Enjoying SoCal

Loaded up and headed out of the armpit of California to mountains of fun.Scott and I signed up to do the 12 Hours of Temecula as a coed duo team. Even without a race resume Big Wheel Racing let me join their team. Thanks!

Scott, maintaining the title of best husband ever, let me race the Walt (again!) while he rode the Surly. We brought my Enduro just in case I felt the need for gears at some point. Although when a bike looks this good....and climbs so well....and there's only 2 teams in our race category....

Jeni, thank you for the BWR jersey loan! It's freshly laundered and on it's way back to CO.

Ohhhhh. Look at all the fast people.

And the fun people who are also fast. It was great to meet so many of Scott's friends and teammates. A fun and welcoming and smiling group of people.

Dave and Yumi, the t-shirts are very cool! Thanks for the hospitality and the beer and the wrenching! If we get into SSWC09 then we'll see you in Durango later this year.

All told, we each rode 6 laps, but since a few of the laps we rode together instead of as a relay, our final count was less than 12. I managed all the laps on the single speed and am more then a little surprised since that was greater than 50 miles.

We took the geo-tour route home. Scott had done some research and found a place with cool rock outcrops that was adjacent to the San Andreas fault zone. Reminscent of the Boulder Flatirons, but with less iron and therefore not the rusty color. Made me a bit melancholy for CO. We don't know where/when we're going to end up living but the front range of CO is on the (very very) short list.

In the meantime, go north young man. Further north. North of the 49th north.

How did we end up here again?