And we have a winner!!!!!!

Congratulations Rick!! Last weekend my totally Radical hubby won the Cat 2 men 19-29 New York State Mountain bike Series!! We are so excited!! He's been training non-stop 7 days a week for the past year, so I'm super happy to see all his hard work finally pay off! The Series was so much fun and we made some good friends this year too! Normally I'm pretty stoked for the approaching ski season this time of year, but I have to say that I'm kinda bummed to see the cross country season end. Oh and by the way.. yours truly came in 2nd place overall for Cat 3 women 12-34! And my little friend Gili won!! Way to go girl! 12 years old and the overall winner is a great accomplishment! Thanks to the guys at the NYS MTB series for doing such a great job and to the rest of our XC crew - see ya's next year!! Great job everybody & congrats to Rick again!

Cyclocross Season is Underway

Rick raced his 3rd ever cyclocross race this past Sunday and boy did he do great! I'd say a 6th place finish out of 40 guys ain't bad for only somebody's 3rd time racing cross! And I love it!! I even got my own cowbell this time - and the picture opportunities are endless. A big thanks to the City of Newburgh in lovely Orange County NY for the use of their beautiful park as well as a great job by the NYCross guys in setting up a great course and of course how could I forget Wafles & Dinges. I have never feined for a Belgian Waffle so much in my life as I did this week! Looking forward to more cross races in the next 2 months, but first and finally we need to survive our NYS MTB series championship race this weekend at the wonderful Reidlbauer's resort in RoundTop NY. The forecast is calling for 6 inches of snow by Sunday (prime conditions for a MTB race right?). So that should call for a good story (and a good blog post). Wish us luck, I'll be lucky not do freeze to death, but Rick can clinch the championship!! Good luck Rick - beat Yandeau!!!

Sea Cliff Mini Mart Craft Fair

This past Sunday was the annual Sea Cliff Mini Mart Craft Fair. I love the mini mart and so do so many locals around here! Its always a huge blast with vendors, beer, live music & tons of people. I decided this year that I would have a booth selling my various crocheted goods ranging from headbands to hats to cowls to coasters! I did pretty good, I did have to sell my stuff rather cheap, but that's okay because it was a beautiful day and we had tons of fun!

Woodstock

I guess I never mentioned the outcome of our last mountain bike race. Well to put it mildly, I totally sucked ass. It was definitely the worst performance I've had on a bike yet, and I was really upset with the fact that I walked my bike more than I actually rode it. Sooo to let ya'll know I placed last in my category. But what really aggravates me is that this college mtb team shows up and they were good and they all raced cat 3. And the reason they do this is so they can win. Those girls should have raced cat2, but then they'd actually have to be competitive with the better riders. I'm happy to say though that Rick placed 2nd and his #1 competitor Ben placed 3rd, so Rick is still leading the series. He just needs to beat Ben in the series final next weekend at Reidlbauers and victory is his! At the least the scenery at Woodstock was pretty, so I enjoyed that part.. after the race was over of course. Better luck next time for me, but I better go out and practice.

Could it have been....

A Big Foot?? While preparing for an upcoming craft fair last night, I received a phone call from Rick urging me to immediately put on the History Channel. When I did, I was shocked to find an episode of their series MonsterQuest totally dedicated to a possible Big Foot roaming about in remote areas of upstate New York. I was dying! After all the jokes we were making about possibly being harassed by "Big Foot" that night at the Evil Lean-To, this show comes on less than a week later. I did a little researching via the all trusting Internet and stumbled across this website http://www.bfro.net/news/roundup/newyork.asp. Its a Big Foot expedition located in NYS and guess what?? The expedition is sold out and theres a waiting list! I never would have imagined that there would be a Big Foot craze in New York. But heck why not?? It makes for some interesting camp fire stories, and I guess I've got one to tell now. Next time I'm in the back country, I'll be sure to have my camera ready, just in case I see this guy strolling by