So, it’s October 6^th, and I’m pretty sure the last time I posted on this blog was some time in September. I’m hoping this won’t be quite the infrequency at which I will post in the future, but I have a feeling that anyone who reads this might not be hearing from me as much as you did over the summer.

            School does make things a bit more complicated—I’ve been working on a paper for the last few days, and before that, it was a long article for the newspaper ( orient.bowdoin.edu—if anyone wants to hire me as a reporter when I graduate, I’m game, as I don’t think I’m going to be working as an investment banker any time soon). The way I’ve come to view college is that it comes in spurts—I’ll be on go for a week, maybe two, but then eventually things have to relax at a certain point.

            Training with the Bowdoin team over the past few weeks has been excellent. We’ve had a really good group coming out to optional captain’s practices, including a whole bunch of new freshman (see previous post), and they’re super motivated—the culture of the team has really shifted for the month of September from “we practice if we feel like it” to “we practice 6 days a week, and are super serious about it.” One of our freshman has been rollerskiing with us despite a broken wrist.

            Some highlights of the past few weeks: a sweet uphill time trial at Morse Mountain, which has a cool trail system that ends at a beach; a lot of rainy rollerskiing; and actually, that’s about all I can think of. Other than that, training has been pretty conventional—we’ve been sticking to the plan, and that’s been fine.

            A bunch of us are heading up to the Sugarloaf area this weekend for the Bowdoin team’s fall break camp. We’re planning on doing the Sugarloaf Uphill Climb on Sunday, a sweet hike in the Bigelow range on Monday, and a totally rad rollerski on one of the nicest, most secluded roads in Maine, the Long Falls Dam road.

           As for the poison ivy in the title–I got that after a lab I was doing for one of my ecology classes (see photos below–we went to an island in the middle of the Bay of no-Fundy). It really, really sucks.

           As a wise man once said, “keep ‘em pointed straight ahead!”

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