Nov. 26, 2011


Fishmonger's in Durham. Long day on the road, dropped Steph off at BWI, then drove back to NC.

Nov. 25, 2011





Philadelphia. Geno's Cheese Steaks, downtown, and the Franklin Institute.

Nov. 24, 2011





The family meal, the birthday girls, a small selection of pie, and just the girls.

Nov. 23, 2011


No stupid Tom Tom, Pennsylvania Ave. in DC is not the fastest way to Philadelphia the day before Thanksgiving...

Nov. 20, 2011


Tony wins the championship and I came in 14th. OK they were different races.
We visited my folks this weekend, so I raced in Charleston, SC today. The field was mixed with Cat 3 & 4 racers, then 15 minutes or so before the start, they announced we were racing as one class, Cat 1, 2, 3 & 4. That also meant we were racing Cat 1 time. The course was set up at Wannamaker Park and was a fast course with half on near putting green like grass and half in the woods on sandy singletrack. The 12-16th places had a fun race among ourselves, I was 12th at the start of the last lap, but lost three places on the hill run up, several us switched places on the lap and I caught 14th before the volleyball court sand trap, I choose to run it and blew by him and started my sprint... but I ran out of time to catch 13th... max heart rate was 189 bpm.

Nov. 19, 2011


Sharing a 2007 Hunt Country Vignoles with my mom.

Nov. 18, 2011






Today the Tanglewood Park Festival of Lights was open only to cyclists. We rode through 4.5 miles of lights and then hit Krispy Kreme store #2 for refreshments. KK was founded in downtown Winston-Salem, store #1 was torn down and moved to the location of #2, at least according to the employee... Funny story, the GPS when searching for KK, took us to the corporate HQs which doesn't sell doughnuts : P

Nov. 17, 2011


Sunset.

Nov. 16, 2011


It looker better on the LCD....

Nov. 15, 2011


What happens when a moth gets in....

Nov. 14, 2011


Night ride prep. My first night road ride of the winter. I was a little behind on the prep, but I learned a 23mm wide tire will work on a 22.5mm wide rim ; )

Nov. 13, 2011 (Bonus)


Bonus Picture.

Nov. 13, 2011






Cyclocross Race #6 - Charlotte.

Today was a fun technical course, lots of off camber turns, steep hills and a sand pit. My day started as this season has gone, in the back. I rode well until my first solo wreck in a while, I was over taking a rider on a tight off camber turn when I went for the gas, I clipped a pedal, flipping me over the tape and onto my back a good 6 feet or more from the course... I lost several places but raced my way back to the rear of the middle third of the field of almost 60 riders.... It was a fun day!

Nov. 12, 2011



Cotton field.