The Weekend

This weekend started out with the prospect of the classic Koppenberg race on Sunday. So Saturday was spent prepping, getting a preride of the course in, including the short yet steep climb. For those who are not familiar with the race its a 5.5 circuit, 8 laps, 50% dirt, with the famous dirt climb.
To say that it was windy during the Saturday ride would lack the true description of how bad it was, but it was windy and the mountains showed something building up.

Sunday morning camp with the readiness to race in cold and wet dirt but the call came that the race had been canceled and a look outside showed a layer of snow on the ground. Oh well, time to head to Denver then for dim sum. This means lots of little food with a lot of good friends. Doug tried the mystery meat, we knew it was some part of a pig, but it really could have been ANY part.

A small portion of the aftermath.

After the gorging there was an adventure into the Asian market, and I have to say I love this place. On the list of the things that you normally don't see in an American supermarket is the row of whole fish out in the open for picking.

Next in the day out in Denver we headed over to the Auto show. I was really looking forward to seeing the new Bullitt, but the line that wrapped around the convention center to just by a ticket to get in put a stop to that.

Good weekend, all it needed was a race, but time to get ready for the next one.

Parking In Denver

What?
So I can only park here for 1/4 of an hour.

Personal Snow Day

Well it snowed again last night, thats all I have to say about that.

I took today off work. One, cause I am tired of fighting stupid drivers in rush hour who can't drive in clear roads, only because there is some snow on the side of the road, and two, I have some other things to get done, such as taxes.

I also found time today to visit the Home Depot and found a white Bird of Paradise, which are rare and I had a good spot for it so, done, there it is.
Tomorrow will be my first day back to the bike after a solid week off. After work Pink and I are heading to Meridian. Should be fun, we'll see how it goes.

#1 Slacker = Me

It is again that time where I begin to wonder when the last time was that I updated, and since it has been over a week I figure its time to post again.

I race last weekend, TT on Saturday went well, but the crit on Sunday not so much. I got sick again after the TT and the showed through on the crit, lets just say it made its self physically present. So this week I've taken completely off the bike to try and get things back to normal. Then I got to thinking the last time I felt normal and you would have to rewind all the way back to Oct/Nov last year. The docs I've gone to see keep saying its just a little flu or cold and do nothing to really check if it could be something else.

I wish I was in Moab this weekend with everyone mountain biking, but I still don't have a mountain bike, thought I was getting one, but it hasn't showed up yet. Today I will be boken of my live hockey virginity. I've been told it will be an awesome game so it should be a good time.

High Grade

The snow storm that hit on Sunday was a reminder that winter isn't done with us yet, but it was also a good reminder to recover from the death march.

I took off work today since it was looking like it would be the only nice day this week. It was pretty windy so I headed down to Littleton to ride High Grade. It was a little less windy but after a few hours of repeats the winds picked up and the clouds rolled in. I figured that was a good stopping point.
The ride was a good one and training is picking up again as this weekend marks the first weekend of racing in Colorado. TT on Saturday and a Crit on Sunday. And so it begins.

Death March to Bring in March

I love the first warm days of the year. But I hate when they are followed up by snow the next day. But as for today it was 76degrees and we headed out for a death march. 10 of us rolled out of Golden and headed up Lookout for a nice warm up.
After Lookout we headed over to Evergreen and on up Squaw Pass where it soon became only four of us left, the usual suspects (Me, Hutch, Seth, and Joey)

After dropping into Idaho Springs we stopped for some snaks at Safeway and enjoyed the sun as much as we could.

Pinkerton's choice for refueling

After Idaho we headed for Floyd Hill, but the route to get there was a little lost under the snow.

But we forged on.

Floyd hill took us back to Lookout and back into Golden. Just under 6hrs, so now I am just sitting on the couch hoping the forcast for snow again tomorrow is wrong.