What to do? Here's a picture from my test drive!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Challenger
My first car, it was a 74 'Cuda. Candy apple Red, with black flames. 318 automatic with a slap stick shifter. I loved that car but sold it when Chad was born in 83. It wasn't a good family car. Now, 25 years later, there's the new car, the Challenger. I really love it and would really like it, but it's 50,000 bucks. It has a Hemi, very nice lines and awesome interior. Modeled after the original.
What to do? Here's a picture from my test drive!
What to do? Here's a picture from my test drive!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Border Battle
We're going to the race ! Packing starts soon, probably after the Packer game.
I need to start riding my bike more and not just all at one time, (24x9). The plan is to do the rest of the WORS races and Cheq. Fat Tire fest.
I need to start riding my bike more and not just all at one time, (24x9). The plan is to do the rest of the WORS races and Cheq. Fat Tire fest.
Monday, August 18, 2008
BABGHAP
"The Belated All-In-One Big Gig Housewarming & Anniversary Party" (aka Shindig) or BABGHAP has come and gone!
Thank You to all who were there to share the day with us. That HUGE bottle of Champagne from our biking friends will be opened at the last race this year.
We didn't get to take many pictures as it was a busy day. But my sister did get a few, like the one with me in my wedding dress. She had been storing it for me at her house all these years. How funny, it fit! The next pic was from our wedding.
During the day everyone was asked to draw some pictures on a bag so we could put some sand in the bottom with a tealight candle and light them as luminaries at night. Here's a sample of how they turned out, this one, was done by Brandon, our nephew. There were about 15 of them lining the front of the house at night. Mostly, the kids took part in this activity which gave them something to do during the day.
This was at the beginning of the party with guests starting to arrive. My nephew Rich and niece Sheila were in this picture as well as Rob's Mom and niece in the background at the bar and Kim and Erica on the other side of us.
More guests starting to arrive. In total 120 people stopped in. We really had a wonderful day and couldn't have asked for better weather or company!
Maybe some more pics will roll in from other family or friends, if they are post worthy, you may see a few to come.
Thank You to all who were there to share the day with us. That HUGE bottle of Champagne from our biking friends will be opened at the last race this year.
We didn't get to take many pictures as it was a busy day. But my sister did get a few, like the one with me in my wedding dress. She had been storing it for me at her house all these years. How funny, it fit! The next pic was from our wedding.
During the day everyone was asked to draw some pictures on a bag so we could put some sand in the bottom with a tealight candle and light them as luminaries at night. Here's a sample of how they turned out, this one, was done by Brandon, our nephew. There were about 15 of them lining the front of the house at night. Mostly, the kids took part in this activity which gave them something to do during the day.
This was at the beginning of the party with guests starting to arrive. My nephew Rich and niece Sheila were in this picture as well as Rob's Mom and niece in the background at the bar and Kim and Erica on the other side of us.
More guests starting to arrive. In total 120 people stopped in. We really had a wonderful day and couldn't have asked for better weather or company!
Maybe some more pics will roll in from other family or friends, if they are post worthy, you may see a few to come.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Full Moon BABGHAP!!! Careful What is Exposed!
Did we mention that Saturday August 16th "The Day of the BABGHAP" is a Full Moon? Kinda scary...isn't it? Just wait until you hear the wild hounds surrounding the BABGHAP howling at the Full Moon! All the wildness will be there! Maybe we can give the Amtrak folks passing by down the hill from the BABGHAP a full moon to talk about!
Be there!
Be there!
Monday, August 11, 2008
BABGHAP!!! aka This Saturday's Shindig!
Candy and I have been planning on having a big gala housewarming/25th Anniversary (plus a few birthdays rolled in) Party for a while; we've been waiting until we got the new shack fixed up and the cash rolled in to fund the event. Since those things are never actually going to happen, we decided to have "The Belated All-In-One Big Gig Housewarming & Anniversary Party" (aka Shindig) or BABGHAP for short, this Saturday August 16, 2008.
