botto 

sage.

thechemist

this
If i didn't have a family, I would consider the same thing lol.

echappist

Not a fan of parsley, rosemary, and thyme?

rkwaki

Dude I made some awesome roast potatoes the other day:
1/8 cup of olive oil
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp of pepper
2 tbsp fresh rosemary
1 tbsp fresh garlic

Cut into cubes and bake on a cookie sheet for 40 minutes....

Yummy

jsutkeepspining

#thisthreadyall

I know a lot of guys who have gone pro while still in college. They all seem pretty happy with the idea of racing pro and getting a degree.

echappist

I'll be making gnocchi from scratch one of these days. Gnocchi with pesto

jsutkeepspining

i like gnocchi...

gsteinb

pistachio pesto, yo!

echappist

I'll bring you some when you start school
I need to give that a try. Have been using pine nuts up to now.

also didnt realize how the taste deteriorate after 3 days or so. Definitelt an "eat it now" item. This is in contrast to the jarred pesto sold at Trader Joe's, and you realize why it needs to be over the top salty

gsteinb

I make about 35 containers in late summer and freeze them. It seems to hold up.

gtrob

Drop out and goto cooking school

Wesley36

Filling up ice cube trays with pesto, then putting the frozen cubes of pesto in bags, is a great way to set oneself up for the year. Take out a cube, let it thaw while making pasta, drain pasta, throw back in pot with cube o' pesto, mix and eat.

waterrockets 

We went to Mandola's this weekend and my 11-year-old discovered gnocchi. Goodness.

Gjc985

Lets see that USA Cycling License #…. that can help with our input

grolby

It's perfectly reasonable that you think a sentence like "sometimes you need to take chances in life, and run with them without looking back," contains some actionable meaning and is the best way to look at opportunity and decisions, after all, you're 17 or 18. And I'm sorry to give you that ageist crap, really I am, because being unafraid to take risks is one of the great benefits of being so young. But the thing is, it's not really that profound to say that pursuit of opportunity requires risks. Of course it does! The hard part is accurately assessing what commitments and actions will contribute most to achieving your goals.

Basically, I don't think you actually know what "committing 100%" means in a situation like this. The OP isn't faced with a choice between opportunity A and opportunity B. The OP is faced with a situation where he has opportunity A and opportunity B (assuming, generously, that he has genuine opportunity for a professional racing career), and has the ability to maximize BOTH of them. So dropping school to focus on cycling is the exact opposite of "committing 100%." It's committing 50%. It isn't just that dropping out of school is a risk; of course it is, but so is going to college in the first place. It's that the OP is fortunate to have multiple goals to pursue that are 100% compatible; training hard enough to reach a very high level in cycling and making a solid effort in school both only can take up so much time in a week. We should all be so lucky as to have the time to train that a college student does! If school ends up not working out, fine; college isn't for everyone, especially at the age and level of maturity where they first enter it. But better to give it a solid try first.

aaronmcd

I had the least amount of free time in my life while I was in college. Granted, I was married and worked through undergrad, and paid for most of my undergrad education. I didn't have ANY free time to ride during grad school. Sometimes I didn't even have free time to sleep.

However, assuming the OP doesn't have a job, he has enough free time.

wens

Mechanical engineering, spent 15-20 hours swimming six months per year. It sucked frequently, and I bet it would be a lot harder without teammates and a coach to get on my case, but it can be done. Just plan on a lot of opportunities to get laid vanishing.

waterrockets 

Go on...

rkwaki

So it is kind of like getting married...

Gramercy

Who is paying for college? If it's your parents, stay in school and get a degree. Get good enough at biking where you can get free goodies (do they give out steep discounts to cat 3 racers or to people on your team?) and enjoy being young. Drink, get laid, make friends, etc.

waterrockets 

No no, wrong direction.

Get Laid, Vanishing

Dear Bikehouse Forums,

I never thought this would happen to me, but when I got home from work one night and changed into my bib shorts for a trainer session, I felt an erie cold chill. Then I saw her on the couch. Only parts of this mysterious woman were visible, as if she was some sort of ghost. Some of her body was visible, would momentarily vanish...

grolby

Yes, this is all assuming that the OP is a traditional college student.

And granted, that doesn't mean I'm right. I don't know this kid. I don't know what's best for him. I'm only making what I think are fairly reasonable generalizations. For whatever they're worth. Probably not much.

Hermes

Ygduf

I had nothing else to even do and I managed to drop out without you all you losers' advice.

wens

I'm going to be that guy who takes everything literally, so more like:

Dear bikehouse forums,

I never thought this would happen to me, but after a month straight of not spending more than 5 waking moments* when we weren't having sexual relations total with my gf, she told me she thought we should take a break. I totally thought that's no big deal, scoring with freshman girls at parties is like shooting fish in a barrel, but then I realized that I have to be on the bus at 6:45 saturday morning and won't get back until 8:30 saturday night, and by then I'll be too tired to do anything but lay around trying to find the motivation to cook ramen.

*This wasn't because I was getting so much action, it's because I was either eating, sleeping, training, or studying. Literally nothing else for weeks at a time.