Friday, April 30, 2010

and now... without further ado... just 'cause....

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Time for a ride!!!

YARGH!!!

TOO many days down with a cold... the mountain bike (with fancily administered green tape on my old barends) gets to hit the trails! AND the only shorts I have left that are clean happen to be white!!!! (commence the hoe-down!!!!)


Only a few weeks until Almanzo... crap on a crutch! (commence the curling up in a ball of fear!!!)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Ragnarok 3 has came and went

Well... SPH presented by Wheelhouse Cycles had another great day last Saturday and with the help of a pile of racers who generally rode safe and stuff another 'Rok is in the books.

Even though we were busy all day and running around... this is essentially what it felt like at times:


The leaders really rocked the house down and averaged like 7,000,000 knots (which I think is the conversion for 17 or so mph). Of the SPHers who tried the event Elliott did awesome! Finishing on a ridiculously spinnerific gear. Eric did awesome in his own right. Making it to the checkpoint where he decided to live to plunder another day and call it off.

A few of us still have Almanzo coming up... we'll see how that goes. I'll have to squeeze in some long rides right after work as my weekends are getting more busy than these guys:

Friday, April 2, 2010

What a great ride!


Luckily Scraggs and I didn't need no doctor... that lightning was awful close.....

Good rides today for Scraggs and Blackbeard. We went the first 30some miles on the 'rok course and then had to get back for tennis practice. Which was then cancelled as we sort of rode through a lightning storm. Crash bam boom!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

SPH rides again!

The warm spring weather has let the ships out of port earlier than normal for the scurvy dogs of SPH. Gravel, road, and mountain biking routes have all been plundered.

Tonight it was attack of the spinners as only one SPHer was at the first official RAMBO ride of the year (at least by the time we left... the Express showed up just a hair late... and maybe had a better ride). Here are a couple of examples of spinners....


Which would have been a bit more enjoyable while also being very toe-tapping.

And the spinners I'm talking about isn't this either:


The spinners I am talking about don't need any introduction. It was still fun riding, but push 20-24 up some of those hills gents. You can do it. Maybe I just shouldn't have 34-18 at the beginning of the year... but I guess it was doable.

On the road this week one of the old dogs and the young pup were at the ride. It was a tame ride for the most part. Young Riley and Blackbeard did test the groups' legs on the one climb on 3. Riley was up to the task, but Blackbeard has some climbing work to do.

Here is essentially what happened...


Blackbeard looked like this....


But... we all joined back up and it was Blackbeard leading out Riley for the sprint win...

Riley did great but couldn't quite shake Mr. Patterson. A better lead out from Blackbeard and maybe next week will be different.