A party followed by another party!

Last Thursday was the first of many 29th's birthday for the burrower. In celebration for the event she wanted to have a nice quiet evening at the house with good friends. Instead we got the usual gang.(if any of them reads this, kidding) Her wish was to have a family dinner night making homemade pizza followed by a kinect party. She got her wish. After it was decided that the women folk go to the living room the men were then in charge of making the homemade pizzas. For once this is a decision the women would not regret. Onions, sausage, pepporini, mushrooms, peppers, chicken, bbq sauce, and probably a few other topings in which I forgot to mention all made it onto one pizza or another.

The girls banished from the kitchen

Angus using our bud light rolling pin. After stuffing our faces and bellies it was time to work off those carbs with a little excercise, kinect dance central 2 style.

The burrower and Ashley getting jiggy wit it

Pretty sure I won this round...

And they lost their man card early in the night. Finally just before midnight everyone went home, full, exhausted, and only partially drunk (not the drivers though) And then the party after the party, the last race at the Winter Short Track. This was the party to end all parties even though the high only reached about 40 degrees. The crowd was huge and rowdy. Afros, wigs, tu-tu's, even a pinata (thanks Mutt for the pic)

I almost had it, but the guy after me smashed it down. After the race I did get the candy though. I count that as a win in my book. Before I get to my little recap I just need to backtrack a bit and I don't feel like deleting everything else and starting over. I did manage to get off work early on Friday, headed up to the Sun and Ski shop, picked up some winter riding gloves and hit a quick lap at Shermans branch. I posted a respectable time for February, better than my time last August. Then on Saturday I was too lazy to load up the mountain bike, so I just hit my local hills in the Research park on a roadie ride. Which gets us caught back up to Sunday... So Sunday we get to the track a little earlier than usual and I still manage not to warm up, but layer up in attempt to get warm in the freezing weather. Robert layering up

I ride 2 laps around the parking lot and then line up in the 2nd row left side, my usually starting place. Neil yells on the intercom "Racers..Go". There is a pile up on the right ride as some riders have problems clipping in. I take this to my advantage and hop into the woods in around 8th place. This is the first time all series I have been in the top 10. The trail was dry and fast and I used that to my advantage. I ended up staying with the leaders through the actual mountain bike part of the course and even put a small gap on the guys behind me. And then we hit the fire road. All of the guys that couldn't hang on the downhill ended up passing me on the uphill. Damn roadies. Another 2 laps and I finally settled into my rythem and eventually started picking off one rider at a time. I bombed down the single track, feeling my tires squeal under pressure and hitting the berms and then try as hard as I could on the climb out.

I posted my best last at 3:51, 8 seconds faster than previous laps, and finished a full 2 minutes faster than the last week. I guess the moral of this story is the more you ride, the faster you get. I might have to try doing that more often to get faster. Succuss!!! I did stay around for the single speed class afterward to watch Mr. Hagarty,

teammate Steve Pep,

and Mr. Conginality, Dave Elliston

Then the awards ceremony at East Blvd Bar and Grill. I didn't win anything, but I really dont need an excuse to drink beer and talk bikes. I think the next race is going to be the Killer 3 down in SC. Until then...

YEAH BOYYYY