Russell is keeping the guess list for us, click here to see who he has on the list. This gig will be attended by family*, friends*, neighbors* and of course, bikers* of all ages, sizes and nationalities.
*Though quite odd in nature, these bikers of the "non motorized" variety, are generally well mannered and do play well with others...even children. Actually, they have very much in common with children as children are almost always bikers when they're young but the unfortunate one's grow-up to be regular* people when they get older.
Slow Ride, take it...
What? Huh, what did you ask? "Will there be any bike related activities", well da sugs knows what's important and instead of cleaning and fixing stuff for the shindig, I built the Sugaland Trails System. And since we does not wants yawl getting all hot sweaty, dirty, bloody or knocking teeth out and stuff, we decided to have a RACE...of the SLOW variety. Bring your bike, as long as your wheels keep a turnin' (no track stands or you be DQ'd) slowest lap time with the least dabs wins!
If that isn't enough to come on it's own...we also will be burning things and the caterer promised to leave us "enough beer".
Where's this gig at you ask? If you have ever ridden down River Road in Brookfield you were a set of railroad tracks and the recycling center away from this gig. Edited/deleted: Can't call anymore this gig is over!
If this post offended anyone, you have my apology now but show-up for the shindig anyway, so that you can be offended in person.
Russell is keeping the guess list for us, click here to see who he has on the list. This gig will be attended by family*, friends*, neighbors* and of course, bikers* of all ages, sizes and nationalities.
*Though quite odd in nature, these bikers of the "non motorized" variety, are generally well mannered and do play well with others...even children. Actually, they have very much in common with children as children are almost always bikers when they're young but the unfortunate one's grow-up to be regular* people when they get older.
Slow Ride, take it...
What? Huh, what did you ask? "Will there be any bike related activities", well da sugs knows what's important and instead of cleaning and fixing stuff for the shindig, I built the Sugaland Trails System. And since we does not wants yawl getting all hot sweaty, dirty, bloody or knocking teeth out and stuff, we decided to have a RACE...of the SLOW variety. Bring your bike, as long as your wheels keep a turnin' (no track stands or you be DQ'd) slowest lap time with the least dabs wins!
If that isn't enough to come on it's own...we also will be burning things and the caterer promised to leave us "enough beer".
Where's this gig at you ask? If you have ever ridden down River Road in Brookfield you were a set of railroad tracks and the recycling center away from this gig. Edited/deleted: Can't call anymore this gig is over!
If this post offended anyone, you have my apology now but show-up for the shindig anyway, so that you can be offended in person.
Friday, August 08, 2008
TGIF
Even though it's been a two day work week. I'm sure ready for the weekend! Maybe we'll take in a movie or go to State Fair. I have to get Sugs out of those woods in the back yard. He's spending way too much time out there.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Going Back to Work
Work starts at 8am....
Tomorrow.
I was going to take the whole week off, but I wasn't sure about how many vacation hours I would have built up for Cheq. Fat tire fest.
So, back for Thursday and Friday. The weekend should come quickly.
We decided it was more important to hang around the house than to head up to Marquette this weekend. Although it would have been nice to see Dr. Dave, do the O2S and have fun up there we are going to stay home. Sugs will most likely do Sunburst, I'm considering that or a tri in Hartland, or taking the weekend off.
Tomorrow.
I was going to take the whole week off, but I wasn't sure about how many vacation hours I would have built up for Cheq. Fat tire fest.
So, back for Thursday and Friday. The weekend should come quickly.
We decided it was more important to hang around the house than to head up to Marquette this weekend. Although it would have been nice to see Dr. Dave, do the O2S and have fun up there we are going to stay home. Sugs will most likely do Sunburst, I'm considering that or a tri in Hartland, or taking the weekend off.
