2010 Summary of Progress on Goals (see separate entries for event details)

• -Find a way to not work so much-changed my job to contracting 3 months at a time. This leaves open a lot of free time during the year & still pay the bills!!!
• -Expedition/Unsupported Ride-pushed to 2011. Not sure yet which one/where.
• -A few Hundies-Cohutta, Lumberjack, Wilderness done. See summaries in blog.
  Cohutta-stormy, considered DNF but started again....was out long time...12hr.
  Lumberjack-great time, fastest 100 ever @9:46 for 9th place out of 30 girls.
  Wilderness-course was faster across the board, I got 45 min better than previous years, 9th place out of 16 girls.
• -Double XXC weekends-agh, not so good here. Really only 3 so far and one doesn't REALLY count as XXC:-(
• -Tour de Burg-Finished!! And did shave my head during and after!!!
• -6 Hours of Power (6HOP)-defended Coed Duo title with JP. Had 2nd fastest women lap times, with Vicky Barclay fastest lap, and RyDog Palermo with third fastest.
• -Michaux Curse of Dark Hollow-40 miler-3rd out of 6 women starters(?)
• -Stage event this fall-decided on the inaugural Trans North GA MTB Adventure (TNGA)
  This was a timed test run, & a super route!! Finished in 4:12:xx

DirtRag Punk Bike Enduro

So....it's that time of year again.

Time to attempt to ride MTB in some mucky, yucky quad & moto trails and some barely used old doubletrack stuff....in unpredictable weather....and wearing some god awful punk get up.

This year's trails and loop didn't hesitate to please those that came out.....just as unrideable as usual and the weather gave us some freezing cold to go along with it. Trails were a mirage of frozen puddles, mud as slick as oil, and DH full of rutted water runs.

We decide we haven't utilized the tandum to it's fullest this year, so we decide to haul it out for the event. We most usually choose to ride this thing on trails that are quite forgiving......otherwise JP ends up in the doghouse for quite some time after the ride:-) But this day, I knew if I said 'yeah' to tandum, I had to actually agree to stay on the seat for whatever the driver was wanting to do. If we ended up walking all day, I am pretty sure I would have been sent to the doghouse.

The tandum is often referred to as 'the red sledd'...therefore we decided to use it as a 'sled' as part of our costume and be the Grinch & Max the Dog. This worked out ok:

Overall, everyone did some walking on the loops, but we attempted and rode a lot of mucked up stuff a little better than we would have thought. The Red Sledd can surprisingly barrel though like a tank. Other than a few DH that I totally put the nixay on by jumping off the bike, I think JP was proud of my braveness today:-) & happy that each loop led back to the beer. I see a tandum MTB hundie someday.....lol...that is a joke.

thanks DR for another good punk bike on the books! (dirtragmag.com)