I know, I know, I'm late--
As an IDS staffer of three years, a one-semester editor and first-time Little 500 rider, I was asked by our visual and multimedia editor, James Brosher, to blog my rookie experience from the track. Well, our experienced staff rider Zach Osterman has been blogging for days now and I'm just getting on the bandwagon . But it's definitely in keeping with team TAU TAU TAU's style that I'm getting into this blogging game a bit late. Heck, we didn't even form a team until two days before we had to register!
Tri-TAU consists of three riders: Chelsea Merta, current City/State editor, Rachel Fullmer, former Opinion editor, and myself, Merta's predecessor at the City/State desk. We tried our best to recruit other IDS staff women, but those doubters didn't believe you can transform into an athlete for six weeks, even if your dinners come out of a vending machine while on deadline after your fourth venti mocha latte on 3 hours of sleep. But the ladies of Tri-TAU are doing our best and we're proud to say we qualified at 28th on the board with a time of 3:20:44. And we only faulted once!
I was the only Tri-TAU rider to participate in ITT's (which I got to late and missed my first heat, by the way). My heat included riders from, I believe, Cycldelics and Alpha Phi...maybe Athena. **I'm not entirely sure this is correct because, as a rookie, I was focused only on not causing a wreck on the track and not getting lapped. The good news is: I didn't cause an accident and I didn't get lapped! My time was 3:09, which we hope to get down to a semi-respectable three minutes in the next two weeks.
A note on our team name: It's important to establish that Team TAU TAU TAU is in no way officially linked to the Indiana Daily Student. We receive no sponsorship, nor direct affiliation. We're just a trio 'a staffers spending the next two weeks pretending to be athletes so that we can say "We are part of the reason everyone enjoys this week!"
Team TAU TAU TAU: We'd have to steal it to win it.
