The Up-Swing

It is no longer fair for me to start off by commenting on how long it has been since I have last made a post. It seems that these monthly posts are now becoming the trend. A great deal has happened in the life of Greg since I last made a post, and the best part about it is that, for the most part, there has been a great deal of good!

Of the happenings of the past month the one that was not so good involves my wreck at our home crit. Sitting at the front of the break, I rounded turn 1 to sharply, my bike slid out from under me and I felt my body gliding across the pavement. Pavement is not ice, and your body is not supposed to slide across it. Standing up quickly I realized my bike was ok, but as the adrenaline wore off my head was in a good deal of pain and the bruises and cuts I picked up began to hurt. After a couple of sleepless nights and just feeling like a goldfish flushed down the toilet, I finally started to feel better and be able to ride my bike again. The next weekend was Navy race weekend, no big loss, and the weekend after that I would race bikes at duke, and post my best finish of the season, an 11th place finish at the road race. Yes.

The week before spring break which I guess would be two weeks ago now, give or take, I received a phone call from Wake Forest informing me that I had been accepted into their graduate school program of Health and Exercise Science. My elation with this call cannot be put into words and the burden that this has lifted off of my shoulders is monumental. It is nice to no longer worry that I will be living out of a box and slicing meet in the Wegmans deli for the remainder of my life. Pretty sweet.

Spring Break was cool. I have a better than that most people that went the beach which amuses me. The tan lines I have are something of which I am proud, unfortunately the general population does not find them as cool as I, but they are missing out.Anyway, over spring break I didnt go anywhere cause the clutch in my car crapped out. Not awesome at all, and I ended up paying alot of money to replace it. Hard to see a bright side in this one, other than I guess I wont need a new clutch for a while? What I did do over spring break was enjoyable though, it basically consisted of: swimming, biking, eating, watching netflix shows, AND NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN A LATE NIGHT TRIP TO WAL-MART. Be jealous.

This week I started running again. My hip is definitely on the upswing and I put together a pretty solid run on Quarterpath Thursday morning. The Mug-a-rita from the night prior was rough on the stomach for sure, but I still came in under 49 minutes, a solid run for me. Collegiate nationals are growing close and training is getting pretty intense. My swim is finally coming around now that I am getting in the water 3-4x a week. I am starting to feel less like a drowning rat and more like a goldfish with a missing fin. Improvement for sure but a long ways to go.

This season I will be representing both Honey Stinger and Bike Stop. Both of these sponsors have generously offered to support my racing career. Im excited to work with both of them and am looking forward to the season. Oh, and the weather is getting nice to. Kewl.