snowmass,and such 08.10.04 (11:55 am) Hi all, well I had a rough time in snowmass, but it wasn't all bad.  I got a couple flat tires and dropped out of the race.  The bright side is that I was riding much better than I have been lately, and hopefully it is an indicator that I have finally turned a corner in the recovery from this spring.  It was really good to see the scene again in snowmass, and it felt pretty good to see everyone.  The olympians ruled the crosscountry as you have probably seen.  I was out of there pretty quick on saturday, but I hear that Adam Craig put on quite the show in the short track on sunday pushing a 40x16 around the course, is he a long lost pilot or what? later, paco 1 Comments   I'm back 08.05.04 (9:17 am) Hello everyone, sorry for the absence, but I am back and I am going to try my hardest to stay on top of this thing.  So what's been going on, well I have had some reintegration issues since getting back.  Going from full time bike racer to part time everything has taken it's toll.  Also the change in racing has been rather interesting as well.  I went from racing in cold and wet weather on the flats mostly to hot and dry at 10,000 feet with more than enough up and down.  So for racing it hasn't been the friendliest welcome home.  On other fronts it has been great especially friends and family.  I have a new job that is really new, and has good potential to keep me pretty happy for a while, and although it is a bit bittersweet it is pretty nice to be working again at least money is comming in again.  Time is flying as usual I can't belive that I have been home for over a month. As I said racing has been rough, last night it went a little better I raced the local weekday short track, and despite some bike handling problems on my part it went pretty well.  And considering I droped out of a race this weekend after 20min it went great.  My one problem was that I didn't quite meter my efforts well enough and with three laps to go I was pretty used up.  It was actually pretty fun though, and I got to duke it out with Ben Duke for a while.  I have been following the guys progress at the cycling center pretty closely since I have been back check it out http://www.cyclingcenter.com" title="http://www.cyclingcenter.com" target="_blank"http://www.cyclingcenter.com as I have said before that program is so cool, and I really couldn't suggest a better way to make it to the pro ranks. anyway we will talk again real soon, paco   0 Comments