one that got away

so the 09 mtn bike season begins. my man rick W foolishly agreed to team up with me for the 6 hr duo at the stump farm. even more foolishly, after winning the coin toss at breakfast, he elected to let me start the race's first 2 laps. after we successfully fended off the threatening team of russell and the Thin White Dane with dire warnings of inclement weather, we figured we might have to race the thing. instead, i immediately put us down in time to the speeding c peariso, and some other dudes. rick carried the weight the rest of day, clawing back time only to let me give it back. drama unfolded as the peariso's graciously stepped out of the race to let us hacks battle it out - rick pounced and handed me the lead at around 4.5 hours. i promptly handed it back to the 2 dudes, when he made a sweet attack on my sorry ass on the flat gravel section where i had no answer, spun out on the SS. excellent move. we made them earn it at least, by staying on the gas and squeezing a last lap in with them. if rick woulda started we woulda won, but the 2nd place swag was better anyway.




MK laid her 18 y/o waiver signature down for the first time in the 3 hr. somehow, even tho she is 18, can vote, elect presidents and so forth, i appear to still be paying for bike races. not sure how she worked that out, but good-work-if-you-can-get-it. seein' as she has only been on the bike for 2 weeks after spending all of april away or catching up from the great college hunt, all bets were off. she did better than expected, tho - managing to stay on the gas and negative split laps 3 and 4 ( even if she missed the cut-off on lap 4 ). she clawed her way past some very fine competion to a hard fought 3rd. along the way she received generous pit support from anthony dombrowski, and a swift boot out onto the course for her mathematically-impossible-but-do-it-anyway-just-because 4 th lap from rick.

excellent time seeing many bike people again, after the long winter. the elusive one was confirmed outside his own area code, and joined many of the above, plus the cooooooops for a some wicked-excellent pizza after the race. rick and liz brought a superfine dessert, which we still have most of. russell shoulda been there ( and he never should have fallen for our wily "don't-come-its-raining-out tactic" ), but the season is early and he won't get fooled by that one again - besides if he had been there he and jerry would have won the sweet world-champ socks, and not me and rick - sux for the shedmaster. next up, iola - it's time to race mtn bikes. happy day.