Something New for Me...

We had our last day of ski school on Saturday and I know my son, for one, is excited to have his Saturday's back. I think it has been worth it, even on a low snow year. Our kids have become better skiers and someday I think they'll thank us for hauling them up there. We aren't done skiing this season by any means. We'll still drag them up, but we'll now go up later in the day and ski together most weekends.

I've officially joined a cycling team this year. I think it will help me be a better cyclist and I definitely think it'll help with my goal of Lotoja but that's not my only goal. I'd like to try racing too. In fact, I'm going to try my hardest not to fixate on Lotoja too much and I think doing a bunch of races will help that. Saturday will be my first official race. It's the Utah Crit Series out at the Rocky Mountain Raceway. I'm intrigued by the criterium thing and I think it will be fun. For those who don't know, a criterium or "crit" is mostly an american thing where it's not a traditional road race but instead laps done on a closed road. They are easy to organize and tend to be more spectator friendly, being able to see the racers over and over. They also tend to be very fast so I hope I can keep up. I'm excited though and I know my kids are excited too. My goals are to finish and not crash. We'll see how it goes.