in two suitcases, and ended up fully built out! Riding here we come!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thor Built Bikes
in two suitcases, and ended up fully built out! Riding here we come!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Despite almost missing our connecting flight in Denver (as we were deboarding our Portland flight we heard an announcement that our Durango flight was going to take off 25 minutes EARLY!!) -we arrived in Durango early to clear skies. All our baggage (and bikes!) made the flight too. Gorgeous, clear evening skies at the Durango airport.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Good 'ol Law School Days
Thor just found this picture floating around in his inbox - it was probably taken at some point between 2004-2006 - or around the time Thor was in law school and actually had time to fish during the day.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
This is Thor and I at our dog park. Laaazy Sunday evening. Thor is annoyed because I made him stop playing 'golf' with the chuckit to come take this picture. Doesn't he have a lovely face? ;)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Sandy Ridge Spring Brake Super Ds
The past two weekends Thor and I have gone out to race the Sandy Ridge Spring Brake Super D series near Welches, OR. Mom has been training to be a mtn. bike race official - so she has been out there as well, and it has been a lot of fun to see her at the races! Thor and I both did really well in our races, and it was fun to get some downhill practice in - I can't wait to do more later this summer. Thor got 3rd in his first race, but broke his chain in the second race and had to do the entire race chainless. This resulted in a slower overall time for him (slow as in I actually beat him!!!), but he still had a great time. I won both of my races (women's cat 2 - and for those of you who think I am sandbagging I'm waiting until I do an actual super D course before I decide to upgrade for Super Ds. Sandy Ridge is like a XC course pointed down hill - there are no ledges or gaps to negotiate). I am; however, upgrading to Cat 1 for the next XC race, but that's not until the beginning of May.
The weather was cold both Sundays: the first sunday it was pouring rain almost the entire time. I made the mistake of riding up to the start line (about a 35 min. ride uphill) with Thor for his start time - even though I didn't go off for almost another hour after him. I was soooo cold by the time my race started that I ended up racing in my rain coat (you can see my pink coat in the pictures). I learned my lesson this week and did a pre-ride of the course when I first got there in the morning, and then cozied up in the car with my book for about 1.5 hours before it was time to ride up for my start. MUCH better the second time around.
Here are some pictures of the two of us at the races.
A couple of pictures from the April 3 race from Ruandy Albisuarez Photography:
This great picture of Thor going down hill in the third race (4/3) comes compliments of Tim Zimmerman Photography:
Here are some additional pictures from Ruandy Albisuarez Photography for the first race on March 27:
Thor found another two of me on someone's flickr feed as well:
The weather was cold both Sundays: the first sunday it was pouring rain almost the entire time. I made the mistake of riding up to the start line (about a 35 min. ride uphill) with Thor for his start time - even though I didn't go off for almost another hour after him. I was soooo cold by the time my race started that I ended up racing in my rain coat (you can see my pink coat in the pictures). I learned my lesson this week and did a pre-ride of the course when I first got there in the morning, and then cozied up in the car with my book for about 1.5 hours before it was time to ride up for my start. MUCH better the second time around.
Here are some pictures of the two of us at the races.
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| Mom & I near the finish line after I finished on Sunday. |
This great picture of Thor going down hill in the third race (4/3) comes compliments of Tim Zimmerman Photography:
Here are some additional pictures from Ruandy Albisuarez Photography for the first race on March 27:
Thor found another two of me on someone's flickr feed as well:
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Piggly Wiggly Weekend Ride
Last weekend (I know, I know - late AGAIN!!) the weather was terrible (as it has been all 'spring' so far). Thor and I were determined to go biking, however, and so we ignored the NOAA radar report and headed out to the gorge to ride anyways.
We rode about 6 six laps out at Syncline - which had both of us thoroughly pooped by the end. It poured on us the entire time, and was probably only about 38 degrees. Not exactly the best ride we've ever had, but we decided it was good training.
A couple of years ago Thor bought me this great jacket (a Sugoi that I don't think they make anymore) - and it finally bit the bust on this ride. As Thor put it: "it molted." It has been getting little holes here and there, but I think this ride was finally just too much for it, and the pouring rain just disintegrated what was left of the shell. R.I.P. Sugoi shell - this jacket hit the trash before we left Hood River.
Here is what it looked like as we approached Hood River. It never got better.
We rode about 6 six laps out at Syncline - which had both of us thoroughly pooped by the end. It poured on us the entire time, and was probably only about 38 degrees. Not exactly the best ride we've ever had, but we decided it was good training.
A couple of years ago Thor bought me this great jacket (a Sugoi that I don't think they make anymore) - and it finally bit the bust on this ride. As Thor put it: "it molted." It has been getting little holes here and there, but I think this ride was finally just too much for it, and the pouring rain just disintegrated what was left of the shell. R.I.P. Sugoi shell - this jacket hit the trash before we left Hood River.
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