Hail Hail Old Man Winter is Back

Ok not Winter but why is the ground all white? And why is my siding, roof, cars and hastas all toast? Golf Ball size no lie. Makes good ice in the drinks... Watch the video!!

Buck #4

Although tornado sirens we're blaring at 5:30pm Pat remained calm taking in blackberry, team member, and eye to the sky data points. The thunder cell passed and not much rain fell. The team and racers said let's race, and that's what we did!!! Only a few rain drops on racers. The kids race afterward was a rain fest. Pat stood out there and cheered them on!! After awards I went up and personally thanked Pat for the event and supporting the kids race in the rain.

The race from MPOV: With an hour of hill work earlier in the day on the legs, still had a good race. 29'er SS is so fun, just can't shut up about it! Off the start I was leading up the hill. It was quite odd as it took a while for Brendan, Chris and finally Ben to catch up. Once they hit the woods I hammered hard to stay with them. Scott was behind looking to bridge. Up on water tower climb they pulled away. My goal was to not let Scott catch me, he never did. I did catch Chris when his bike had string clogging the gears, he removed. Chris and I went back and forth for last three laps. I think he was toying with me. On the last water tower climb he rocketed, never caught him and finished 30 seconds behind him in 4th. Here's the prelim results. Check the penn site too as last week they posted series to date results....stay tuned on that!

3 2 1 Blast-Off !!!

Duncan is a teenager!! Lot's and lots going on this holiday weekend..... With just a 2 hour window Saturday decided to invite family to go biking instead of just my selfesh bad self. Duncan and his litle bro took me up on the offer. We biked the legion single track way to wirth paved path then 55 to Theo loop start. We did a full Theo loop. Leo, the little bro is the spinner. He had no problem, went over every plank and log roll out there with cement curb the only exception. Too bad Alta and Mom didn't join. Sunday I hooked up with Bianchi and a Grand Performance gang of 4, 75 miles later I all good. Monday, it's D-days B-day. It was clean the house, b-day party and below......run run run "where is it"..... good times. 4 with no loss.

Buck #3

My 29'er SS rocks, same misfit psycles ss bike as last year. Anyway, nice job all ! Results in picture, I see results on Penn site now too. The Race from MPOV: Straight off scary start Sandbox and Sieben started boxing me in, somehow escaped. Then there was a wild pedaling guy in a white-ish jersey(h-wood team?). Sam & I we're caught behind watching as he stood throwing bike from left to right pedaling for the tour win. Into the woods he faultered causing Sam and I to slow. The reason I think he was h-wood team is because he pushed Sam as he got going again. Must have known each other? Sam just said, thanks, mellow-like what ever. After wild guy went OTB on log we never saw him again. I chased hard after Sam and intern lead me nearer to the lead group. Sam passed Luke. At the top of the water tower climb, I saw all-of'em go into da woods, then fell off pace. From there it was un-eventful until Dave O finally caught & passed on water tower climb, lap 4. I was able to coast in from there as no one was too close behind. The single speed was fun as all get out and didn't slow me down until perhaps later in the race.....til next time.

Cable O.R.Classic Results

Bummer I couldn't make it! I found 2008 results on-line. Go here then
look down on page for Overall, Age and/or Division options.
<http://www.itiming.com/> Looking forward to the next race.

Buck #2

Basically same story. Buck is a blast for everyone all ages. Course is less dusty than last year & fun to hammer through. Great lung buster training. My Race Recap: behind lead group into woods in good position but couldn't keep pace, top group still eludes me, darn it!! A second group caught me by lap 3 then began to gap them (John S, Jesse R, Jason W & Dave O). Then a stick in rear wheel caused me to totally dismount to remove. Still in lead of group gapped’em a few more times to be thwarted by traffic each time. Wenk passed on latter traverse. I held close to his wheel, in the end both Jason & Dave got me by a few feet in final sprint. That’s ok last few races I had the end burst. 10th of 59 Advanced. See you next week!!

MNSCS#1

Great day for a race! Bummer family opted out. Mom was way busy at flower shop all week. The night before race we attended a house party, friends and kiddo's. The kid's and Ma let off some stress. We arrived home past 11:30pm. Needless to say late night combined with rain and Duncan with a cold...no fam, just me at mnscs#1. YET, my Dad raced Citizen and did quite well!! He really wanted revenge on his grandson, it appears he took it out on the competition. He passed many and finished ahead of 14 peeps, medaled with a second in age. Way to go Grey Squirrel!! With warm up distraction my starting position, 3rd row. With 15 in each row it was NOT a normal start for me. I was trapped and couldn't do my normal attack. My position was 25th or so around water tower. Finally after start finish area recovery was good and I hammered hard passing 8+ before single track, including an bummer crash between Jay and Joel. Wadup w/dat?

I was soon in better position charging a pack led by hwood. I caught and passed a few. Hey Tri did i look good on a bike like that? Many comments about my pretty bike.....all good, all funny. Anyway I went back and forth with Matt Kurke as we chased hwood.

By lap 4 Matt had passed and I couldn't quite hang. A pack of at least 7, with Jan leading, was charging hard to catch me. Late in lap 4 after a sketch of sorts they caught me. I managed to hold them off and gap them a little in the last woods. I was able to hold all but Jan through start finish and back into the single track for lap 5.

All of lap 5 Jan and I battled, was it 4 or 6 total passes? The pack was right there waiting for us to pop. A very hard effort got me into the last woods ahead of the pack again. Finish in mind, plan was to muster enough strength & lead pack to the finish. That last bit of pavement & finish stretch is long after 5 laps!! I gave it, led the whole pack in for 3rd in age, 13th of 45 overall. Way faster than last year....... My pic from skinnyski. My Pops from Dana. Grizzly has some up, also new picture links on mnscs site. See link on right side of page. Later..