Change in plans

I was struggling with figuring out how to pay for RAAM while still having enough time and energy to train for RAAM. Since I don’t buy lottery tickets, I decided to push RAAM off until 2011. I’ve taken a job with a wilderness therapy program for troubled teenagers just north of Saint George. I work 8 days and then have 6 days off. I think I should be able to stay in decent shape that way, because most of the days I am working, I will also be hiking.
In other news, I went mountain biking today with a former pro downhill mountain bike racer. I don’t care how easy someone like says they’ll go or the fact that they haven’t raced in 9 years, I wouldn’t recommend it. I could keep up in the non-technical flats and uphills, but anything downhill or technical (or horrors of horrors, both) and he was gone. The non-technical downhills I would sometime see him riding with no hands, I on the other hand had a death grip on the handlebars. I think my shoulders and hands are the most tired at this moment.