Well all I can say now is that it is nice to be home (Humboldt Co.) My season is more or less over and my semester at school is extremely ill-planned and very demanding consequently so I have just been squeezing in whatever I can manage with not too much plans.

There is a race weekend (sept 11/12/13) up here that is put on by a local cycling club and not USA cycling that I might participate in just to duke it out with the locals. TT/RR/Crit back to back, categories are beginner/intermerdiate/expert

Broke a chain today on sprint #2 out of a 8 sprint workout (KMC x10sl gold, only 1.5 months old)....... Had a friend take me to a the shop, and a mechanic/rider friend stayed a few min past closing for me to install a chain so I could finish my workout. He also told me to come back and pay for it another day because the register was closed.
Owner of the shop (Jen, mother-type figure for all of the collegiate team roadies) gave me a new shop kit for free when I told her that the ER cut my old kit that I was wearing when I crashed last wednesday.

"Tuesday night worlds" was as tough as ever because alot of us older and younger guys who haven't seen eachother all summer had a boxing-match of sorts over the fast 1 hr ride with 2 climbs and 1 short regroup. I averaged 180bpm for the hour (including 2 min of stop); my LTHR is 187 bpm.

Shop ride this saturday is scheduled for the famous local Butler Valley Loop. 5.5k of vertical in 55 miles with about ~4 miles of gravel and hardpack roads. Yep I'm back home alright....