do i need to?

Write up Ice Weasels?  The video pretty much says it all.

Got there, hung out, rode a lap, heckled, raced, had fun, stayed sober, drove home.

Oh and had a blast.

Was fun.

Great course.  First pre-ride it was wet mud.  By the time the single speed rolled off the mud had thickened and stiffened, like over worked whipped cream.  No longer just oozed out of the way, you had to power through it.Which meant my tall gear choice was made even worse.  It was fine on the early lap but two races and two hours later w/o any extra rain meant I was in for a world of hurt.

Raced in the Orange suit too.  Why not.  I had to jump extra high for the re-mounts but it was okay.  Two laps in the black bike single speed changed gears. Not in the good direction.  The short bit of der cable through the barrel adjuster was not a good move.  Oops.  Suddenly it went from being crazy low RPM torque to are you fucking kidding me torque.  I ducked into the pits and grabbed the white bike.

Honestly I think the Rocket Rons on the Tubeless set up hooked up amazingly.  I had no issues riding pretty much anywhere or turning or what not.  Maybe i wasn't going fast enough but fuckinghell i don't think i touched my brakes more than once per lap.  You slowed down so fast when you stopped pedaling brakes were just kind of pointless.

The PDX tires worked well too.  Hooked up nicely enough.

The start. Oh the start.  I lined up on the inside (dumb move #1) but hell i was lined up behind MARK!  NBD.  Except it was. He missed his pedal and stopped. I think i counted 20 people in front of me before i hit the turn (using photos) maybe more.  Mark obviously had no problem with this.  He was leading by the time he cross the finish line to start his second lap.  Me? It put me into PASS PEOPLE ON THE STRAIGHT and then try to work up and make up deficit.  Didn't work super great.

But hey - it was a fucking BLAST.

Trying to survive the week.  Trying to make it through this coming weekend.  I'm also toying with (not very seriously though) the idea of getting up wicked early and going up for the single speed race.  BUT I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get back in time.

Still fighting the backleft lower not quite hip thing but it is definitely getting better...  the list of stuff i need to be working on right now is long, but I'm tired and just want to sleep. Brain can't even recall half of what i wanted to write about at the moment.

Oh - right - these http://imgur.com/a/LfwIu I want a pair...  i hear good things about them...  well not the home made ones but you know, those free ride whatever you call em rollers.

Long ride is already shaping up in my head, mentally going through what will need to happen to get the bike ready for it, weather window watching time. Also, I suppose I need a destination.  Maybe Firefly won't be quite out of the old one and not quite into the new one, (and then hit barrington coffee roasters) it has been a while since I've been up Dot Ave.  New London is one of the other location destinations for the round trip this year. Might need some Solobreak advice on alternates to Bay this time around. I desperately need something else on the horizon to focus on goal wise, road racing just doesn't really do it for me right now, hoping that these long rides do the trick (again).

I did manage to read The Hobbit, I remember it as a long book.  But yeah, not terribly long i guess.  Still a good story, kind of wish it was longer hey oh well.

this ploy to stay awake isn't working. eyelids keep drooping closed. Fingers continue to type w/o guidance, words seem to be coming out okay at the moment...

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