Crazy ride

It has been a pretty solid training week, next week is going to be even more intense but I am pretty excited about  it. I am looking forward to racing again. I have a pretty funny story about my ride with Scott on Tuesday, well now it's funny:
Scott and I started our ride off in the rain then it turned out to be a beautiful day. During the ride Scott had intervals so he would do them then turn around and meet back up with me. Well... after the first one he said this road is going to end turn left at the light and I said ok no worries see you in a bit. The road didn't actually end it just gradually turned into the 405.. YIKES! After I realized I was on the freeway I turned around and got off at the first exit and tried to find my way back to where Scott was waiting for me. About ten minutes later he called me and was like where are you!? I told him and we couldn't figure out exactly how to get back where I was so I told him just to go on with his ride and send me his address and I will just use mapquest to get back to his house and see him when he gets back. Easier said then done my friend! Mapquest on my phone did NOT work out as well as I thought it would. I pulled out my phone to look at the time and realized that I had dropped my debit card one of the times I had pulled it out before, so I went back to go see if I could find it; no luck. There was nothing I could do about it so I went to Lewis and Clark my way back to Scott's house. Not being from around that area and have only ridden there a few times made it kind of difficult to get back. I decided to just turn on random roads that looked familiar and hopefully I would make it back, surprisingly it WORKED! Our Panera sandwiches where well deserved after that day! I called into my bank and told them what happened and they told me that someone had already found it and called it in to cancel it. Which was weird because my own mother tried to call in to cancel it but they wouldn't let her.. hmm? All in all I got pretty lucky!

Berlin

So, I had a random trip to Berlin this past week. Ian and Kit were racing in the Berlin six day in Germany and I have wanted to watch a six day and wanted to see them race so I put together a quick trip to Berlin. I left on Wednesday January 27th after classes and came back Sunday January 31st early in the morning. My dad met me there with 24 hours of notice that I was leaving. I called him and asked if he wanted to go and at first he thought I was joking and after I finally convinced him I was being serious he said, "Sure why the hell not, I've always wanted to go there." Off we were to Germany to watch amazing bike racing and eat schnitzels!

We had a great time, we stayed in a hostel across the way from the track and walking distance to the train and bus stations. We had all different kinds of food, including pepperoni pizza which included cheese and peperchini peppers.. and NO pepperonis. I even learned a few words in German: Druken, auf, Danka, and mit. Meaning: push, open, thanks, and with. LOL! The racing was awesome, I have never seen so many people so enthused to watch bike racing. The boys did a great job and ended up 8th in the Omnium!