I love art.

It's probably doesn't suck that my boss sent that to me huh?

rock out with your...

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The International Relay-

Profit= total revenue- total cost.

 The Most Important Unimportant Race All Year. I'll say it, it's probably my favorite race all year long. I have to be honest, I didn't think I'd get to race it this year with school and all. A couple of weeks ago I bumped into my teammate Pricey out on the trail, and he told me that his team needed at fourth. "I'll be your Huckleberry" I said to him quickly. So stoked. Racing is always awesome, and it's great to see folks, and I won't lie I get pumped riding through the camp areas, and everyone is cheering... It's freaking rad. I had a nice battle with Lebair on lap 3. He caught me at the end of the first climb. It took everything in my power to hang with him from the rest of the lap, and then I used old man trickery and deception to slip in front of him at the line. That was fun, thanks for not just destroying me Craig.  Okay, time to photo blog:

teamates on DarthAuer's Evil Care Bear Army: Pricey, Branchow...

breyla-la, Auer and the Evil Care Bear Army's Captain Jake.

Okay the Auer's Evil Care Bear Army didn't do too well by the points...

But we put down some good laps... 

Monkey was teamed with Jenn , Nick an Bob seen here with Wooden Wheel's Tricia.

wonder if the director will fine himself at the end of the month for this obvious uniform violation.

Dan McDermott flying...

My number is 867-5309 maybe we can go see a movie sometime?

What's my Strava Score for that last  lap?

Shawnee hanging it all out at the end of the day...

Team Tall, Dark, Handsome  crosses the line together. 13 laps. Well  Done.

recovery ride sunday:

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pictures taken from Jenn Sears and Sandy Reyonlds and my own awful photo stylings.

Another one bites the dust...

4 Saddles in 2 years. I'm gonna start to take this personally. While wicked comfortable, I'm afraid I'm on to the next...

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fatmarc destroyer of ti-railed saddles

Sometimes my job is....

Really, really hard.
Sometimes it is really wonderful.

I got called into emergency back up Easter Bunny Duty today.
No children were scarred for life. (I hope).

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Best Strava Segment EVER

Bad Kat !

White Clay Creek Preserve, PA

Dear Fatmarc Readers,

Those of us how have been riding in the area for 20+ years probably spent sometime riding some of the fun single track trails in the White Clay Preserve in Pennsylvania. I have fond memories of riding what at that time was called the tree trail and looping around Landenberg, PA. Then they were closed. Made Illegal.

We lost access to those trails, many years ago.

In recent years, the Trail Spinners have seen some movement and the possibility of getting access to trails in the White Clay Preserve. Well, it would appear that some shady business may have gone down regarding the board that advises decisions regarding the White Clay Perserve Access. What was at one point a board represented by a number of different user groups, it would appear that now it's been disbanded and reformed with board members who are all anti-multi-use trails, and anti-bike.

The Trail Spinners are arguing that in due process has not been followed, and has moved to have the new board ruled not recognized.

So here's what we are asking :

If you can please attend the meeting Monday Night @ 7:30 at the friends meeting house 300 London Tract Rd. This will be a pivotal meeting determining board that advises the white clay creek preserve on policy. The goal is to make sure that the board accurately reflects user groups.

Look, I'm not opposed to keeping an area from becoming a "destination" to ride.
Anyway, I promise no more politics on this blog.

thanks.

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vanderbacon

thursday night ride....

game on...

Tim C, Jimmy V, Thayer the Slayer, Dennisbike.com, Kurtee, Sanford, LEO, Ted Logic, McCloskey, Bill Pipes, Pricey, Chris Jackson and Joe B...

Slapped me around pretty good tonight. Good Fun.

A quick drink before getting back to it...

16.3 miles, 1400ft of climbing, 10.3 average... It was rad...

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fatmarc...

I work out.

got a new black wind vest.
Team order didn't have wind vests this spring. Understandable sourcing issues. I needed a lighter vest. Team edition next year.
I got a new black wind vest.

I work out.

hopefully no team uniform fine in the mail at the end of the month. It's still a black vest.

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choosing your hills

Got my first test back. It was a solid score I was pleased with it. On one problem I saw I lost a point for with a notation that said "formula". This despite me having written  TT=TR-TC... I asked the professor about it. He stated he was looking to see us put the values into the formula. It's all about building on skills.

Now, clearly I didn't agree. I had the formula written right there, and I had the right answer. BUT, this professor is awesome. And while he is not a bad looking man, I wouldn't rate him as HOT PROFESSOR on ratemyprofessor.com, I would and will rate him very highly as a teacher.  He does a great job breaking down the material, is patient and helps everyone understand that it all builds on each other. Not only that, he's put up with my multiple email questions, and me pulling him aside at break. Fuck, it's a point, in the scheme of things, small cookies. Not the hill, I want to die on.

At the break, I see one of my peers, who I believe is much more math skilled than I, and much closer to finishing her program must have had a similar remark on her paper. She however, decided to take a different tact rolling with the, "you know I could have done the entire thing in my head!? I only wrote down anything for grading purposes!" Perhaps she was not displaying grace in times of friction. OUCH.

At the end of class, the Professor, who again I think is totally awesome said the he had a number of folks ask him about the scoring of that problem, and that he would give back any points taken if a formula was written.Bonus! He continued the goal is to make sure that we are building on what we learn, and his goal was to make sure we understood and demonstrated how we got the correct answer.

While I was happy to take back a point, I also gotta say, that point would be worth it. This guy is good.

got write a paper or two this week. game on.

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