Spent some time up at Granogue doing some scouting and trail work this morning with Buddy the keg breaker, (i)Paul, and international man of mystery, Les Leach.We rushed over to the JCC to meet up with Mr. Gavigan Death Trail himself. Gavigan had best in show, and another dude with him. We had a nice group, and then after riding the Gavigan Death Trail, we met up with another group and a pretty big posse going. The group was suffering from a bit of large group paralysis, so International Man of mystery, Les Leach made the call, and we slipped off of the back of the group by ourselves. The next 2 hours were filled with some amazing single track riding. I don't think anyone knows B-wine like Les. I struggled a bit in the big rock garden, I was a little disappointed with that, but made a couple of logs I had not made before. My pedals are really sussed out, and I did a couple of unintentional one footers. That's hard on the confidence for sure.
All in all a pretty spectacular day if you ask me.
Buddy's flat bar's are giving him some trouble on the geared bike.
he prefers the old TV antenna style.
Paul made a new friend while changing a flat.
While I'm enjoying a spring time semi-retirement, I was stoked to hear of so many friends doing well and qualifying for the Nationals today at Greenbriar. Props to Coach for taking a 2nd in the single speed race.
In closing, I had a nice conversation with Peaches this weekend. He brought up the point that the DCCoD really needs to stop carrying Wes. I mean, last year it was Peaches carrying the load at Cranky Monkey, while Wes sat in and collected another W. This time it was poor little Jeb carrying the load, as Wes got to collect another win down at the Baker's Dozen....
yeah, we both laughed out loud at that one...
four days in a row rolling on the new frame. She's a keeper for sure.
respect.
faticus
3 comments:
marc, i agree that Wes is such a bastard. he's always talking a big game but then never does anything about it. i mean peaches is STILL recovering from last year's tremendous last lap effort at cranky monkey. what do the good citizens have to do to get this tanned menace off the trails?? resort to zombie tactics? donuts? angry germans?
Thanks for the props. Thanks even more for the pep talk(s) before the race. I was just stoked to beat the guy who claimed "to be doing the singlespeed race for the money".
BTW, what's up with the "cross" t-shirts and how do I get one?
Hi MARC!
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