Amateur hour

So yesterday I took the day off work, loaded up the dirty from Sheboygan Specialized Epic up and headed out the door.  The first stop was at Scott's house since he had the day off as well and we went north.  North up to 9 mile that is.  Just as we were rolling into the parking lot there was our tour guide for the day, Ben Koenig.  We rolled down the window and yelled at him to get off the road as we blew past him.  Taking the show off the road was definitely the plan for the day, even though mother nature decided to make it rain on our parade!  That lady is not nice!  Either way we headed out on the trails and the day was set in on the 2nd corner when Ben decided to show us how slippery the new fallen wet leaves were and fell over!  Oops.  We slipped and slid the entire day!  Guess we can chalk it up as a skills day, or the way we were looking, lack of skills!  I then added to our amateur ways by not changing my tire that I flatted 4 times on Sunday and decided to make it 5!  I decided to put a tube in it and the tube was bad!  I think that thing has been on the bike almost all year!  I ended up riding the flat in and luckily had another tube in the truck! After fixing it we headed back out and had this great idea to ride up Ho Chi Min, or however you want to spell it.  That did not work at all.  There was not enough traction to get up it so we bailed on that idea in dreams of coming back to it and riding down it!  Sounds like a good idea!  If it is too slippery to go up, then change your route and come down it?  Hmmm? Who made that decision!  By the time the day was done we hit every trail out there and have some more bruises to show for our adventure! 

So after riding all day what better way to spend a wasted day then going to a bike shop!  We stopped at Rib Mountain Cyclery for a while, had coffee, looked at bikes, and talked a lot!  A lot!  All that talking made us thirsty, hungry, and then really thirsty so we made our way to Red Eye Brewery for pizza and beer! Mmmmm. 

We then finished off our day visiting with Brenda and making sure she was doing well.  She was up and about with the use of her walker and was actually out in the barn.  Think she just wanted to be around the bikes. Either way she is healing well and seemed in really good spirits.  We wished her a speedy recovery and cannot wait to see our cheerleader back on the trails and at the races!! 

After a day like that, I learned one thing!  I need to take more days off!!!