229: DEVO

This weekend Zach, my C3-Sollay.com cross teammate, brought to town the Fast Forward Racing Productions Junior Development Team for a little training camp hosted by the Bohnson/Webber Clan.

I have already long been impressed with the level head, and vision that Zach brings to the table. The way he pulled the team together, and frankly having these camps has served the team well two fold. First the riders are getting some great training in, second from a team building standpoint, tucking everyone together in one house, eating, sleeping, goofing off together is pretty incredible.It's times like these when I truly admire Zach and think to myself, man for a 19 year old kid, he's really got a grasp on things. Then he buys fireworks and I am reminded that as much as he gets it, he's still got some jackass in him. Which is probably why I love him.

With Jake helping to steer the ship, and the cast they have assembled, it's going to be pretty impressive to watch what these guys can do this year...

Although ideally the plan was to have some really good moutain bike rides this weekend, the warm weather made the trails mush. Anyone riding any of the trail systems in our Delaware area this weekend was the devil, and truly a selfish. But I digress.

Rotten, Jan, Bilson, Monkey and I were privileged enough to be invited to tag along and ride with the FFRP team this weekend. It was pretty awesome. The turkey point loop is one of my favorites, and it's always great to have a team of junior riders to push me over the hills when I am cracking, or trying to climb in general.

Tom drove sag wagon, let me tellyou it didn't suck to be struggling up a climb and have him pull up along side of you and hand you a freshly baked cookie. "here, you look like you need to eat, here's a cookie..." I can't climb, but in a climbing and cookie eating contest, I might be the horse to bet on...

Following the ride we all chilled out at the Bohnson/Webber clan enjoyed some vegetarian chili and a nice sandwich. We talked a lot of smack. Perhaps funniest of all was when all the kids gathered around the computer and used the internerd for what it was truly intended: looking at porn. Okay not really, the kids were sharing powertap files, and seeing who had the biggest output from the morning ride. These guys are totally into it.

I understand Auer is planning the same camp of C3-Sollay just before cross. You know the entire C3 cross team, there's only 40 of us, under one roof. What could go wrong?

Saturday night I met up with Sam, Elk, Buddy, Liz and Robert at Go Vertical in Philly. It was a lot of fun. Good climbing for sure. Great company, and awesome dinner. I want to get back up there and climb again very soon.

Sunday we loaded up the car with old frames and other wonderful product to sell and headed for the Westminster Stop, Swap and Save.

I had never been to a swap meet before, and it was a very interesting time. I did not manage to sell my Spot or my Fisher frame, but Crazy Fatmarc is slashing prices, if you have an interest, I'm ready to make a deal. It was great seeing my teammates Norman and Kennedy who I hadn't seen in a little while.Following the swap meet we had a really mellow ride with our C3-Sollay teammates around a nice loop. It was fun.

Despite the mellow paced ride, the highlight of the day for me was getting my sweet pimpy new road shoes and having Auer have them molded to my feet! That experience was a little weird, I won't lie, I'm not sure I loved it, but I do love the shoes! Pimpalicious...

It was a fun weekend. Monkey and crammed in as much fun as we could into two days. Now I need to go back to work so I can recover.

thanks for reading.

respect

fatmarc