Monday, June 29th - Biking in the shower

Nate, Adam, and Aaron went for an hour and 45 minute fat tire ride today out to the singles of lowes creek. With the Chippewa Valley Firecracker fast approaching (July 5th), Nate wanted a "tour" of the course before he attacks it on Sunday. Adam will be in Las Vegas for vacation on Sunday taking care of the "beers" so he will be unable to ride. Aaron seems ready but admitted it may be a tough race for him on Sunday. Nate seems to be able to attack pretty hard and should be able to get with a good group of guys and hang pretty well. Aaron was Aaron and led the way stopping at every fork to wait for Nate and Adam. . .only God knows how long he actually is waiting there too, it could be for 2 minutes at a time. Nate and Adam seemed to ride at a similar pace. Adam had 3 "near death" experiences. He rides extremely hard but that also means he breaks extremely hard as well. Who knows what would have hurt Adam more in the one close call. As he locked up his breaks, he could have collided with a tree, very large stump, or go over the cliff edge that was a mere inches away. . .you pick, but somehow he managed to keep the bike on the path and actually stay on top of it. On our ride back to town, we were cooled off by a nice 5 minute downpour in which we are reminded of Nate's thought pattern at which point he hollered out at the top of his lungs. . ."I feel like im biking in the shower"! Good stuff