I made it to Sea Otter and back alive! Whew! What a weekend. It was hot and sunny and the weather was awesome. Everyone had burnt noses and foreheads and sunglass tans. Not bad when everyone was expecting another monsoon!
There was a Race for Tara booth (www.racefortara.com) that Thayne and Brian Bolin, Daniel and Kim Cress, Mike Stewart, Tiffany Brown, Giant Bicycles, and Phil and Renee Anderson all had a part in and I really would like to thank them all again for their tireless efforts and wanting to help raise money.
I got a chance to watch some of my friends racing Dual Slalom and also chat with them throughout the weekend. Congrats again to Moseley on winning the first World Cup of the season and on her 30th bday no less. And nice job to Rando who finished 3rd in the slalom and 8th in the DH against a stacked group of guys!
I headed back to Vancouver after Monterey to spend a bit more time with Els and now I'm back in Cali again. I flew in today and I leave tomorrow for a training camp at the OTC down in San Diego. I'll be putting in the miles with I'm assuming some top paralympic atheletes so I guess we'll see how I stack up. Aaron was invited too so we should have a pretty good time down there. The days look somewhat long with a time trial most days and then another ride in the afternoon, but we'll see how it goes. I'm not too stressed. Probably because I don't know what to expect!
I'll try to write more tomorrow once I get there. Also, thank you to all of you that have written. I know that once again I have fallen quite aways behind in answering them, but please don't take it personally. Besides traveling as much as I have I have also been having a bit of computer problems unfortunately. Ugh!
Cheers!
tara
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