Mark's Blog

Hello, I am excited that there is only 5 weeks left to school.  That day is finally coming and I can’t wait.  I have a pretty boring couple of weeks coming up.  The newspaper is slowing down on campus and there aren’t that many assignments lately.

I have been contemplating going to Platteville on April 18th for the time trial that they are hosting.  I love the course but I don’t want to drive down myself.  The course itself will challenge me because of all the sustained climbing that they have in the course.  I have been ramping up the intensity of the training the last couple of days.  All I can say is that I don’t like doing the speed work for the first couple of times because the pain sucks.  What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?

On the personally photography front, I have been shooting very little lately because everything else is taking over all of my time.  I do have some new stuff that I am happy with.

Last night was a good night, I got my film developed and am now ready to print some 8×10 and 11×14 for my independent study.  I really don’t like the dark room because of the amount of time, it is going to take me the rest of the day to bump out 6 prints plus my contact sheets.  It is nice to have the three roll tanks here for developing film, I could do six rolls of film at once instead of going back and forth 3 times with the 2 roll tanks.

After that I got that done it was off to the team meeting.  I thought that it was interesting and did learn some stuff about the team.  I hope that the group ride is on Wednesday this year so I can do all three in the week.  Brian Matter showed up and gave a speech about his last season, it is awesome that he made it to the world cup and finished on the lead lap.  I couldn’t imagine 60,000 people lining a course and cheering.

Here Shawn is explaining how the jersey sizing will go.

Here is another shot of what Shawn is doing in the front, TRYING to explain what is going on this season.

Here is the world cup competitor from Sheboygan, Brian Matter.

Brian explaining how his season went last year and answering any questions that were asked.

Jason explaining what the new bags will look like, depending on which model we go with.

I can’t wait for the new season to start, next week looks promising on the temp side.  I think that I will be out there next week plugging along to get some miles in before the first couple of road races start, I will hopefully compete in 1 or 2 races before the mountain bike season starts.  Now it is off to the dark room to print my 6 prints for after spring break.

Later