Monday, August 04, 2008
Race Recap
Sugs Says,
Imagine, 16 teams in the Duo Open with only 3 being coed...between midnight and 2 AM, everyone checks their standings, thinking, "well, that coed team is no threat, let's get some sleep and come back strong in the morning; they'll sleep too". We lulled them into sleep and applied our philosophy of "slow and steady wins the race". Well maybe we didn't win but I bet we sure shocked about 6 teams when they woke-up in the morning. Candy was able to get some sleep after she finished her lap at 01:16 AM and I was hoping she would have been rejuvenated enough to pull 2 laps when she started at about 05:48 AM. As long as she finished before 10:07 AM, I could have been able complete another lap for 14 total. She wasn't feeling it and had her "bad lap" for the event and could not go back out for her second. I was at the transition area when she finished at 07:48 AM, prepared to give her what she needed for another lap or ride two more laps myself. So, I took off as soon as she said she was done. Fortunately, none of that mattered me doing only 1 more lap gave us 13 laps and with our completion time was all that we needed to clinch 4th place. 3rd place was out of reach with 15 laps. A 4th place finish was fantastic! 3rd would have gotten us a podium shot (picture) and a jersey but oh well.
My "bad lap" came with my 2 laps, the first starting at 7:14 PM, the second starting at 9:11 PM with the second being my "bad lap". It got dark during the first lap and that is when the bad lap started. Seems during the race prep of making sure that our batteries for our lights were charged well, that somehow I forgot to pack my helmet light. With that being said I had to borrow a light from our wonderful team mechanic, support chief and fantastic friend Randy. Randy always boasts about his fantastic HID lights, he told me "once you use these you will not go back to your old lights" (our lights are truly "old"). Anyway, not this night; these lights created a brilliant "white" light...so brilliant that they blinded me and offered no depth perception which was extremely bad on a very technical and rocky course. Needless to say, I spent the majority of that second lap rolling on the ground. Battered, bruised and bloody, I still turned a 2:06 lap time. You would think I would have been smart enough to slow down seeing how I felt like I was riding blind; maybe I would not have spent so much time on the ground. The first aid station bandaged up an elbow and knee, so I was ready to keep pushing a long when Candy finished her lap at 01:16 AM.
I started a 2 lap run at that time; during the second lap, my light battery died with a little less than a half a lap to go. I fired up the useless emergency back-up light that we were required to carry and started looking for a wheel with lights that I could hang on to for the rest of the lap. First hooked on the back of a solo 24 hour guy but he had nothing left and was moving at a snail's pace. He crashed and I rode through a really technical and rocky climb and sat up waiting for the next wheel to come by. It was a girl named Heidi Godsil and she was a perfect lifesaver. She was doing Championship Duo Womens; she kept a strong pace that was probably as fast as I could safely go while using her light from behind her. I could not thank her enough!
Needless to say, I never slept. After breaking our camping spot down, which was agonizing as my body did not want to bend over to pick things up any more; we finally pulled into a hotel at about 1:50 PM Sunday to get some sleep.
Candy Says,
Strategy? Someone asked before the race. Hmm. I guess I hadn't even thought of a strategy, other than to ride and have fun and see what we could do against the other Duo Open racers. My goal in the long run was to not flat, ride steady and try to pull as many laps as possible without hurting myself. 1st lap was strong, the 2nd and 3rd laps were hot, back to back! 4th lap was fun (cause I wasn't doing 2 back to back and I love night riding) and lap 5 was awful...(nausea, cramps and no coordination). I wanted to go out for another, but I was afraid of hurting myself, so I turned it over to Sugs.
We totally appreciated Randy, Erica and Tess for being there as support. Now we're spoiled! Randy, we expect you to do the race next year, so who's gonna be our support then?
You'll have to make sure to mentor someone through the winter to do a top notch job like you did.
Here's some pics
The start
Sug's Lemans start
Thanks Rick, for having the bike ready
Support (Randy)
Randy and Erica
Campsite
Tess- So Smart and a great helper.
After lap 4
And, the finish!
