Keystone's last weekend :(

We headed out to Keystone today for the last Saturday of the season, it actually closes on Monday....fingers are crossed that they extend their season a little longer. It was a perfect day, great riding, awesome people to hang out with and more importantly no one got hurt. Unfortunately, Cynthia lost her brand new goggles out on Helter/Skelter...I think that was the only major carnage of the whole day, except for a few flats that Cynthia & Dave had.

We all rode together on the 1st run but decided to split up in smaller groups to maximize our time, I find that a group of 4 riders is the perfect size group. So Cynthia & Dave went off together and me, Dan, Ken & Dave did some runs together.

Cynthia rode the bridges on Paid in Full which is a huge accomplishment! And she cleaned the Cowboy Up rock garden twice! Way to go! So much progression in just 3 weeks! After falling so hard and getting such a massive bruise on her side last week I knew it would be so good for her to hit the rock garden again and clean it. I think she said she cried because she was so happy! Totally awesome and I'm so proud of her!

Dan on the 2nd rock drop on Skelter


Dave on the same rock drop on Skelter


Ken on the airplane jump off of Jam Rock


Dan on the airplane jump off of Jam Rock


Me on the corkscrew on East Forest




Chuck on the corkscrew


Double click on the picture below to see all of then


We're sleeping in tomorrow (actually Dan is sleeping on the couch right now) and probably doing a ride out at Golden Gate National Forest and then heading over to Dave's house for a BBQ and to meet Cynthia's sister. Nothing better than riding and then hanging out with friends :)

On a side note....Dan told me that J Lo rented a bike from UBikes last week. Maybe there will be some pics of her cruising around Boulder in an upcoming US Magazine :)

-Kim

It's gonna be a good day!

The weather for Keystone tomorrow looks good :)

Saturday
Partly sunny. A 10 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 67 to 77.

Crowds will be low because of the Sol Vista G3 race going on, meaning all the racer boys will be elsewhere!

-Kim

Why are Thursday's so great?

Because I can have a cocktail after work :)

I don't drink during the week because it makes it really really really really hard for me to wake up in the morning but since I drive in on Friday's I can sleep in and have a drink after work. Kinda funny because back in Michigan, I drank every night. I would drive to work, ride a trail after work for about 2 hrs, go to the restaurant/bar with everyone and drink, get home about 2, sleep for a few hours and repeat. My diet consisted of coffee, peanut butter (had to get my protein somewhere), Diet Coke, Sour Patch Kids and beer....I was skinny but not very healthy.

When we move to Boulder my commute will be all on bike paths and only take 15 minutes, it will be harder to refrain from the cocktails after work, especially since we'll be within walking distance to all the bars and restaurants. Gotta get my cruiser up and running so we'll be able to cruise everywhere :)

I'm meeting with our new landlord to sign the rental agreement and nail down a move in date tomorrow. We're hoping for Sept 20th so we can have some time to get the old place cleaned up. I'm also hoping to convince her to rip up the carpet in the kitchen (of all places....gross!) and put in something else. Who puts carpet in the kitchen?!

My friend Tracy is off to Whistler today! Have fun Tracy & Jason!!! I can't wait to see all their pictures. Dan and I are planning a trip out there next August and I'm just dying to see what all the hype is all about!

Dan and I are going to Keystone on Saturday to get some DH in before they close for the season. Unfortunately he has to work on Monday :( but we'll get a nice ride in on Sunday after we sleep in. And maybe I'll ride down to U Bikes on Monday and meet him for his ride home, or maybe I'll just be lazy!

Cheers, Kim

Keystone on Saturday

We headed up to Keystone on Saturday. I finally got to meet Carey, who I met through my blog. She's an amazing technical rider.....she nailed the switchback first time on Helter! I'm looking forward to many more riding days with her!

