Worked at
the shop on Saturday selling light after light after light in preparation for the Cedar Valley Trail Festival night ride that evening. Seriously, we sold A LOT of lights. I did not participate in the ride itself but I rode down to the trail with Amy and my parents and we watched all of the people ride by. Lots of people with glow stick and such all over their bikes to make them stick out. Some interesting observations include the mass amounts of seatposts that are too high or low, lack of helmets, low air pressure in tires, and others. Crazy stuff I tell ya.
Sunday was a most adventuroud day really. First thing on tap was a gravel ride to Camp Ingawanis with Houlihan and
Kerkove. I just wasn't quite feeling it on the way up but figured things would come around when we arrived at camp. During the first lap I found myself off the back a few times and that was a bit frustrating considering how great I was feeling on Thursday night. We decided to hit up another lap before taking off which turned out to be more than I needed. My timing was a little off through a set of turns and I ended up kissing a small tree. Nothing major but definately a sign that my MTB mojo was not in it during the ride. Cruised the gravel back to Waterloo watching Houlihan and Kerkove fight out the sprints. Pretty good entertainment!!
After I was showered, Amy and I made our way to Target to look at some "baby stuff", doing that more and more lately. Didn't find anything there so we made our way to "Sprawl-Mart...land of inconsiderates". I actually had a lady run into me with her shoulder while going through the dairy section and she said nothing to me. I hate that store. We finished up with our things and then headed home where I was sitting on the couch when there was a loud crashing noise outside. Turned around to look out the window and saw a minivan had rear-ended a SUV and there was a kid, about 12-13 years old actually getting out of the van while it was still rolling. I quickly made my way outside to make sure everyone was okay and see if any of them needed attention. Everyone seemed okay except that the driver of the van was still a little surprised at what happened and she was a little scared which was understandable. Once we had everything under control, one of my neighbors and I directed traffic until the police arrived. It was pretty crazy for about an hour or so but not a huge deal. I am definately glad that I feel calm in these types of situations because it seems that a lot of people either don't know what to do or don't want to get involved. I hope everything turns out okay for all of them.
After everything was cleared up by the PD and FD we went to my parents' house for lasagna dinner...oh yea. Delicious!! Man do I love pasta.
Today was an easy 30 mile spin with Kerkove to get the legs back to their snappy feeling in prepartaion for tomorrow night's group ride. For some reason it will be my last group ride before the
24 Hours of Afton, weird how that works. Kisch says that I need to get my schedule fixed so that I don't miss so many rides. What to do, what to do.