Imagine, 16 teams in the Duo Open with only 3 being coed...between midnight and 2 AM, everyone checks their standings, thinking, "well, that coed team is no threat, let's get some sleep and come back strong in the morning; they'll sleep too". We lulled them into sleep and applied our philosophy of "slow and steady wins the race". Well maybe we didn't win but I bet we sure shocked about 6 teams when they woke-up in the morning. Candy was able to get some sleep after she finished her lap at 01:16 AM and I was hoping she would have been rejuvenated enough to pull 2 laps when she started at about 05:48 AM. As long as she finished before 10:07 AM, I could have been able complete another lap for 14 total. She wasn't feeling it and had her "bad lap" for the event and could not go back out for her second. I was at the transition area when she finished at 07:48 AM, prepared to give her what she needed for another lap or ride two more laps myself. So, I took off as soon as she said she was done. Fortunately, none of that mattered me doing only 1 more lap gave us 13 laps and with our completion time was all that we needed to clinch 4th place. 3rd place was out of reach with 15 laps. A 4th place finish was fantastic! 3rd would have gotten us a podium shot (picture) and a jersey but oh well.
My "bad lap" came with my 2 laps, the first starting at 7:14 PM, the second starting at 9:11 PM with the second being my "bad lap". It got dark during the first lap and that is when the bad lap started. Seems during the race prep of making sure that our batteries for our lights were charged well, that somehow I forgot to pack my helmet light. With that being said I had to borrow a light from our wonderful team mechanic, support chief and fantastic friend Randy. Randy always boasts about his fantastic HID lights, he told me "once you use these you will not go back to your old lights" (our lights are truly "old"). Anyway, not this night; these lights created a brilliant "white" light...so brilliant that they blinded me and offered no depth perception which was extremely bad on a very technical and rocky course. Needless to say, I spent the majority of that second lap rolling on the ground. Battered, bruised and bloody, I still turned a 2:06 lap time. You would think I would have been smart enough to slow down seeing how I felt like I was riding blind; maybe I would not have spent so much time on the ground. The first aid station bandaged up an elbow and knee, so I was ready to keep pushing a long when Candy finished her lap at 01:16 AM.
I started a 2 lap run at that time; during the second lap, my light battery died with a little less than a half a lap to go. I fired up the useless emergency back-up light that we were required to carry and started looking for a wheel with lights that I could hang on to for the rest of the lap. First hooked on the back of a solo 24 hour guy but he had nothing left and was moving at a snail's pace. He crashed and I rode through a really technical and rocky climb and sat up waiting for the next wheel to come by. It was a girl named Heidi Godsil and she was a perfect lifesaver. She was doing Championship Duo Womens; she kept a strong pace that was probably as fast as I could safely go while using her light from behind her. I could not thank her enough!
Needless to say, I never slept. After breaking our camping spot down, which was agonizing as my body did not want to bend over to pick things up any more; we finally pulled into a hotel at about 1:50 PM Sunday to get some sleep.
Candy Says,
Strategy? Someone asked before the race. Hmm. I guess I hadn't even thought of a strategy, other than to ride and have fun and see what we could do against the other Duo Open racers. My goal in the long run was to not flat, ride steady and try to pull as many laps as possible without hurting myself. 1st lap was strong, the 2nd and 3rd laps were hot, back to back! 4th lap was fun (cause I wasn't doing 2 back to back and I love night riding) and lap 5 was awful...(nausea, cramps and no coordination). I wanted to go out for another, but I was afraid of hurting myself, so I turned it over to Sugs.
We totally appreciated Randy, Erica and Tess for being there as support. Now we're spoiled! Randy, we expect you to do the race next year, so who's gonna be our support then?
You'll have to make sure to mentor someone through the winter to do a top notch job like you did.
Here's some pics
The start
Sug's Lemans start
Thanks Rick, for having the bike ready
Support (Randy)
Randy and Erica
Campsite
Tess- So Smart and a great helper.
After lap 4
And, the finish!
Sunday, August 03, 2008
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