This weekend was awesome. I participated in a 26k pre birkie ski race. So lets start with Friday night. Headed out to Chippewa to stay with my brother "Beeps"(Derek). He was my pitt crew this weekend. Courts made me some spaghetti(thanks Courts). Had a couple of berrs, BSed for a while, and was in bed by 8:30pm. Up and Adam for some pre race activities by 5:00am. On the road by 7:00am. Got to Hayward and got a 40min warm up. Then the race started. I started prabably about 200 back. Then, I realized once I started going that starting up farther ahead and having people pass me would have been way easier than me trying to pass a lot of people. Thank god there was one minor hill climb, that I got to pass about 100 people. Still skiing with a big group, but 2 groups started to form. Hesitant on my abilities to ski, I backed off, and skied in the 2nd group. Soon realizing I should have gone for the first group. So I made a break for it. I was making progress going up hills, but getting blown away on downhills. WTF!! I'm 190lbs. I should have no problems going down the hill fast. So I finally caught the tail end of the first group on a climb, then a down hill, and they were gone, and I was exausted. Skied about 10k, then the 2nd group finally caught up. By this time my skis were not hardly moving on the down hills. So I got in line with the 2nd group. Could have easily dominated them on the up hills, but then going down I had to work my ass off just to stay in tact. I ended up at 1:24. 43 over all. 3rd in my age group. Hell Yeah! Super jacked! Thanks to my pitt crew "Beeps". So back to my slow skis. I had a slight suspicion that I was sold the wrong size skis. After doing some talking with other people, and web searching, I realized that a fat guy like me needs to roll on some longer skis. So, I bought a pair (yes I am a tool). So I am selling 2 pair of race skis. Fischer RCS to be exact. So drop me a line if you are interested. (fuirolefty@yahoo.com)

pre race goodness
Congrats to the Weyers. Ray, Bonnie, and Kyle.

Also, the Syths. Kevin(the stud) and Diane.