027: Monkey's Luscious Melons

I know what you are are thinking, two posts in two days?
What the frig man, is this facebook or the Fatmarc Vanderbacon blog?
Clearly not facebook, if for no other reason than fatmarc vanderbacon blog, doesn't offer you an option to "like" our posts.

Diane made a kick ass peach and blueberry cobbler this weekend.
after our ride today, we each had a handsome helping.

Monkey, " you know, we can't sustain ourselves on peach cobbler alone, we should make something with some sustenance."

Me: "speak for yourself, I'm going to have more cobbler!"

Spent the past two days realizing that I am not a very good mountain biker anymore. Two places that I clearly remember riding well, and consistently, the brandywine rock gardens and Wiss, both kicked my ass this weekend. I feel like an old man yearning for my glory days, but clearly I remember clearing those sections on my rigid single speed. With that memory, I successfully botched, dabbed, crashed, slid, skidded out, an generally failed to clean sections.

Now, Saturday after watching l-web clean the rock gardens on her first try, I did successfully make it, on my 4th try. The guys we were with didn't believe me when I said she was a better technical rider than me. Thanks to Dusty, Joel and John for a great ride Saturday.
Sunday, Monkey and headed up to Casa De Rock, and over to the Wiss to bomb around with a very fun crew of folks. I appreciate everyone's patience with me, as I am not so great in the rocky stuff anymore... Brilliant day lots of fun. Thanks to Kelly and Anne for being great tour guides...
Next weekend, I'll pin a number on for the first time since the Baker's Dozen. I'm competing on a three man team at the Cranky Monkey with Mayhew and Tille. I'm also excited to get another crack at the Quantico course. The last time I raced here was back in 2005, and though we did finish on the podium, I was in a death spiral, and my legs never felt good the entire day. I'm going in this year with much fresher legs, and I'm pretty excited to see if I can improve upon my last performance. Couple that with the fact that I think our class is pretty stacked, there should be some good racing... Lets just hope there aren't too many rock gardens... Ugh.
more about Quantico later... I have an entire week to stress about about that...

but first perhaps I'll run off to the fridge for another helping of this awesome peach cobbler:
thanks for reading.

respect
fatmarc

ps: yeah I know I'm missing the Weekend on the Farm. Considering I did 3 mtb races last year and 2 of them were at the farm, I need a little variety here. I'll miss Kuhn, I'll get back there... I promise...