"Look into my eyes..."

I'll tell you, I am far faster when I ride my bike than when I have to walk it. I know there's no shame in pushing that single speed bike, but I pride myself in riding with a rhythm and maintaining momentum. Today was one long slugfest, which is good but not my forte. At French Creek Wes the Conqueror took, 7:00 out of me, I had hoped to cut that down a bit today, but as I mentioned he's pretty fast, and real smooth when off the bike, he took 10 out of me today. I won't even mention how much Travis would have beaten me by. So despite having to run my ass off today, despite trying to impale myself, and despite feeling utterly and completely lost, I had a good ride, I had fun and hell I picked up my first MASS podium ever. All in All a good day.

Tour de Tykes is a Charity fund raiser for the Children's Miracle Network, and a fun event. The trails were cool, it was very tough race. One of my goals has been to do races that I haven't done before; I can mark this one off of my list.