Thats the phrase of the week for me. Whenever someone tries to speak to me in French, or I am getting in trouble with PH, I yell as boldley as I can "Je Suis AMERICAN!" and usually everyone starts laughing and I am off the hook. Works like a charm.... It means "I am an American" in case you couldn't figure that out.

The trip is going by too fast. I wish I had more time to spend here. From Tuesday to Saturday last week I rode 52.5 miles accordording to my computer. Thats 52.5 miles of track riding working skills, not sprints or recovery rides. Crazy! This week we are doing more physical training in the morning but still emphasising the skills in the afternoon. I am finally completely over the jet-lag and recovered from last weeks marathon skills session so everything is feeling good.

The Germans are gone, which is sad because they spoke English and were fun to ride with. This week we have some Swiss kids, but all they speak is French so I am working on my French tongue but so far am unsuccessful.

Arnaud Dubois is living here so I have had the chance to ride with him the last few days. He has incredible manualing skills and when I say incredible, I mean I havent seen anyone since Mario Soto manual like him at full speed. Yesterday he did this crazy pull-manual to jump table to land manual flat then held it all the way through the rhythm (6 rollers) at full speed. My jaw was on the floor, the kid has talent.

I totally spaced Lake Perris, I thought it was next month or something so unfortunately I will be missing it. Bummer because I wanted to put some smack down on a certain rider whose dad thinks she is "dominating" America. I guess its left up to my teammate, "the beast."

Alright, thats all for now. Gotta roll...