springtime.
I can’t believe that in Colorado it’s still snowing!
Today we had our first thunderstorm at night. I woke up around 3:00 AM, it was raining on me through the window. At six, when I woke up for real, it had cleared up and I took Billie Sweetheart running. At the end of Hawfield, a pomeranian [...]
Charlotte’s first spring race
Race Day. The weather has cleared up and it is exciting to be racing in Charlotte, the venue of the 2008 US Olympic Trials. I think it was the location that made me so nervous; even though the race itself was not so important, I really wanted to do well here because of the implications [...]
