Halloween Ridge Ridge 07

Here are a few shots of me enjoying the ride!

Alan and Jimi waiting for shots to be taken!

Someone hung a disco ball at the top of the Hill of Truth for the 12 hour race. The ball was still there last night. We did not climb the HOT though, we came up Rainbow. This shot does not due the HOT justice on how steep it is.


Jimi and Alan again. Alan is on his new Ferris that Smap got for him FREE.... Smap warrantied his old Fisher Rig and Alan lucked out getting a new Ferris since the new 08 Rigs are backordered.

Jimi following the ride. She cleans up nice! She looks much younger than her years and acts younger for that matter. Gotta love Ms. Flynt!

All of us waiting for the random guy to shoot a photo of us.

More waiting.

Me hanging with Alan and Mr. Jones after riding. Our friend's tool truck makes for an odd background. This is also a photo of Alan's new Fisher.

Just a quick blog to show some shots a friend took at the Ridge last night. This will be one our last "Wednesday Night Rides" until next spring. Sad times.

I met up with my friends Jimi Flint (a close friend who introduced Smap and me), Karen Clemments, Alan Carnell, Jeff Murray (Karen's fiance'), and a few others who joined us along the way. It was a perfect night for riding our favorite local trails. I will surely miss my Wednesday night fix.

Thanks to my friend Karen for making us stop to take the photos (even though you had some random guy take quite a few of the shots).

I will surely try to get out right after school for a quick lap here and there. One plus to being a teacher!

Cheers!

9th Annual 12 Hours of Haw Ridge

Here is a tiny photo of me coming finishing my 2nd lap coming off of Low Gap, which is a crazy fun decent. The 12 Hours of Haw Ridge was a blast this year! My women's team (The Menstrual Cycles) had a great race! We got second place behind a semi pro/pro team of ladies out of Chattanooga. My lap times were a lot faster than I thought they would be. My whole team really did well.

Smap did an impressive nine laps on his single speed. Next year he is promiseing to do more. I am sure he will too.

Unfortunately, I did not have my stupid camera at the race because I was having technical difficulties with it. I will still try to find more photos of us at the race. The best part of the race were all of our friends being there. I have never had so much fun. Ippon had a good time too.... Each year we lose him while he goes from camp to camp begging for food. This year though, he had to hang in the Element quite a bit. He was limping (he will be 11 in a few weeks), so I didn't want him to wear himself out too much.

We all had a good time and our team even won Thompson goods for our second place finish.

Here is a link of some professional photos taken of all the racers at the 12 hour. I wish I had some of the field where everyone partied. It was a HUGE party this year. I had too much fun actually.

http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/thumbpage.aspx?e=3229978

We can't wait till next year!!!!

Rach