Sunshine and Light

A weekend of firsts

For Chris:
First Mountain bike win
First Mountain bike relay race
First Single Speed Mountain bike race (for those who don't bike, look at your kid's tricycle. That's a single speed. Take turns riding that with your friend for 12 hours. Sounds like fun, no?)

For Me:
First time to buy bras in this size. Yikes!
First time to shop in Babies-r-us, for us.
First time to shop at an Estate Sale. This one wasn't exciting, we'll see if anything better comes up in the future.

Ok, ok, hubby definitely had the more exciting weekend. Actually I've been fighting nasty migraines all weekend, so the dogs and I have spent a lot of time sacked out. I did get a little cleaning done in the back bedroom (aka the nursery, aka the pit), and dropped stuff off at the Salvation Army this AM. And a batch of books are going to the library tonight. So I'll take my incremental successes where I can.

The weekend didn't start out so well for Chris and the DCCoD Frank Kappa Zappa chapter. One of the three guys on his relay team crashed at the start of a practice lap on Saturday and was out of the race with a concussion. So Chris and his teammate Etown ended switching from 3 man open to 2 man single speed team, and the race was on. They did well - 2nd overall of the 2 man teams, and first in their division. Actually the whole DCCoD did really, really well. Congrats to all of you, and thanks for making Chris's first 12 hours race so much fun! (although I know he was hurting something fierce at the end).

Some great stories:

• Wes busting out a 42 minute lap at the end of the day (Which was the same time as the lap he did at the beginning of the race) to make his partner go out at 6:59:30. The latest they were able to leave for the last lap was 7PM. Further proving my personal theory that Wes and any other mountain biker make the best duo on the east coast.
• Fatmarc humbling my husband by blowing past on him on a hill somewhere around Chris's 5th lap. At which point he thought about quitting, but couldn't bring himself to do that to Etown.
• The Quantico version of "Pit Boy". Apparently a father-son team had an issue with something and at the awards ceremony they took it out on the promoter at the top of their lungs. Despite some tense moments, they eventually left to the catcalls of the other racers.

Labels: cycling

posted by MyHusbandRules @ 7:15 AM