frozen fundra

We had a nice ride on Saturday. Me, Mel, Trevor, Bernie, JohnH, and Tim, most of us on singlespeed's. This was Melanie's first time riding the SS since she was pregnant with Gavin. Fun crew! Bernie was on his new Seven 29er SS and doing it justice with some skillful riding on the slick trails.

The trails were nice. Mostly it was either hard packed snow or frozen dirt.



Nice benchcut on the Ridge Trail.



There's nothing like a snow ride to produce the gigglewatts. The scenery isn't bad either.





The best part of the whole situation was that we got the ride in during nap time and the kids slept the entire time we were out. I wonder if anyone has written a book about time management for cyclists with kids? hmmmmm

tough sledding

Wednesday and Thursday I rode dawn patrol. Hitting the trails before work makes waking up at 4:50am amazingly attractive. The legs were not so good each day, but perhaps not having anything to eat is to blame. Though I was moving slow I was still very happy to be out in the woods on my bike.

Both rides were fun. Good company, conversation, trash talk, and even a few laughs courtesy of W going for a swim in an icy creek...the same creek that I dunked it in last month.

The snow hit yesterday. Unfortunately, it was a wet snow and the temperatures stayed right around freezing so conditions for a snow ride were (and remain) decidedly sub-optimal. I'm hoping for good conditions Sunday morning when things should be frozen solid. Hopefully, it will be frozen snow and not a layer of ice. We'll see. Low tire pressure and Advil will likely be the themes of the day.

Yesterday, I took advantage of the weather to slide out of work early so that Thor and I could play in the snow. It was so much fun. I felt like a little kid and he IS a little kid so we did all the cool things that little kids do in the snow. Sledding, rolling giant snow boulders, snowball fight, snow angels, learning to eat only the non-yellow snow, and even some shoveling.

Crosstube!

This is cool.

Get your 'cross video fix at Crosstube.

More Million Man Race video

2006 Cyclocross Nationals 35+ B



Thanks to Jeff Anderson for the footage

35+ B video

Someone posted this video on YouTube.

It's from the 35+ B race (Million Man Race) on Sunday at Cyclocross Nationals.

This was on the roller-coaster section of the bowl about two-third's of the way through the first lap.

I'm in 4th place at the time going all out to escape the carnage that is inevitable when there are 196 riders in a 'cross race.

Grote Prijs Race Video

Race.cx has video of the entire Grote Prijs Cyclocross race up on their site. Those mofo's are faaaaast!

With the proliferation of youtube, google video, etc. we're going to see a lot more race video from races in the US and Euro-land this season. Word.

Check it out here.

Yogurt

A race report from the weekend is on the way. Until then here's Thor eating yogurt.