Fourth of July and the days surrounding!

When is the rain ever going to stop? Sounds like a trite question no? Well, it momentarily has let up, and gave us one other day since last week's race. Monday, I hit the road for Bikes-Unlimited Ice Cream Social Ride. Fun time, but I don't advise taking a 20 minute break in a ride and having a giant Strawberry Shortcake if you want to see what HR you can maintain on a roadie!!

Tuesday thru Friday, didn't even look at a bike. Rained for large parts of every day. Did make it up to Hawley for one last Thursday night Session with T. McCrumm.

Saturday, Happy Birthday USA! To celebrate a dozen or so locals met at Hawley to see how much we could ride before we ran out of energy or time. The answer, about 20 Miles of Single Track and a couple miles of fire roads just to keep us sane! Took nearly 4 hours, moving time about 3:30. Awesome group and a great ride that was much dryer than we expected.

Sunday: Domnarski's Farm Root66 Race. What a course. If I were to build a course for racing, it would be much like this. Not a break anywhere, tough climbs, rocketing descents, nice tight singletrack. The only thing I would change would be to construct about 100 yards of bog bridges to get across the muddy sections. As is, it is a great race, but really tough on the equipment.

The result? Oh yeah, this is getting old. No major mechanicals this week means I am once again in 3rd place with most of the regulars assuming their natural positions. I doubt I'll ever be faster than Matt Scherp.