Out of Oxygen

Not quite - let's make that carbon dioxide. I got my first experience racing in the area, and it did not go as planned. I hadn't been able to ride in the middle of the day until this past weekend, and it makes a huge difference. The humidity could kill someone, I swear. And if it's not the humidity it's the rain- check out these photos. Let me point out that these are "before" and "after" shots. Originally, I got the camera out to take a picture of the downed tree on the other side of the courtyard. About five minutes later we looked out the window again, and there was one down right in front of our door. This is pretty much what it takes for me to make an evening workout into an indoor trainer session, but tonight I didn't have a choice. These pictures were taken after my ride, the one that I almost did outside because it wasn't really raining that hard. I guess the Colorado motto doesn't apply here, you know "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes." Around here, five minutes will just topple another tree. I'd like to point out that these trees had to have been around for awhile, because no one plants anything near that big - and it was the wind that took them out, not the lightening.Yesterday was my day off after racing this weekend, and I headed over to Hershey Park with my roommate Elise. We had a great time, hitting as many rollercoasters in 3 hours as you can on a normal Sunday.