Bang Bang Bang

Tuesday morning my mom came down to Texas to visit me for a few days.

Thursday morning I’m sleeping in my bed, all of a sudden I hear Bang Bang Bang. I was half asleep when I heard the noise, I didn’t really think anything of it. The next thing I know my Mom comes in my room and says, “Garrett, wake up, there are two guys from USADA (the US Anti-Doping Association) downstairs that are here to drug test you.” I barely believe her. I look over at my clock and it shows 6:34am. I throw on some shorts and a shirt and go downstairs to greet two guys with bright smiles on their faces ready to take a urine sample from me… To say the least, I was not too enthused that on my morning to sleep in I was woken up at 6:34am to drug test. However, these guys are just doing their job and I appreciate the work they do, so I was very friendly!

It turns out these guys drove in from Houston just to drug test me…can you believe that? About 20 minutes after they arrived, they were gone. My mom had gone out walking and I was sitting at my dining room table by myself. I was wishing they had come an hour earlier so I could have at least gone to practice. Oh well, I guess this is the life of an Olympic Athlete…

The second Bang of the day was after practice in the evening. This one actually hurt… I ride my bike to practice everyday and was on my way home when I found myself in the air over my handlebars. I have absolutely no idea what happened…I just remember flying over the handlebars and in mid-air I locked in on the ground I was about to hit and yelled, “Oh #$%@.” Luckily I was wearing my helmet. I scraped up my hands and knee but otherwise walked away without serious injury.

This day had a bit too much Bang in it for me.