Friday I packed my backpack, bike, and extra wheels and I hiked to the Van Buren Street Exit. It is there I met up with a band of travelers know as Team Muleterro. We headed to Kalispell to brother Mule ERock’s brother’s house. Get that?
We arrived and was bunked out in a pop up that suddenly ran out of heat half way through the night. I decided to challenge myself and slept under the stars. The temps ran into the teens and the next morning it took me a while to thaw out.
My team mates were fitted with earplugs to combat the noise of the heater slept just fine and shook me awake just in time for some yummy waffles and real maple syrup (even though not from Vermont). It was around 7:58 am when the first waffle showed up in front of me. Yum.
The Woodland Park Cyclocross race went off just fine with the course staying pretty much the same except for some extra twists and turns on the grass at this beautiful park in Kalispell. At 4:08 the race done, we stopped for burritos, and went back to the house we were staying at. I got 6th or 7th. Sten doesn’t know how he did. Rich says he did poorly. Julie and Jen got 1st and 2nd. I stunk!
Around 8:41 there was a contingent going to the hot tub. I contemplated but finally succumb to their please to hit the tub. It was ok although uncomfortable raising the body temperature to extreme levels. We cooled of with ice cream.
While Lance was twittering about his preparations for the Ride for the Roses I was making a Perpetium breakfast the next morning. I would not have human food this time. It paid off to because while my results sucked I did feel good in the race and was able to go hard and enjoy it. We almost did not make the race because my PDA had me convinced that it was daylight savings time. Thank god for Jenny who questioned this and got us back on track again.
The weekend completed with a trip to Bridge Pizza for happy hour. This is a wonderful hour in which you get a pint of KHouse beer when you buy two delicious slices of pizza. It was good pizza too.
I wonder what the mules are doing right now?
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