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One That Got Away...

Friday, 08 April 2011 03:00

2004 Minnesota Junior of the Year nominee Nicholas Vandam has been racing professionally for the last few seasons. The former Eagan-onian, who now resides in Colorado Springs, has raced at least twice thus far in 2011--25th at the ITU Pan Am Cup race in beautiful Salinas, Ecuador, and 13th at Lima (Peru) Pan Am Cup. Yesterday we visited his blog, where he discussed his 2010 season. We thought you'd like to read about one of ours who got away.

After a couple weeks of reflection, and a little time off from training, I can sit back and reflect on a successful season filled with many challenges emotionally and physically. For those of you who don Overall, what happened this past season is that I started in January and February with a couple of races in South America. They were decent, but I was still living in New York and working full time at West Point. I had orders to move at the end of February to Fort Sill, OK, where I started Officer Basic School for Air Defense Artillery. During that time I jumped into whatever I could and was pretty much racing to stay motivated to train. My theory was that as long as I had a race to train for in the near future I would be able to keep my eye on the prize. That lasted for about five months and during that time I was accepted into the Army