Feeling like a kid

This summer has been a blast so far. I can say that the racing and training has been hard, but its also been a lot of fun. When you are racing and training hard, you also have to recover hard too. The same approach applies psychologically. After you live, breathe, eat, sleep, and do everything in order to go fast on a bike, you need to hang up the bike one day out of the week and take a breather so you can go full tilt the next week.

Behold the rest day: The day you forget about your bike and do non-bike things. The most serious cyclists take this day the most seriously.

So with the weather being utterly beautiful, we went to Molten Falls to jump off cliffs into a river and enjoy the sunshine. Of course Roman took things a step further and jumped off the 70 foot bridge (3 times!!). It was high enough to leave bruises on the back of his legs.

We only jumped into the river a few times. Even though the temperature was in the mid-eighties, the river water is straight from the mountains. So non of us felt compelled to spend a lot of time in the 40 degree water.

Of course no cliff jumping trip is complete without catching snakes and tadpoles. We spent about an hour catching snakes with sticks before we left. We were able to get two gardener snakes, which are sitting in a plastic container on the front porch of the team house. Bobby and Josh also got a jar full of tadpoles that may or may not be lunch for our two gracious reptiles.