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I know some people don't like shooting Team Pursuit, the last Spring Series event before the main Little 500 race. But, because I've never shot what most photographers consider a more exciting event (Miss-N-Out) and because this one has at least more interaction during the contest than that between riders exchanging bikes (Quals), I'm okay with shooting it.

To be honest, I like it a lot. Like what a rider said, the event shows how a team works together. (Or, as some of the following photos show, how one moment can wreck that work.)

Graduate student and former Kappa Alpha Theta rider Kristen Metherd yells times at her team during Little 500 Team Pursuit on Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. (Alex Farris | Indiana Daily Student)

Two weeks ago, my nearly four-year-old computer's hard drive flopped its last operation and left this world, taking a third of this semester's data with it. While getting a new hard drive and resetting my digital life, a lot of things happened. Assignments were taken, photo stories were scrapped and, in something that is so much more tragic than my petty problems, two photojournalists died in Libya.

In the interests of keeping the blog consistent, opening up more photos to public scrutiny and (let's be honest) show people my Little 500 photos like everyone else, I'll be using the next few entries to catch up, in slight reverse chronological order. We'll start with everyone's favorite event (no, seriously, it's awesome), the Little 500. I was posted outside the track for the women's race, and I followed Sigma Chi from the infield for the men's race. (Technically, I was the floater, but I put a transmitting mic on the coach, Tom Schwoegler, so I stayed around the team for a while so I could get enough material for a 17-minute podcast of the race.)

Ride On coach Isaac Simonelli takes the tarp off of his team’s bikes before the women’s Little 500 on Friday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The IU Student Foundation put out the bikes early in the morning, but because of the pre-race rain, tarps were put out later. (Alex Farris | Indiana Daily Student)

Apparently, I matched form with content by accident today. ITTs are very solitary events (the clock cannot reasonably be called company), and my favorite photos from today have a lot of dead space that isolates the subjects. M'kay. (By the way, Ryan Dorgan does some good work with Little 5. You should check out the photos he takes for Blueline, and if you're willing to go through 19 photos, his post on Holi is quite colorful.)

Also, for an explanation of why there wasn't much activity here last week, read this, this, this and this. Hopefully, I did her justice in that last article.

Junior IU Student Foundation gunner Megan Rippey fires the gun to start heat 27 during Little 500 Individual Time Trials on Wednesday at Bill Armstrong Stadium at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. (Alex Farris | Indiana Daily Student)