Cary on the Helter switchback


Dan had no problem with the switchback either


Carey on the entry of Skelter


Craig on the entry of Skelter



Unfortunately the clouds rolled in around 2 and there were rumors the lifts were going to get shut down while we were having lunch so we hurried up to get back out there. Things started off good, then Cynthia crashed pretty hard in the rockgarden on Cowboy Up...she took a pretty hard fall on the rocks but was okay to push on. We hit TNT and after Fuzzy Bunny, we stopped to regroup and 2 guys came up and asked if we were riding with a girl in a red and black jersey, which was Carey. They said she took a really hard fall off the ladder bridge midway down TNT. They said she seemed okay but was sitting down trying to figure out what had happened. Cynthia stopped and helped her and her husband Craig immediately started riding back up to see what had happened. When they got back down to us, she wasn't doing too good...she took the fall straght to her chin. She had memory loss and was really dizzy so I told the rest of the people we were with to ride on and I would stay and get her down. I wanted to get down to the lifts and have the patrol come get her but she said she could at least ride the access road down. We got her down and had her checked out by the medics, they were confident that she didn't need to go to the emergency room but they told her to take it easy and that she would have to be woken up every couple of hours just in case....lucky her :(

Here's the damage



Unfortunately we didn't really get to ride with Cynthia and Dave since they ran late in the morning and got there after us but we got to hang out with them for a bit after we were done riding. Dave made it down the triple step on Wild Thing and Cynthia rolled the big rock after the triple step! Nice job!

I think we'll be up there again next weekend, Dan's brother has the condo and will be up there for the Sol Vista G3 race and our friend Aaron will be up there as well for the Winter Park race. So why not stay up there all weekend and ride Keystone :)

More pics here



-Kim

Someone Please Pinch Me!

Ever since we found out that Dan would be working at University Bikes in Boulder we had our hearts set on finding a place to rent in Boulder instead of way out in Lafayette where we currently are. We know we can't afford to buy in Boulder so we decided to NOT continue our search to buy a house where we could afford it.

It's been tough and we've come to the realization the finding what we want, a 2 bedroom house with a fenced yard and a garage that it pet friendly is hard. These places are few and far between in our price range and go quickly when they come up. I look diligently at Craigslist, I check it about every 1/2 hour for new listings and I subscribed to the Daily Camera's email alert for rentals in Boulder.

We both got frustrated and finally decided last night that Dan's commute in wasn't all that bad and I've been dealing with it this long, so what's wrong with just staying put. Fine....we both decided.

When I got to work this morning there was an email alert from the Daily Camera about a new house listing that had EVERYTHING we were looking for and it was in our price range. I immediately called and apologized when the woman answered when I realized how early it was...she didn't care at all, I told her I was just so excited I didn't even check to see what time it was. She told me where it was and we set up an appointment to see it at noon. After doing a mapquest on it, I realized it was literally just blocks away from UBikes and called Dan to see if he could sneak out for a few to go see if with me....he said for this, no problem.

So...things could not have gone more perfectly! She didn't want students renting it so she was more than pleased that we're both working folks. She was even more pleased that we didn't mind that it was an older house with "character" and not the most pleasant looking inside. It has a huge bedroom, a smaller bedroom, a bathroom...no tub but I can deal, a huge garage for storage and an even bigger backyard. It's at the base of the foothills and we have absolutely stunning views from the backyard....there's even a fire pit :)

She actually asked us how she could get us to rent the place!!!! Turns out that her tenant isn't out until mid September and she wants to fix some things after he's gone and wouldn't be able to rent it out until Oct....well, that was just perfect for us since our lease isn't up until the end of September! Please pinch me!!! She even said we could install a doggie door in the back door since Patch loves his so much.

So....we got the place!!!! I can't believe the luck and I can't believe how perfect it worked out and how perfect this place is for us. Dan is literally blocks away from UBikes, probably like a 2 minute bike ride and I'm about 15 minutes away from work and I can take the Boulder Creek Path all the way there!!! We can walk to downtown for dinner and we won't be far away from our friends anymore....I couldn't be happier.

I'm still in disbelief!

I need some champagne....TGIF!!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!

-Kim

Meet Buck

He comes around our office once a week to sit by our window under the tree's.

He then takes a pee


And walks off like nothing ever happened


I think he enjoys all the attention he gets....

-Kim

What happens after 36 hrs of rain?

The clouds lift

And then you see all the snow.....in August!!!!




This equates to a lazy weekend with sleeping in to almost noon everyday and staying off the bikes and lots of running....man I'm SORE! And Dan's parents are in town so we had/have other things to do....

-Kim