Great weekend

New Ride

Got me a new toy!!! I picked up a cross bike last week from brother defur. So I guess that means I threw my hat ino the cyclocross racing. The race of PAIN!!!! Bring it BABY!!!! Maybe this will keep things interesting this winter.
Team New Balance will be showing up for an ADV Race in chattanooga on Oct 20th. So I have had to start running again and paddling a lil bit. This will be good training for the 12 hours of Hill of Truth. I will be teaming up for the 4some this year. I think we should do alright, got some pretty quick guys lined up. But I will be the only one going SS, which may be getting a new wheelset in the next couple of weeks.
I am enjoying the cross bike alot. I did an epic ride on saturday, then sunday left from the house and rode to Concord and back. It is a different ride on tight singletrack, but alot of fun. Did a run yesterday morning then last night did hill repeats at the Blvd. OUCH!!!
Flying out in the morning for a little R and R in michigan. Going to see my best buddy and play some golf. Then take in the Michigan and Notre Dame game, see which team wants to go 1-2 on the season first. Be safe!!!

Gotta love East TN....

Mr. Adam Campbell snap this photo today in Morristown......Classy..notice the sticker

Rode from the house, out the greenway and along the waterfront. Tail-gaters were set up all along the way, as Drew and I worked our way to the south the Knox trails. While most of Knoxville is watching college football and getting pumped up about some orange colored football team, we put down an epic ride in our own backyard.I enjoy football season as much as the next guy, but a game is just much more enjoyable after a long ride. And todays ride was about four hours of ride time, and we were gone for about 5 hours. Bearden->Lyon's Bend->Cherokee Boulevard->Third Creek->Waterfront->Cross the river at John Sevier->Ijams greenway->Meade's Quarry->Forks of the River->The Hann's Property->Forks of the River-> Ijams->Island Homes->Downtown->Fort Sanders->Third creek->Sutherland->Harpers->Home.

**stole images and write up from http://harvesttheride.blogspot.com/ **

What a EPIC ride..without a doubt top 3 rides ever. Alot of fun, different terrain all day. It was refreshing to go on ride from the shop. There is endless amounts of potential for this area. Will be back soon!!! Now it's time to drink some cold ones and watch some football....

Back at it..

Found some pics from the Poker Run adv race. Oh sooooo close to an overall win, but yet so far away. I have been on the bike 5 out of the last 6 days. This morning met up with Thomas, Eric, and John for a lil SS beat down. We climbed just about everything and went on alot of good technical trails. Overall real good ride. I think we rode for about 4 hours. Today is exactly what I needed, to get my ass back in shape. I plan on riding this whole weekend, road ride tommorrow and maybe hit the parkway on monday.

Good couple days of riding in triple digit weather.

Golf tourney this weekend in lexington...maybe picking one of these up soon http://vassagocycles.com/jabberwocky.html If there good enough for http://duckmansworld.blogspot.com/ there good enough for me.

Not been training much lately..work--work--travel--work..got out last night and did a 2:30 hour mtb ride with defur and mark.straped the lights on for a while. I relized i am just a lil out of shape. but hopefully this will re-kindle my ass. We are going to do 1 or 2 adv races later in the year and 12 hours of haw ridge. I think i took off about 2-3 weeks, this heat just sucks.

Posted some pics from the Old time fiddlers convention a few weeks back. Tas and rod performed a couple of times. They did really good. Tiffers , kim also performed with them and in the folk solo division. Great weekend!!