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what a weekend, I was going non-stop. It all started on friday night, Cathy and I went to the Salina cafe with Michelle and Steve. The cafe is really cool, basically just a large dining room where a woman does a four course family style meal every two weeks, nothing fancy just good down home cooking. We worked our way through a couple bottles of wine, and had a really good time, some great stories were passed around.
So the training started Saturday morning up at 6:30 to get to golden gate state park for boulder racing's mines madness mountain bike race. With no warm up, except for raising the BR banner. It was such a good time. Started out with a good amount of smack talking with one of my co-workers, I never really rode with the front guys but I had a blast. Although a really hard crash in the first third of the race put a bit of a damper on it. The course it self was really cool, a super mix of fast colorado singletrack and eastcoast style rocks and roots. stuff that you really had to get in a groove on to ride fast. Hands down the best race that I have done in colorado. And the vibe at the race was awesome; it was mainly collegiate kids and super grassroots, a bunch of mountain bikers to do a great race on great trails. Once again Boulder Racing does it again.
Sunday
Finally, FINALLY we got to ride with Ben and Amber, it seems that whenever we try hang out we have to deal with scheduling conflicts. Ben travels a lot for work and Amber is a student /vet so it always seems like someone has plans. All four of us finally got together for a great ride on Kenosha pass. The weather and ride were great although we missed the leaves by a week and there was a fair amount of mud to contend with. The views were epic and the ride was really fun. Cath scared the crap out of me riding bridges; she had a good crash too. No serious injuries just some battle wounds. I had the chance to ride Ben's maverick for a good 45min, it is a really cool bike, but the fork was the one thing that really impressed me, 3.5 lb 6 inch travel fork, that you can climb up hill with, pretty awesome. It was a great day; it is too bad that we can't do it more often.
hey boulder guys TDD is coming up in less than 4 days, see http://www.offcamber.com" title="http://www.offcamber.com" target="_blank"http://www.offcamber.com hope everyone has been training. Boulder Racing has scheduled their first cross race for the day after, that should be fun- yea right.
FYI- last year I witnessed some mope try to beat down one of the pilots because of a ghost riding incident down 9th st, the ghost bike knocked his girlfriend off her bike. They shouldn't have been there in the first place, people like that are not invited. Listen up! If you don't want to get hurt at TDD, then be careful. Realize there is a good chance of loosing some skin or breaking an arm. If you get hurt and are pissed about it then you shouldn't be there so DON'T COME!
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