Is it Friday yet?

This weekend was kind of a downer. Dan had to work all weekend since the store was having a huge sale and it was their grand opening as a Trek Concept store. They had a nice party at the shop on Friday with food and beer...unfortunately, the food was gone in about 10 min so we didn't get any. Larry the Trek rep was kind enough to walk over to Taco Bell after all the people left and fed all the hungry employee's who had been standing around for about 14 hrs.

Saturday was super nice with temps in the 70's but I had a ton of running around to do and after taking Patch for a walk, the wind had picked up and getting on the bike to push through the wind wouldn't have been fun so I just went for a long run instead. We stayed in because Dan was beat and margarita's went down a bit too fast and we were out cold probably before 10pm.

Sunday, we were supposed to go on a ride before the shop opened at noon but we woke up to a couple of inches of snow on the ground...big bummer. After Dan left for work, I decided to take Patch up to West Mag for a hike. Man, the snow was so deep and heavy that not even snowshoes made the hike enjoyable. The trail was not visible at all and it looked like no one had been up there in months...I ended up going in circles a few times and decided to call it a day after finding Patch huddled under a tree shaking. He couldn't move without sinking in the snow leg deep and he didn't want to move anymore.

I was in bed around 9:30 last night....ready for next weekend already. And there was another couple inches on the ground when I woke up...grrrr, not a good way to start the week.

Luckily the weather should get better by the end of the week and we'll hopefully hit the trails again, the talk of doing some shuttle runs up in Ft. Collins was even mentioned!

-Kim

Spring is here!

Another awesome 70 degree day yesterday! It was a bit windy but who cares...it was 70! Dan didn't have to work so when I got home we got the bikes out and set out for Marshall Mesa. I love this ride because we can ride from our house, ride mostly on open space trails and dirt roads, hit Marshall Mesa and do a nice loop on some singletrack. It's a good 2hr ride and by the end, I'm always ready to get off my bike and have a beer.

Woke up this morning to rain, which is good because it's not snow! And the rain will help melt the snow!

I got my haircut again yesterday, got rid of the boooooring bob. Mom, I think Jimmy and I have almost the same haircut now :) I hate posting pics of myself because I take the absolutely worst pictures, but this one is for my mom since she's in Michigan and I'm in Colorado.



And sadly this is the only pic I have of my little bro....mom, you're slacking!

-Kim

New Tattoo

Well, not really. Just a stupid move on my part, not paying attention as usual and I ended up going off the trail. Only problem is that off the trail was a canyon and as my tires were slipping off the side of the trail, I had to lean really far right and just ended sliding down the side of the canyon a little while the chainring dug into my calf.

Beside that happening, we had an awesome day at Devil's Backbone. We went out with our friend Chuck again and ended up with a 3hr ride. I rode some ledges that I wasn't able to clear the last time we were there on the SS and Dan had a great time on his new Fisher Superfly 29er. He couldn't stop raving about it yesterday after riding Hall and insists that I have to give it a try....I think he's fallin' for the 29er thing....

Happy riders



Hike a bike


The boys


Crusty


Hopefully we'll be able to get out and ride again tomorrow after Easter breakfast at his brother's house but it's snowing right now...so my fingers are crossed that it doesn't stick.

And I'm going to try and get out Tuesday and do the Tuesday Night Girl's Ride.

-Kim

Date Night

Dan decided to not go to Sunlight for the race this weekend...just too much driving.

So, he is meeting me after work at Hall Ranch! We're going to get a ride in and have dinner and beer here. A perfect date night :)

-Kim

An Awesome Night For A Ride

Dan got home early last night so we headed out on the XC bikes for a spin on the open space trails near our house. We got to the point where we usually turn around and head back but we still had a lot of daylight left so we decided to go further, then further and further until we found ourselves at Marshall Mesa. With the sun just starting to set behind the foothills, we decided to go further and do our normal loop there. It was just one of those days we just couldn't get off our bikes, it felt so good to be out after work (a rarity these days), in shorts, just riding! We ended up getting caught in the dark on the way home but since we were just riding open space trails that weren't in the woods or trees and with an almost full moon popping out it wasn't that bad.

I love spring, the time change, the warmer weather....just feels good.

Today it's supposed to be in the 60's and I hope to get an hour ride in at lunch on the CX bike but their calling for high winds in Boulder (gee, imagine that) so we'll see. If it's too windy, I'll just go for a run.

Dan's going to Sunlight Fri/Sat for a snow bike race but I decided to stay home and have the house to myself. Hopefully the weather won't be as crappy as predicted on Saturday so I can get a nice long ride in somewhere.

Happy first day of spring today! It only gets better from here on out :) Maybe tonight a full moon ride....

The pic isn't one that we took, I just found it and thought it looked like the perfect warm spring sunset.

-Kim

Patch's Bad Habit

So this is what Patch likes to do EVERYDAY when I let him out when I get home from work. He rolls around in the dry grass and gets it all over him...this is dry Colorado grass that just sticks to his fur no matter what. It takes me about 15 minutes to get it out!

I think he does it on purpose just to get brushed....

-Kim

Happy St Patrick's Day

From our beer to yours!