Tri-State Velo

Christopher Wilson - Tri State Velo Espoir
Cycling Center – Bio Racer Espoir
Thursday March 24, 2005 - Journal Entry One
Dear Diary,

I must apologize for my lack of dedication I have shown in filling your pages with personalized accounts of my day by day activities and experiences; It’s been too long. To you I promise to consistently update you, and allow truth and wisdom to flow through the words that I scribe to your pages.

I just remembered this isn’t a test or paper in school and that’s great! It took me 15 minutes to make up a way of starting my journal… All I want to do is not be the author of one of those monotonous journals with accounts of incredibly hard races and training rides, containing overly exaggerated excuses for failing at the over all goal (Winning) or crippling the competition at the sprint of a over blown local group ride.

I want to include anyone who is reading in what it is like to move away from home and attack your goals head on and then… find out that toilets in Belgium flush from the top with a little pole you lift out of the crown of the toiler cover… “it took a while to figure it out”… or that well… I will save more for later but you get the point and I should probably go through the formality of introductions.

My name is Chris Wilson. I am from Cape Cod, Massachusetts… I am 21 years old and for anyone wondering I am single… so if the previous info about me didn’t get you started, this isn’t a personal add. I am a cyclist, I started in triathlons in high school, I did well and spent time at the top level of Juniors Elites in the USA. Once decisions for school came I found myself going to Military College at Norwich University. I did well at military school and it was my choice to go as well as to leave. (Skipping a lot of time and bits and pieces) A year later I met Glen Murray, at University of Colorado; From Glen I was introduced to Mike Attie of Tri State Velo.

Tri State Velo was the best thing that could have happened to me. I explain by first saying that cycling is not a sport for the week of anything. As a U23 cyclist everyone needs a team, not only for the financial help but more importantly for the moral support and someone that actually believes that your training on a bike can amount to more than saddle sores and fantastic tan lines. I would not be sitting on my bed at the Cycling Center in Belgium without the support I got from Mike. The number one thing that has developed in me from my previous self at Military school 2 years ago and my college going friends back home is Maturity.

At the moment I am tasting the ingredients that are needed to make the soufflé. All the while I want to just put everything into one pot and call it “done”… but then I am pulled back and shown by those around me to add the ingredients slowly and in the perfect amounts so that in the end I really bake a top notch soufflé… and if you lost me in my analogy the soufflé is becoming a rider with the exact amount of fitness, form, maturity, strength and smarts to actually get paid to ride a bike.

I am so hungry.
Thanks Mom and Dad
Thanks Mike
Thanks Jason
Thanks Tri State Velo
Thanks Cycling Center

I am definitely not full, I have not had my first helping yet, I am just making sure to say thanks early.

I hope to keep everyone updated twice weekly.

So stay sweet like Belgium Custard and raising