Thursday, March 3, 2011

New Chapter

As my mentor and second dad, Richard Lamb has always said to me "you are turning the page" in my book of life. This means I have accomplished a goal, make improvements, or just in fact move on to a new thing in life.
Currently my new thing is tandem and I am going to Italy in a few days to be the pilot for Carrie at the Paralympic World Championships. Carrie is visually impaired, so obviously she can not ride a bike herself.. so that's where I come in!
I basically ride a bike like normal except I have a little extra weight behind, but the good thing about having another person means we get to go faster!! I call her our motor! hehe
We are a new partnership so we are still working on getting our kinks out but we have improved so much since the beginning. We have dropped like 3 seconds off our standing start lap in less than a month, we can only keep getting better from here.
We have had about 3 training camps here in Los Angeles where the whole team comes and trains for a few days at the ADT Velodrome. The training is awesome, the team is awesome, and we all have so much fun together on and off the bike.
Worlds is on March 12-13 so I will follow on how the experience was and how the racing went!
Here is the website on the event: Click Here

Carrie and I during a training session

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Very cool Shelby!