Tour de Cape 5K

Brian Hopkins was again, the first of Team Ag3r to compete in the calendar year.  However, THIS year, it was a running race(!)... The Tour de Cape 5K

Brian finished in 1st place (Men's 25-29) and in 13th place overall.

Most importantly, he says, "(he) didn't get beat by any girls."   : )

You can read more about it on Brian's Blog (CLICK HERE)

Colorado Training Ground?

Sam sends this picture trying to entice Ag3r riders into organizing a Boulder Training Camp.

I said it looked MUDDY.

Sam replied, (Don't worry), "That'll be dust in June"  : )

The Call of the Wild

When the conditions are right, we go RIDING!

Kirk and I headed out last night into the SNOW for a ride through Winter Wonderland.

This guy was our only "enemy" throughout the evening!

It was a great way to bring the Holiday Season to a close :)

2010 Review

USA Cycling Rankings

The Breaking Point

Dan Schar has been going to the Gym this off season.  From the looks of his crank arm, he should either STOP doing that(!) ...or find some stronger equipment!!!

 

Making the Turn

New Year's Eve

Kirk, Sam & Henry got out for the last ride of the year...and what turned out to be the last ride in the snow.

For you thrifty shoppers, Christmas trees are now on sale!

It was a cruddy ride kinda day.

...but not as cruddy as Kirk was feeling after showing us HIS Christmas gift from Santa.  Bad Boy Kirk!

We stopped at Cummings for some espressos and to watch the Winter Classic Alumni Game!

New Year's Day

The NHL decided to delay the Winter Classic, Pens vs. Capitals game because of rain... and the weather forecasters were right.

Showing up today were Richy, Henry and Kirk.  This was the 17th year (in-a-row) New Year's Day Ride for Henry...with Richy being along for a vast majority of them.

We rode through lots of standing water.

What snow remained, was turning to FOG.

The creeks were moving faster than we were!

Strangly, with not a sole in site, there was BLARING radio (music) coming from this equipment...(?)  WEIRD.

A new symbol of the Christmas season?  Frogs(?)  Kirk thought it "...almost Nightmarish"!

These Longhorns were cut off from their barn ...and their wagon!

More out-of-the-ordinary Holiday decorations.  We wondered if Planes accidently try to land there!

While Kirk and Henry's legs we getting weak, Richy was riding strong ...taking LOTS of Off-Road detours!

In the end, the 17 year streak stayed alive, and we didn't melt in the rain! 

So far so good for 2011   : )

Tour d'Liquor

Unfortunately, this year's 14th Tour d'Liquor was poorly attended.  Maybe it was the 20 degF temperature, or maybe it was just a reflection of the busy season...but no matter of attendance was going to slow down Steve Brewer, Mike Maher, the stiCk, and Henry Dimmick from enjoying themselves on this annual ritual.  In fact, as small as we might appear (see below!), we planned to have a BIG time this night!

Dropping down through the Boulevard, we found only one oasis of color amist lots of no-lights or white-only-lights cookie cutter houses.

Once in to town, we hooked up with Dirty Mike and his custom maflector wheelset!  Each time he started moving, we all fell into a trance... "You are getting very S L E E P Y ..."!!!

Halfway through the first neighborhood, we realized that stiCk's bike decoration lights battery pack was hanging from his tool bag... much like a set of "Truck Nuts"!

Upon arriving at our first stop, we began our lube job with a handfull of BLUES while setting about the only real business of the evening...our Annual Foosball Tournament!

2007 / 2008 Repeat Champion (tHe stiCkman) successfuly regained the top rung of the ladder, receiving the ceremonial winning Blue Label on the only part of his body that it would stick to!

Back out into the cold, we found a new kind of light this year...what looked to be REAL icicles...except in BLUE... seemingly the nights favorite color!

Right across the street were these really weird BLUE pipes with a strange BLUE gas coming from them...and before we knew it, we were overcome with the need to ride over the frozen gravel piles just behind them. 

Funny thing about WINTER piles of gravel...they are FROZEN. After MANY crashes...and seeing many BLUE stars, we decided to ride on before an Ambulance was necessary!

NOTE TO SELF: Frozen Gravel = Frozen Points. Most of us found "clusters" of quarter sized bruises on our legs in the "daze" following the ride!!!

Not knowing what the rest of the evening had in store for us, we thought it best to stop and say a prayer...

...before heading over the the multi-year repeat Winning Decorations house!

Problem was, that by this time in the evening, we were seeing the house more like THIS...!

Anyway, on to our next, and mostest favorite bar!

After too much time, and too much fun on "The Island"...

...we HAD to leave in order to get to the Swinging Bridge...

...where on this COLD night, we made lots of "Steam"...!

Next up, was Papa John's Pizza before they CLOSED. (In 2009, we arrived too late for Pizza, and went without food for the entire evening...which you can understand was NOT a good thing on THIS ride!)

After pounding down too much Pizza, too fast, everyone felt sick...so we put our tails between our legs and pedalled home...

NOTE TO SELF:  Pizza right before bed DOES make for a restless sleep!

So with another year's ride in the books....and a few more days for our memories and hangovers to fade, we will all be looking forward to next year's ride!

Merry Christmas!

Raccoon Park CX

Kirk Morrison, Rich Allen and Henry Dimmick ventured out in a 35 degF rain to compete in the Raccoon Park CycloCross race.

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Thanks to Mike Briggs & Sonic Imaging for the pictures
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What they discovered was Saturday's course report of: "Mostly frozen and snow covered with some greasy mud", had turned to the "Mud Bog from Heck"!

The conditions, however, were NOT able to dampen the spirits of the riders who were racing THE LAST RACE of 2010, especially when the RAIN turned to SNOW!!!

In the Men's Cat 1/2/3/4:

Rich finished in 9th Place

Kirk finished in 10th Place

...despite taking the long way around THIS particular turn!

...with Henry finishing in 11th Place

An Ag3r Sweep you might say!!!

After pealing off our WET and MUDDY clothes (6.96 lbs before the race, 14.06 lbs after!), we wheeled our bikes to a local home owners house to wash them off!

 

Now, we are having a bit of trouble with our bottom brackets being (rusted) solid!  Go figure :)

A great season, marked by a memorable Finale!