A Little 500 spring break

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Hello, Indiana University. Spring Break is almost here. How excited are you? Some students are going home to be with loved ones, and some, like many other college students all around America, are heading to an intoxicatingly beautiful tropical destination, with a heavy emphasis on the intoxicating. But random hook ups and five to seven day alcohol tears are not what I am looking forward to. Spring Break in Bloomington is amazing, but not much of a break.

My name is Sam Harbison, but I don’t know many people who call me that. I am either called Samwise, or some of my older teammates favorite, Boobie. I am a second year rider for the Cutters, and I must say this year has flown by. I mean it is already March and Spring Break is almost upon us.

Spring Break may be a break from classes, tests, papers, and all the other stresses that come with a full load of classes, but for my six teammates and I, it will be one of the hardest weeks of our training.

A basic day is waking up early, eating, going on a morning ride, eating, going to visit Bill Armstrong for some hard efforts, eating, ice baths, eating, bonfire, possibly eating again and sleep. Throw in a couple movies and a nap in there and that’s it.

Here are a few more little known "facts" about the Cutters.

Eric “Hazelbear” Young has a secret life as a professional wrestler. Google it. Not that big of a secret. This is the reason the Cutters hit the weights with the likes of Degeneration X, Kurt Angle, and Sting

Thomas “Toomas” Walsh is a centaur. Legs of a horse, body of a man. He also loves to spend his free time playing and listening to trombone music

Sam “Doug” Stanford loves Harry Potter. Everything thing about it. You know how trekies know cling on, and LOTR superfans speak elfish? Douglass here can speak parseltongue.

Kevin “KevDawg” Depasse is a part-time dj. He usually lays it down on the 1’s and 2’s

Eric “Skeeter” Brodell once broke a Puerto Rican guy's arm for sweat pant money

And of course I am boobie. I don’t really think I am that “hip” , but whatever.

Sam Harbison is a sophomore majoring in Statistics. He is in his second year riding for the Cutters. Cutters finished first in the 2010 race.