Not long until my first race!

Hey everybody, sorry for the hiatus on my blog for the past couple of weeks. I had a long weekend in Seattle with the family for my grandmothers 70th birthday. My aunt and uncle did a suprise party that they had been planning since before Christmas. We had a lot of cousins that I had not seen since I was probably 8 or so, so it was a lot of fun for sure. We spent a day in downtown Seattle ate some really good seafood, and went to a music museum called the EMP. It is a tribute to a lot of the music that has some out of Seattle, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix. But it was a pretty cool to see a lot of the memorbilia that they had there. They had the guitar that Jimi Hendrix played at woodstock in 1969, handwritten lyrics from Kurt Cobain, pretty cool stuff for sure.
Aside from my trip to Seattle, I made it back into Colorado late monday night. Had my first day back on the bike on Tuesday. Next week I'm finally going to get to do some real hard efforts before my first race at UNM on the 3rd of March. I'm real excited to see how I do in my first race. I've been working really hard and I'm hoping that it pays off. But we shall see after my first race. I have been glued to the TV every night since the Tour of California started, and I can't help but think that the call that the referee made the other day was a bad one. Ben Jaques-Maines should have been wearing the yellow I think, and Levi is really lucky that he was able to keep his spot. I hope that mistakes like this will just make the referees better in the future. The next stage showed that Levi was in really good form looked way more comfortable on those climbs than just about anybody. Jens Voigt was really fun to watch, went on the attack and stayed away all day for the win, and won with room to spare. Anyways, I got 10 hours of base to do this week so I better get out and start it up, thanks for checking in, more updates soon.