spring bizzle

back from the fantastic NGA (no girls allowed) spring break 07 camping trip. Three worries over spring break, all associated with beer bike: 1) I would lose a lot of weight and thus be slower. 2) I would not be getting biking workouts, and thus be slower. 3) I would be slow.

So I got back from the trip on Wednesday night. Thursday I spent some time at the gym, and two of my three fears so far have been assauged. I have not lost a lot of strength in my legs because of spring break, and in fact I think that all the turbo-mountain-climbing with heavy packs on has made me stronger rather than weaker. We really booked it on this trip. Second, I weighed in at 161 lbs, which is heavier than I have been in a long time, which is really exciting because I have been losing any fat that I happened to have on my body so all the weight gain is in my muscles, specifically in my legs. Hooray! I am finally getting bigger.

However, I proceeded to be extremely sore after my stint in the gym and had to spend all of yesterday recovering my hamstrings from a workout that they apparently were not ready for. The quads are fine, and they are the muscle that really matters the most, but it was still pretty annoying being this sore. I'm going biking today, we'll see how it goes. There's not a lot of time until beer bike, and I have a lot of speed to gain if I'm going to be good enough.

I wait in eager anticipation to see if my summer is going to be simple or really complicated - I applied for three summer research positions, and I am really worried that I am not going to get any of them (they are really competitive, although my resume is extremely good) and as a result am going to be poor and without anything interesting to do in physics over the summer. I applied to places that have laser cooling, which I want to get good at. Hopefully, Washington State lets me in and I can make six grand, as well as live in a really cool city and save money for my trip to China after I graduate.

I'm worried.

Off to bike