Tom Selleck's Moustache and Team Camp - "group ride"

Saturday's:

Who can pull off a mustache besides Tom Selleck ?

I think I made Jake mad when he said, "my dad has a pretty good moustache."

To which I replied, "is your dad Tom Selleck?"

Jake coyly responded, "no."
with a shit eating grin I retorted, "sorry buddy. your dad's cool, but not Tom Selleck cool..."

After that Jake pretty much smacked me around the rest of the day.
Yeah, I'm sure I deserved it.
Jake had a  Damn Jack Frost crazy frozen beard too.

Trails at Fairhill were still tough going. Powdery and 2-4 inches deep in  the deepest areas... Our strategy was to ride up fire roads down single track. That was fun but hard. Alan the Cleaner, Kid Chris, Jake and CZ came out to keep me company.

By the numbers the ride wasn't that all that impressive, judging by how awful my legs felt after the ride and the length of my Saturday nap this might have my best ride in a really long time- I was destroyed...

Sunday:

C3 Athletes Serving Athletes team ride at Loch Raven. Auer is a very demanding director. He expects the best from his team, an expects everyone to work hard, work for the team, and be prepared to deliver their best efforts. He was walking around this morning pinching everyone, giving everyone a good glance over, and making sure that those extra holiday pounds are melting off. When he pinched me he smiled and said, "don't worry it's still January..."
 
The trails at Lock Raven are amazing. They also have much less snow and have been ridden in much more the my local trail system. Under normal conditions the trails at Loch Raven are flowy, technical and fun. The log overs are something that are a distant memory in these parts. But Today, after seemingly weeks of deep snow, and less than good conditions, today Lock Raven felt like Valhalla for me. It was amazing that for a change it didn't feel like my bike was a snow plow..

I was so happy I was singing in my head happy Beatles and John Lennon's songs. I was so stoked. Lilibridge turned to me at one  point and asks, "you trying out for American Idol soon?" So apparently my singing wasn't all in my head... truly the trails were blissful...

Just when the team was getting all Kumbaya Motherfucker, team captain Bad Andy went to the front and kicked it up a notch. Like I said, the demands on members of the C3 Athletes Serving Athletes team are very high, and BA was reminding everyone to tend to their business. The aforementioned Joe Lilibridge was working on his ninja skills, Chris Price was sharpening up his elbows and thankfully we all ended up back at the cars as a group. I hung on for dear life and just making it back to the car before totally blowing up... Hugs and high fives were shared and we all look forward to seeing each other again soon....  It was really a great ride...

went back to last year's team tiffosi glasses, which I love.

Shawn and Harlow, who dreamed up this training camp or "group ride" as they called it.

respect.
fatmarc vanderbacon