As Chicken reported on her
blog, the last minute training weekend in W Va went off without a hitch. The photo above pretty much says it all, doesn't it ?
We arrived in Lost River with enough daylight to ride on Friday, so Chicken decided to find out how bad the roads have to be in order to make my garmin fall apart. We successfully figured it out and now I'm down an SRM and a Garmin. Sigh.
Badger and Jen arrived late that night, which meant that we had to sacrifice and open a(nother) bottle of wine to and entertain each other until the wee hours of the morning. You'll note that most of the pictures we took involved wine and water bottles. Kinda makes you wonder what exactly we put in our water bottles, doesn't it ? I'm not sayin' anything, I'm just sayin'.
Despite seeing 24degrees on their way down, Robin and Jen were thrilled with the Saturday weather warm-up. Robin was so thrilled that she stripped out of her legwarmers. Only to reveal knee-high socks. We tried to talk her out of sporting them, but she resisted peer pressure. Maybe she's a trendsetter. Or maybe she loves to get jacked-up tan-lines. Meanwhile, I peeled out of my legwarmers to reveal my (borrowed from Robin) super-duper, cold-can't-stop-me-now shoe covers. A trendsetter I am not.
Speaking of super - our illustrious sponsor, Michelle from
Teaism, came out incognito to hammer with us. She tolerated us for over 3 hours, even postponing her dinner-duties to finish out the ride with us. We're not sure how dinner went for her, but we enjoyed a feast once Badger and Chicken found some ground beef ... we forgot to get the main ingredient for our taco dinner.
