Summer's awesome, and the 50 race mark!

Summer's great! All there is to do, is the occasional beer vending job to pay the bills, hang out with friends, and ride my bike!
I did the Turin ride for the first time last night. Even though I've been racing for about a year now, I've only done maybe one or two official group rides, and definitely nothing as agressive as this one. Sure was a good time. I guess I didn't realize it'd be so much like a race (which was a totally awesome thing by the way). The only problem I had with it, was I kept wanting to take some pulls or throw some attacks off the front, but I sorta had no clue where we were going, so I'd go with other people's moves, instead of putting out my own. I guess that's what next time's for, eh?
Also, I came in halfway through the ride, cause I was late. Apparently, 1 hour is not enough time to get from Bridgeport to Evanston. But back to what I said at the start of the post about this being summer, and me having all the time in the world, that's not a problem at all! I'll just leave a half an hour earlier next time.

On another pretty cool note, I was checking over my race resume, and factoring in everything including matteson training crits, I just hit the 50 race mark! (I suppose if you wanna get thecnical and only look at officially sanctioned races I'd only be at 45, but whatever) Looking back at my brief "amature career", I'd say I'm pretty happy with how things went. Sure, I don't have the progress of someone like my superhuman collegiate team mate Ryan Freund, who's only been racing a year, and now nearly lapping the field in 1/2's races...
But I've got a few wins, a handful of podium placings, a steady progression up the category ranks, and my pulse still races whenever I think about the last 200 meters of a race. So like I said--nothing exactly amazing, but I'm pretty happy with it. Perhaps I should take advantage of all my free time now and start doing more than my average 8-10 hours per week of training... Who knows what could happen?