The best part about New England is the snow and the worst part is also… the snow! Especially when its time to get training. Thats one of my roomates who’s a new england legend, Alec Donahue, racing for NERAC this year. Be on the look out for him. Time off has been okay because I’ve been having some things happen with my Achilles tendon since California, but it’s seems as of yesterday those pains are going away with some light stretching and easy rides, finally! It went from barely being able to walk-soreness the last day of California to no soreness, just some tingling and then from that to these weird muscle spasms and now I think today has been pretty well behaved, but I’ll say, it probably wouldn’t be if I hadn’t made my own night splints… I wanted to buy real splints, but I went to the store down town to get these socks that attach at the front of your toes and attach up by your knee and they were 43 dollars EACH! Who wants to spend 86 bucks on something you’ll use for like a week. Not me, thats why I made my own. and yes thats a loaf of bread in my hand. What else, Jon Page recently signed a contract for the euro cross team sunweb-projob. Congrat’s Jon, that is huge. Redlands started yesterday and looks like that is going to be a great race, I hear its as smoggy as it ever was from my teammates. I talked to trebon the other day, who knows whats he’s been doing, he’s the kinda guy who when you talk to him on the phone your actually doing or thinking something completely the opposite of whatever he’s talking about. Noticed Guptill is down in Chile with Colavita for his first race with them, that should be awesome, he’ll be coming back with some good form. Alright, from snowy Massachusetts, adios!