222: DCCoD Prom

this past weekend Monkey and I hosted the 3rd annual DCCoD Prom.

Thanks to everyone who made it out, and for those who missed, we'll try to catch you next year.

I need to thank a few folks who helped pull this off:

Dennis Smith for a great slide show

Jan for setting up the equipment to show the slide show

The Bahnson/Weber and Rotten Robert for housing folks.

Alyssa and Regan for cooking this morning

Everyone that brought such tasty beer and treats for the party

Myles and Tom for mixing up some magical waffle mix.

Mayhew for the fine espresso, and bringing that bad boy all the way from Pittsburgh.

Thanks to everyone who helped cleaned up, hang out, and just have a great time.

We are truly blessed to have the great folks around us that we do...

I am so fucking stoked from this weekend. Such a freakin' good time.

I am utterly exhausted, my dogs are exhausted, monkey is asleep on the couch.

Without further delay The DCCoD Prom in 3 acts:



ACT I: The Party:

the Collins were rockin'

Jeff winced in pain every time an old shot of him, when he was shorter than Diane, came up on the screen.

I will be riding D-town with Bob very soon.

international man of mystery...
the slide show was a crowd favorite.

Lots of great people and conversation

Chicks dig moustaches !

I'm trying to show Hardy where the bathroom is.

E-town was able to relax after a great first semester.

Jake and Alyssa have one last reprieve before heading back to school.
Act II: the ride

33 of us headed out for a group ride on the fine trails of Fairhill. We stayed together with minimum waiting and a wonderful ride was had by all. The trails had SUPERHERO traction and were very fun.

Kid Chris and Myles exchange war stories.


Wes adds air to the tires on the gay UPS and in the background

Kurtee is peeing.

Anne rock made the ride this morning. I think she had fun.I love this shot of Rich...Anne Rock.

Tom makes this look easy.

Monkey at the bottom of 5 bridges...

ACT III: Brunch and Re-Hydration

left over cheesecake, high life and Rock.
Life just doesn't get any better.

Alyssa and Regan started the waffles as we finished up our ride. Thanks so much.

my living room now called the living room presented by C3-Sollay.com

the kitchen was crowded after the ride.

Ninja Don gets some water and Mayhew demonstrates the appropriate

kit for mixing up some fine espresso

waffle line was long...


Monkey and Alyssa.



fatmarc needs food badly.


Rotten is wonderful...

I need to go to lay down now.

respect

fatmarc

221: Adventures...

Pretend for a moment that you are one of the mid-atlantic's best and most storied cylocrossers. We could add that you are the director of the region's strongest and deepest cyclocross team. And since we are pretending, lets just say you weigh 112lbs soaking wet, and that you don't expect to win any arm wrestling contests any time soon.

So naturally, you would plan to do a 120 mile kayak trip starting in the everglades and ending up in the Florida keys. Did I mention this would be a solo trip?

Frankly you'd either be completely insane, or you'd be Kris Auer.

Kris is teaming up with the fine folks at Adventures for the Cure raising money for Extreme Weekend for Children with Diabetes and World Bicycle Relief.

check out more info here.

And while you're at it, why not help out Anne Rock. Go here. read it and leave a sweet comment, so Anne can win a trip.

DCCoD Prom arrangements are coming along very nicely.

we are all excited for a fun weekend ahead. It will be good to see friends, and have some nice bike rides too.

stay warm.

rock.

fm

I will admit to you I thought I was over the mountainbike thing. But the past two weeks I have had amazing, and wonderful trail rides. Plus, my bike just feels so dialed in right now. So much fun. I'm really loving my mountian bike right now...

220: lookin' at my gucci, it's about that time

Found out today that Judd will now be the director of the MABRA cross series. Judd has asked that I be one of the technical advisers for the series. I'm pretty stoked about that. I wonder if that means I can get back on the MABRA cross promoters email list? Just curious.

The weatherman predicted a pretty horrible weekend for riding, but I have to be honest I had a couple of really great rides. Saturday Buddy lead a nice group of us around white clay and middle run.

For the record not a single one of us cleaned this log on this day. But we had fun trying.

Sunday L-Web, Rotten and I had the pleasure of being lead around sections of the d-town trail system by BPand Kim.

Colin told me he thought my bike was beautiful.

I couldn't tell if he was being serious or busting my ass, because last weekend I told him about my super secret crush. No, not Flo from the Progressive Insurance Commercials, although I do love her big tricked out name tags, but the caffeine 29er.I have to admit it's pretty sweet.

Been on FB for a week now. Perhaps not the devil as much as I thought before. I have 147 friends, most of which I know or have spoken to at some point in my life. But for the folks that request my internet friendship that I don't know I use the following protocol:

1. Ask monkey : " Diane who the fuck is Jeremy Powers and why does he want to be my friend?"

2. check crossresults.com: "nemesis or victim? have they beaten me, do they race cross, have they been to granogue, did I tell them no to a race refund?"

3. check usacycling.org :" why would some roadie want to be my friend?"

4. google stalk them.

