Connor's Journey

This last week was Training camp. The word that comes to mind  to describe the three-day camp is OUCH! Wednesday night one of my teammates came to stay at our house his name is Geoff, I quickly clicked with him and we spent hours and hours talking bikes. I have pretty much worn out every body else with my bike talk so it was really nice to have a new victim to torment with my nonstop bike talk.  Thursday started early I was up at 5:30 am. Then we rode our bikes for the next 5 hours through wind, rain, hail, and snow. It was by far the hardest bike ride I have ever done. Friday was a blast, we met this super cool guy named Mike Brown and he spent the day helping our team train and become better racer’s.  We also learned about nutrition, I’m glad my parents paid attention because I felt like the lady teaching us was speaking a whole other language? We broke up in teams and did a 71 mile race simulation. I partnered with a guy named Charlie. Charlie is also very cool, he is a total racer and knows a lot about bike racing. He did not go easy on me and I had to complete my pulls. I felt very proud of myself. My moms friend Diane was my crew person and she takes really good care of me in fact she is almost exactly like my Mom when it comes to safety. Saturday we did time trials. Last time I did a time trial I beat my Mom by 1 second, so she really had it out for me this time. My Mom kept telling me she was going to vindicate her name and beat me this time. Well it doesn’t really matter who one but I will tell you she has gotten ALOT faster? Then we finished up the day with a 40 miler around town. Saturday night we had a dinner at the Weckworths house. It was so fun but I was so pooped. All in all training camp made me super excited for RAAM. I realized I actually am pretty strong and that I am gonna do great in the race! Oh and did I tell you my teacher Mrs. Silva was so cool helping through the training camp? Her car broke down and she had to switch vehicles and catch up to her riders and she did great too. I was really happy to be surrounded by so many nice people in my life. I can’t even describe how excited I am for RAAM. I know I keep saying that but I seriously am.

Did any of you read the article in the Sacramento Bee? It was so cool. They ran a story about me and my journey to RAAM on Sunday. I was surprised at how much it made me reflect back on this year. I sometimes forget about how crazy hard it’s been. I have to send a shout out to my real best friend Rileigh though. I was accidently misquoted in saying Elliot was my best friend and I honestly do really like hanging out with Elliott a lot but Rileigh has been my best friend for as long as I can remember and no one will ever take her place, mostly because she could tell you waaayyyy to many embarrassing things about me:)

You can read the article at: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/05/02/2716377/folsom-12-year-old-with-liver.html