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Jun 23, 2008

Camp

Do to the amount of stuff that went on at camp I'm going to make an outline of what I remembered


Sunday the 8th of June
  • Got there
  • had introduction
  • made friends
  • went to bed
Monday the 9th of june
  • woke up at 5:50 and took shower
  • ate breakfast
  • got ready to do the first ride
  • the first time we rode we went to a parking lot and did bike handling drills. then we got partners and did bumping drills. this is how I learned to shoulder/ headbutt and pick a water bottle off of the ground.  I also crashed twice in the grass and dented my frame for the first time.
  • came back took and another shower then ate lunch
  • rested for an hour then got ready for a 30 mile group ride
  • came back showered again (wow) then ate dinner
  • had a two hour class
  • whet to bed
Tuesday the 10th of June, This was the most important days because we where doing to testing to figure out our potential
  • Woke up @ 7 ate break fast and got ready for the first computrainer test. we where doing two tests, a 1.5 mile TT and a 5 mile TT each at a 5% grade to find our Watts/Kg
  • Did my first test and did really good, set new 5 min power I did mine in around 5 min 20 seconds.
  • went back and rested then after 1.5 hours did the 5 miler. Did really well and had the fastest time for my heat of 5 riders
  • came back rested
  • when to two hour class.
  • went to bed
Wednesday the 11th of June, we did out door timetrials and a group ride. these TTs determined who made the Labitibi and the Idaho teams.
  • Woke up, ate
  • got ready to ride then went on 20 mile ride to the start of the TT course
  • first and second TT did good
  • third did extremely good
  • rode to picnic
  • did 40 miles back. I pissed off alot of people in that cross wind :)
  • came back, cleaned up. at dinner
  • when to two hour class. bed
thursday the 12th of June
  • Woke up
  • ate breakfast
  • did bike handling tests and had fun
  • ate lunch
  • did another group ride
  • ate dinner
  • when to two hour class and people where told if the made the teams. I made the Idaho team
  • stayed up for an extra hour helping people pack up bikes for plane
Friday the 13th of June
  • woke up, ate
  • when on group ride and did sprint drills came back got ready to go. said goodbye to all the friends I made then took a plane home.
Special thanks to all the coaches at the camp that helped with all us kids