Clean Cut

So, for some reason I felt the need to race Gloucester Grind with a 'stache... fu man chu style... take the goatee and make a nekkid chin kinda 'stache. Drove out with Skinny Whitey and C-burke to the 18 mile race of technical not so funness. ThomP was there freaking KILLING it. That dude is flat out unbelievable. Mad mad mad mad props to his skillz! I haven't seen the full results. But for the first time in a very long time I got called to up to collect my winnings post race. Yes. GeWilli won. In the big guy category. And so I picked up a few beers with the prize money on the way to the farm and woke up this morning and cleaned up the face. I look kinda funny according to the youngest.

But anyway. That's about it. Bike is still caked in stinky black mucky mud. Shoes are still uncleaned. It is all a mess. But hey. It was fun. My ribs only got worse on the left side. Right side feels fine, left is about 10x worse. Only ate one tree with a shoulder, only pitched the Mantra into a foot deep pit of mud (burried the bars) once - it still shifted after that... lots of running, but everyone seemed to be running stuff. Everyone except maybe ThomP. I would think maybe that as much as my 26" wheels were getting stuck in gaps between roots and rocks that maybe a 29" would be a faster choice for that course. It took me forever to finish (it seemed). Most of the 3rd lap was survival mode.

All good.

Saturday the golf got filled with biodiesel. all biodiesel. 3.91/gallon. 60-70 cents a gallon less than the petroleum based stuff is selling for around here. And it is stuff made from waste veggie oil (made into biodiesel not just burning the oil). So the initial purpose has been served (to cook food) and now it is being re-purposed for the car. Nice thing is ya don't need to do anything to a diesel vehicle to get it to run on biod. Just put it in the tank.

finally an environmental action that costs less cash outlay than doing the wrong thing...

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