Next on the map: State Championships in the Bubble, then to Kansas for Nationals, then to? Umm.
Anna! You bet your kielbasa she's Polish.
Whateva I'm bad, I do what I wanna.
1/3 of the pit crew that saved the weekend and let the show go on.
Before the first epic day...trying to stay warm and avoid the rain.
Another third of the most excellent pit crew.
And Sara, the crazy Velo Bella downhiller who put Jen, Anna, and I up for the weekend! Who is psyched in the background?
Anna works on her game face.
Muddy much Shannon? Many much epic-ness. Yeah, that's nothin' compared to Sunday.
Epic and cluster were the words of the weekend. Geez, it wouldn't stop raining. There was a brief 30 second period when we spotted the sun, but it vanished before the words could escape from our frosty shivering lips. Saturday was fun, but I'm not sure I can say the same about Sunday quite yet, as I can still remember the compulsive trembling shivers for 45 minutes post-race. I crossed the line cross-eyed with chills, bolted for the van, dropped my mud-soaked bike, stripped naked as quickly as possible, attempted to wipe the layer of mud off, and put every single layer of dry clothing on, while sitting in the van with the heat cranked to the max. But no, the shivers would not cease. Shaking, teeth chattering, out of our minds, we sat for 45 minutes, drinking hot chocolate until finally, slowly we mustered some sort of control over our shocked bodies. Before, during, and after was a cluster, but my-oh-my, was it epic.
I had my first bike change. Though messy and a cluster, it happened with Donn's (Challenge Tires) help. It's something I need to work on. I was stubborn and didn't take a bike change on Saturday, when it was really needed, so by the end, my bike had about 20lbs of excess mud on it! Sunday wasn't so bad because there was water falling from the sky and spraying up at you as the course had basically been drowned.
Our tents blew away on Saturday night, so yet again, Ben Turner and the Clif Bar Development Team let us take over their trainers, tents, and compost for warming up.
3 comments:
Now I know where you were when I was running around trying to find you to give you your rain jacket back post-race on Sunday....good thing you didn't need it at the time.
Nice riding; you've got some power. Good luck with the rest of the season.
yo chickie. whats your email? I have some prom pictures for you (before you got kicked out by the bouncer.....). Norm ended up wearing the green dress with the poofy sleeves. He got hit on a lot. Wendy
oh dayum, dombrowski.
great site. i've just now found it and am peesed at myself for not tracking you earlier.
nice riding this year! you've been awesome from CrossVegas on ... er, well, not so much AT crossVegas ... but since then it's been starlet-central. but who could really take that race seriously?
anyway, hope you have a blast at nationals ... and be sure to let me and sabine know when you'll ever be in norcal for some riding.
we'll hook you up lodging if you need a training camp, too.
m
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