3 week to go...

Hello all,

Greetings from the Pines Resort in sunny Indialantic. We are now just inside of three weeks of racing in Gainesville, Georgia. In our first week back after an easier recovery week, the speed and intensity of training was ramped up quite a bit, but it was something I had been looking forward to for a while. This coming week I expect much of the same, and we will most likely conclude a hard week with time controls. In conjunction with harder training I find myself getting horizontal much more often, and getting stretched out to try and recuperate for the next on water session. I have also taken up watching a lot of B-rate movies, most recently the “supernatural thriller” One Missed Call, and the non-stop gag reel National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze. Simply brilliant cinema! Not so much… but what can you do.

If you haven’t already seen it Rob Longley recently had a story out about our room at the national team camp here at the Pines. It was a really cool story; really captured what we are all about. You can easily find the article by searching Mark Oldershaw on the World Wide Web. Hmmm… that’s about the majority of any recent excitement I’ve encountered, the last episode of The Office was a fantastic revival. However, with the exception of “Milf Island”, 30 Rock was a little forced (just my opinion though), give the people what they want… Tracy Jordan. Anyway, looking forward to continuing to train really hard over the next couple of weeks, thanks for all the new C4C questions (including those from the one and only Mark Miotto), and can’t wait to be racing. It is simply awesome to be here and able to chase after a dream, I feel incredibly lucky to be a part of the camp.

Cheers, and keep it real,
Andrew

Ps. the San Diego Chargers will win at least 13 games in 08/09- you heard it here first.