Because when your writing an essay you always find something else to do

Here are a few pics from the past year:

Mount Hood: My first big stage race
Giro di SF
Copperopolis
Cat's Hill
Racing with Lance at Nevada City

Once again, its been a long time...

A lot has happened and I have not written on here for a long time, so here goes nothing.

I am sitting in the North Reading Room at UC Berkeley, there is a protest going on outside about the fee increases which have been approved yesterday by the board to increase our fees 32% putting the tuition over $10,000 for the first time in history of UC, sweet huh. Well yea, the protest is not really accomplishing very much though, they aren't very organized. I think that it sucks but reading over the issues I tend to side with the regent in that I think that they are doing the best that they can and this is the answer in order to uphold the system. It isn't the regents fault, basically california is in shambles and we have to deal with it. awesome huh...so hopefully I can afford to keep going to school here.

On to the brighter side of things...

I accomplished my goal for last year and got my upgrade to a category 1 cyclist. Now the only next step is to make it professional.

Also, after having some great support and a good year with Lombardi Sports I have now joined a new team, California Giant. I think that this is a good step to be able to do some more NRC races and get some experience racing with a bigger team. I am very excited.

One of the most fun things that I have done this year is hike half-dome. It was an awesome experience. It was the first time I had ever been to Yosemite and it was definitely one of the best places I have ever been. Just opening my window as I drove into the park it smelled like heaven. The hike was brutal, but we killed it and it only took about 5 hours roundtrip. Here are some pictures:

These crazy fools sat on the edge with feet hanging over

Coach

The Stairs

So on other goings on, the cal football team is having an interesting year. The Pac-10 has been a crazy conference, in which no team has really dominated. Cal got destroyed by Oregon and USC, but have played some good games the rest of the year, especially last week against Arizona, which was one of the best games that I have been to. We are now back in the rankings at #25. On saturday we go to Stanford, a game that I will be going to and we will win.

Also, Cal basketball is off to a good start and they play today at Madison Square Gardens - you know that really famous court in New York. Well they are playing Syracuse at 4pm and hopefully I can watch it if I find a TV and if I finish this essay that I should be writing right now. If they win then they will play North Carolina tomorrow ( I think) so that would be an awesome game as North Carolina is always one of the best college basketball teams.

Also, today Tim Lincecum won his second straight Cy Young award, the one good thing to come out of another miserable season for the Giants.

The 49ers won their game last week...

And my newest team that I have become a fan of is in a sport that I just started watching, soccer, and my team is Chelsea, since my sister is over in England, and they are in first place and beat ManU, their biggest rival a few weeks ago.

So there is my sports update...

Im not going to promise that I write any more often than I usually do, but it could happen,

Tyler