Alleycats, Snow and Nationals Coming to Town?!

Procrastination and lack of organization are common fall themes for me. Thanksgiving break was fun, if not tiring trying to catch up and visit with family and friends, got out for a ride at the ridge with Brian but i spent most of that running through slush.

The saturday after Thanksgiving i won an alleycat race in Buffalo. It was super fun navigating through the city and completing random tasks! shotgunning root beer, eating saltines, candy canes, and some other silly stuff! Wnymites George and Kevin. Maybe i will make the alleycat circuit number 1 priority for 2009....

In other, exciting news there is a new national series for 2009, NMBS is gone and there is now and east and west coast series, which really makes more sense. Even better, most races are within 400 miles of my front door which is awesome, and even better one of them is the hoo ha! at Massanutten! A national in Harrisonburg, i can literally warm up riding to the race!

So i will begin winter training in a few weeks, and the WV race series, along with these nationals will keep me more than busy in 2009!

Christmassy Laurelbrush and Snow

We have no snow, and although i am not riding much, i usually make it out to the national forest once a week or so. Matt and i were up around 4000ft the other day and there was actually some snow up there! The mountain divides WV from VA and WV tends to have the snow clouds as seen in the pictures, while VA is clear to the east. Weird... I think my water bottles froze up there, but the ride down was totally worth it.