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Top 5 in one shot....now that's efficiency.

CBR TRAINING................................

Sunday, after putting the "Tool Shed" in the "Hurt Locker" on a MTB ride, Andrea put in a little training for the July 4th crappy bike ride. Check out the newest little gem I snagged from the Tosa dump.
Yep...That's a Huffy Escape...3 speed. It's in great shape. Just a little soap and water, lube the chain, fill the tires..and bingo.

REAR-ENDED.....................

So I hit the drive through at Starbucks this morning for a large dark coffee. While in line, I accidentally rear-end the guy in the car ahead of me....SHIT.
The guy gets out of his car and he's a frickin' dwarf.
He walks to the back of the car shaking his head and looking at his rear bumper......"Ya' know, I'm not happy".....
I said..."Well...which one are you then???"

DON'T MESS WITH BUBBA.........................

CIRCA 1993.........................................

Meg and I kinda had a trailer trash thing goin' back then. I mean the wife-beater, the half-a-mullet, and that getup on Meg.... My gosh....I'd like to tell you we were headed to a costume party, but I don't remember that being the case.

I'm sooo embarrassed I just had to post it.

PHATHER'S DAY AT FILLIPS...........................

Having kids that love the same sport as you do makes it easy to get a free pass to go racing even on Fathers Day. Now, we support our creepy little tax write-off's in all their activities (some of those earlier squeeky violin concerts of Meg's were particularly painfull), but I admit I have lucked out with the cycling thing. No complaints.

Meg, on the other hand, was doing a little complaining..... This was our maiden voyage at Phillips and the first 10 minutes of the pre-ride had her barking about the lack of technical singletrack. But 2 times around the lap portion of the course put a smile on her face and confidence in her pocket. On the way back in she says"I don't want to jinx myself, but I think I can do pretty good tomorrow"

And good she did taking the overall win of 20 or so women including some of her best competition.

From whinning to winning....She's hillarious.

Jamie made the move to elite to race with the "bigshots". She was pretty nervous and had realistic expectations. At times she looked very good, and there were times later in the race when she looked pretty smoked. I think she did pretty well and she should improve when she gets used to the extra lap and overall speed of the race.

Then I came home Sunday to Andrea presenting me with this "Monster Wok on Steroids". This thing is SUUUUWEEEET!!!

Now,I just need to make the time to have a few get-togethers.

It was indeed, a happy Fathers Day.

PHILLIPS....................

Here's a few photos while you're waiting for me to post something clever and witty.

HMMMMMM...................WHAT TO DO..........

Let's see... I could stand in front of this for 2 hours tonight or head over to the beatdown.

PURE NEGLECT................................

At first glance you may say, "That's the Rusty Tool Shed and The People's Toyota"...Naaah...just a picture I got off the web to symbolize how I've been neglecting this blog.

Again....I'm sorry.

I, however, have not been neglecting the section of the Menomonee River known as The Bubba trails (They're not mine, but my dogs have marked them as their own). I've opened them up and done a few short re-routes bypassing low land junk that refuses to dry up to higher ground. I have more improvements in mind but I encourage everyone to ride them...even offer some improvment opinions so I can publicly ridicule them. O.K. maybe just privately.

I've been battling some kind of upper respiratory crap for about the last 3 weeks which I am blaming all my poor riding/racing on. I'm over it now and hope to have a good race in Phillips on Sunday.

For some reason, we have never raced at Phillips in 5 years doing WORS. Conflicting schedules and the long drive may have had something to do with it , but we're giving it a go this year.

CONGRATULATIONS ANDREA..........


Confirmation Sunday for Andrea. A big day for a girl of 13. I felt very proud....and very old.


This weekend also had Julie Wolf logging her longest bike ride to date. 26miles.......WOOO-HOOOOOOO.....