So after a ride yesterday I checked my email and saw that I had USAT message in my inbox. After reading for a few seconds I found out I was selected to be on the National team for the age-group long course worlds! This came as a HUGE surprise to me. One, I'm relatively new to triathlon (only two seasons). Two, I never really considered myself good enough to represent anyone in national/international competition. Apparently because I placed top-four in my AG (2nd and 4th) in two world qualifying events (that I didn't know were qualifiers) I was put into the national team selection pool. I was pretty juiced after finding out. Unfortunately, though, there is no way for me to compete. I have IM Florida two weeks before and I can't take off a week of school to go to Australia. If given the chance again, though, I will definetly persue this. So, hopefully next season I can unknowingly requalify and race in France in July. I'm still kind of in shock and surprised!