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Can you believe it? After going to going to (mostly cyclocross) races every weekend for the past 6 weeks or so, Ryan and I are actually not going anywhere this weekend.

Ok, so I was mildly tempted to go to Hot Springs for a Sunday MTB race…

…but I’m not feeling another road trip right now when we’re about to head over to the cabin in Mountain View, AR for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I’m really looking forward to the trip.
In general, I’m pretty ready for this semester of school to be over so I can get into the meat of my off-season training. I plan on swapping my SRM over to my CX bike and taking it and my MTB over to the cabin and just staying there for most of XMas break (mid Dec-Jan). With those two bikes, I should be able to ride anywhere I please (paved road, gravel road, trail, etc). The goal is to build up to all-day MTB rides by the time the Spring semester starts up next year. This should be a huge step in readying myself for NUE and other races that start in the spring.

Other goings-on in life:

-I’ve got all the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s making life somewhat miserable every time it’s cloudy for a couple days or more. I’m thinking about visiting a tanning salon on cloudy days. If I do, I’ll probably wear my team kit so I can maintain my tan lines all winter ;)

-Ryan and I are getting married on December 12th! Much to the dismay of his family, we’re not having an extravagant ceremony- the mayor of Germantown is going to marry us at my parents’ house, then we’re going to have a casual party. For some reason, they’re really troubled by this idea, as well as the idea that we haven’t registered for a bunch of crap at a department store. I told him we should have eloped…
…but I guess it beats having in-laws that are outlaws, right?

So that’s everything interesting in the life of Andrea right now. If you DO wish to send a wedding present, we need bike parts, and I’ve got a paypal account…