Bus

Why is there always that one guy who sits down next to me who takes up a seat and a half and then breathes really heavy like he's about to keel over? Does anyone else have this problem or do I just attract them?

Good stuff.

Cyclocross upgrade points from Verge sandbaggers.

An "IM" Circle.

I think this is called an "Instant Message Orgy." Can you believe they were not talking but instant messaging each other... Whats this world coming to?

WCP

Are the women models from a local modeling firm?

Some one has to know...

Big crash.

Let me make this perfectly clear to you all. SR beat me the second day at Jingle Cross Rock because of a big crash that I was caught up in.

Peace.

Good job Little Guy!

9:30pm

Where are you.

These guys are going to win a race tomorrow. Think the ain't?

Gobble! Gobble!!

It's snowing out. Lalla and I had been planning on going on our own Turkey Ride...so I made him get his ass dressed and out the door. It was my first time riding in the snow, and I loved ever minute of it!! I used to ski race (alpine) in high school, so the snow and winter are my domain. I love it. I wore plenty of layers and was surprisingly warm. We went down the trail towards the lakes, around Calhoun, and into Linden Hills where we made a pit stop at Dunn Bros for a little refreshment. Fun times were had. Now I'm going to eat turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes until I go into a very sleepy and happy comatose. Hope you all can say the same :)



Happy Thanksgiving! Have a fun and safe day!

kicks

over at the (dis)pencer, (dis) provided some excellent commentary and pictoral examples of the foot attire that those in the state cx were rockin'. however, he forgot to mention that he, himself, had on some pretty awesome kicks that day - so awesome I took a picture.

Find Skibby.

Where were you after the race? Did you make it to the after party?

MN State CX.

Man that was a good drive up. I did it in 13.5 hours, and that's a new record folks.

State CX was awesome. I finished back there aways but had a great time. This was by far the best CX race I've been to. I would say even better then JCR last year. The crowd was amazing numbering in the hundreds. There were whiskey shots (Where were you guys for the B1 wave?) fire crackers, and people bunny hopping the barriers. The beer was flowing, and I'm glad it ran out or else I don't know how Leslie and I would have got home.

Also, at the race was Grizz and Tracy who came home from China with a new baby! You can check out their story here: Red Thread to China

Thanks Leslie for the hand ups and Tim for the annoying cheering. It's good to be home.

H-Wood you truly set the bar on how a course and race should be put on.

Next weekend Jingle Cross, I can't wait!

Look over at Skinnyski.com for lots of photos.

7:30am

It's riding time.

It's like this almost every morning.

OKC.

I ended up behind a crash so I started in dead last. I raced most of the race alone till I made it up to the leaders with 3 or 2 to go. Then they stared attacking... I ended up 3rd. The 39/16 was perfect I only wished I have 175mm cranks and not 170s...

The Weekend.

Ride, beer, run(hash), beer, beer, go out, beer, beer, a shot, puke, sleep, get up, car trip to OKC, race, got 3rd, 1 more beer, car trip home, movie, night night time.



I'm F'in tired.

As Promised

Here are some pictures form the Grumpy's/Little Guy Racing Velodome CX. Enjoy!

This is how we roll.

We take two vans and a trailer when the rest of the peeps go. That guy on the middle of the door has a sweet gold tooth.

Velodrome CX

Cool fall temp, crisp air, and sunny skies made for a great turn-out at the Velodrome cross race today. I woke up and gathered all of my stuff together jumped in the car and headed to Blaine. I was told to be there by 9:30am to get things set up for registration. I got up there and the lot was empty. Thought I had perhaps beat the others there. I called Hotpinkevil! and Super-Rookie, and they said they were on their way. The gate was locked, so I couldn't get in nor did I have Tuffy's number. In the meantime, I went across the way to grab a cup of coffee. When I got back over, S-R & HPE had arrived. As we were setting up we were talking about how registration was starting at 10am which I mentioned was at that moment....except it wasn't. I had completely forgot about daylight savings!! Stupid stupid stupid! I could have slept for another hour. Oh well. At least TC did it too :)

Seeing how I was busy at the registration table (because of the fantastic turnout!), I couldn't really watch much of the C or B race, but since it ran behind where we were sitting I was still able to cheer a bit. Once registration was finished for the A race, HPE and I went straight over to the ditch to watch the muddy action. Really fun course to watch! I think everyone was just as curious as I was to see how things were going to be set-up. Little Guy did a great job constructing it! I was surprised at how much he was able to do with the space up there. Homme was given the microphone to commentate, however I think there were a few times when it ended up in the hands of Hollywood and Timmer...

Since the weather was so nice, not only did we get a great racer turn-out, we got a great spectator turn-out as well. Tyson and Jean from BCR came to cheer on Dan I. and Wiki as did the whole Wiken crew! Finley was really pumped about cheering dad on. Chuck from the wonderful shop at Behind Bars with his adorable daughter, Daisy, came to enjoy as well. Along with so many others! We had a few people who seemed to stumbled upon the race and decided to stick around and check out this Cyclo-cross thing which was cool. Thanks to everyone who came out!

I have some pictures from the A race that I will post soon.

**I know I said I was going to post my pictures (and I will still post a few), but I just took a look at Frye's pictures, and they're so much better. I'd recommend you go look at those.

Junior A

Tim can back me up here. 3 big ass Shiner Bock beers, 3 fights, 3 periods who would want more in life?


O yeah we aslo went to Mt. Scott but who the hell wants to see the power files?

Mission failed. :(

Shame on the son of gun who dumped these cute little dogs! Shame on you!

It's not uncommon to go on a ride and see a pack of feral dogs wondering around. With the temps as they are down here it's paradise to them. But clearly these little guys were dumped off and were not taking care of themselves. Adam B. (who is on the team) and I were going to try and save these little buggers. Let me tell you, even if a dog can barely stand they still have a lot of fight left. When we were doing the "rescue" another Mt. Biker rolled up, who saw them the other day and he brought cat food for them.

Tomorrow the team is going to Mt. Scott and after we'ar going save them.

I'll post a photo as soon as blogger lets me...

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Update: Beer was more important. Sorry I'm human, Shame on me.