If I can't come up with some realistic connection, or conversation with them at this point, I kinda have to ignore. Yeah, I could change the protocol, but I still feel kinda creepy about the entire facebook thing. It's just a little creepy, but you know then again, so am I. If I have ignored you in error, please leave me a comment and I will reexamine.

I agree with Colin, my bike is damn sexy.

respect

fatmarc

219: I know she can, she's my sister Anne

I am a crosser.
As such my training objectives for January are pretty basic:

1. Keep moving.

2. Don’t allow my arteries to clog with gravy.

3. Try to not break any all time weight gain records

4. try to ride a bike once in a while.

This is also the time of year when I do a little running. If you’d like to get a picture of me running, imagine Phoebe from Friends running and you’ll have a pretty good picture. Put me on a treadmill and it’s even worse.

Recently, I was running on the treadmill at work. I stared out flailing around as is my normal move. Finally I started to get into a rhythm my arms pumping, sweat pouring, Belly bouncing, everything was going well.

Unfortunately when pumping my arms I kinda karate chopped my MP3 player headphone cord, which was attached to my MP3 player sitting in the cup holder of the treadmill. My violent arm movement, pulled the wire attached to my MP3 player so violently that I yanked the little music machine out of the cup holder and shot it out behind me and across the room.

If not for the quick matrix like reaction time of one my co-workers, I might have sent her to the hospital. YIKES.

Luckily the MP3 player and my co-worker were uninjured. I on the other hand, couldn’t walk up stairs after my little run on the treadmill…

I put this super hot, sexy, sleek, salsa fork on my bike. I'll admit I have been lusting after it ever since I saw Peaches. Sadly I won't get to ride this bike anytime in the next since the midatlantic has been monsoon country the past two days. Look how sexy it is:

Monkey, Zayne and I had a very fun ride tonight. Well, okay it wasn't fun. It was soulless, but at least I did something.

see objective #1

Riley loves Rollers.

respect.

fatmarc vanderbacon

PS: So the fork is so damn sexy...

218: a freakin' week.

Wow, it's been a week since I last updated.

I had a couple posts ready, just never posted them. I'll try to squeeze a lot into this one.

This one will be a three part post. A little long, but what the hell, sit back and enjoy.


I. New Year's Day: Amnesty Ride:


On New Year’s Day I skipped the local mountain bike ride to take part in the 17th Annual Amnesty Ride hosted by Billy V. Truth be told I knew the mountain bike ride would be more fun, but I have been really enjoying my fixed gear recently. I also wanted to pay my respect to Billy V. Billy is the dean of road cycling in this area. I have learned a ton following the guy
around for years, and always enjoy being in the pack with him.

This year most of my conversations could be summed up with these statements:

“dude, it’s fucking cold”

“yeah, I think my eye is frozen”

At one point I was on the front, chatting a bit with Blair and Kris. Then I looked at Blair, and then I looked at Kris and I asked, “ okay, does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? To the left is Canadian Olympian and all around Strong Man Blair, to the Right is World Champion Duathlete Kris. In the middle, Freakin’ Fatmarc !? I am so not worthy…” She laughed, he laughed it was all good.

we turned the corner and I found my rightful spot at the back of the pack.

II. MAC Prom:

Since the team MAC cup has disappeared, and is rumored to be in Gunnar's Garage or Leaches's parent's basement, Auer thought it would be a good idea to give everyone on C3 their own MAC CUP's so we could all once again drink from the MAC cup.

Everyday this year, I will drinketh from the cup and have wonderful memories.






Jake rocks. Alyssa too (not pictured)

Heidi was saucy!

Ladies Love Sweet Johnny!

Regan thinks to herself, "is the glass empty or unfull?"

Some have called this man a genius, some have called him a madman.

He is both. I heart Tom

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Bad Kat and I with Cheshire smiles.

Don't be surprised if this one ends up on a Christmas Card or something!

Cross Boss. (es)

Harlow, worlds bound LVG and Shawn...

Kim looked simply stunning.

She did have her number pinned on the wrong side.


III. I fell in love with my MTB again.

Great ride Saturday morning early. On my very simple, very basic mtb. I almost felt proficient carving the trails of middlerun. I happily rode all the trails in middle run in about an hour and a half. I wasn't the smoothest or most efficient linker of trails. My ride was miles of smiles.



Sunday I had some friends over for a tour of Fairhill. It was really fun.

Lauri took this picture of our group.

Dennis took this picture of Lauri.

For those scoring at home: Meatball, Jebalicous, Bad Kat, Bad Andy, Jake, Auer, Jan, Kennedy, Sam the hammer, Colin, Dennisbike, Bill (father of the hammer), JHIII,Bilson, Zach, Kim,Breyla-a, and Elizabeth made the two hour tour.

mid point of the ride:

Bike felt great today, again trails were superhero good, and in some sections I felt like I had a little flow. Truly an amazing day.

Dennisbike practices a little parallel climbing.

Meatball gets down on a log stunt.

Finally, Monkey and Breyla-la set up a facebook account for me.

We'll see how that goes. Perhaps a sign that the apocalypse is upon us.

respect

faticus