The report from Illinois: In three days we lay ed out 198,000sq feet of concrete. With two crews of ten. Need less to say it was the most work that any of us did. After it was all done said with, I felt different about myself. I had no energy this past weekend, and I mean none. Now all we have to do is 33,000 feet of wall.(about 7miles, 32ins at a time)This is what the site looks like.
Made it two levis on friday for some work.
Sundays work.

First things first, I am going to Illinois this week leaving at 3:00 a.m. Monday morning. We are on a four day work schedule. Sun up til sun down. Leave late Thursday night, have Friday, Saturday, Sunday off. So we will see how this goes.


The start: The course was all switch backs. Switchbacks uphill, Switch backs downhill, all with logs that you could not smoothly go over. Bike-fully rigid, tubeless tires, front 35psi, back 37psi. gearing was 34/18.Lap 1: Sitting in on third. Went into a switchback, rolled my tire, crashed. Got back up, air still good. Still sitting in third. Went over a log too hard, rolled my tire again, crashed. Back up , tire dangerously low, but still gonna push it. Flowing thru the single track, now more tight switch backs, went in too hard again, crashed. Tire flat. Saw fourth and fifth go by me when I was loading my CO2. Back on the bike, Pit, pump up tires, go.

Lap 2: Went smooth, fastest lap of them all, except for. There was a technical section, instead of going around it, I opted to cyclo cross thru it. And then, Crunch! that was the sound my neck made when I hit a low lying tree that I didn't see coming. Ouch!!

Lap 3: Went down 2 more times. Had to CO2 again. This is starting to hurt. Not to mention my 34/18 gearing.

Lap 4: Made it through, played it safe. Legs are starting to burn.

Lap 5: Made it through, played it safe. Legs are toasted. Done! Ended up in 6th place.

Lap times: 1. 54:09 Crash count: 5
2. 48:15
3. 51:25
4. 55:34
5. 1:05:40

Toasted! The course was fun. My gearing was off. I talked to a couple of people that were running like 34/20, 32/18, and 32/19. oops! The tubeless, running low psi obviously there are some things I need to learn, like not being so rammy. Thanks to my pit crew, Brenda and Lucy. Up next, Copper Harbor.
As for this, Had to put some more stans in after I lost most of it at the race. put some in, pumped my tire up to 55psi, and I just got around the corner of the house and Poof! So don't use stans and pump your tire up too much. Have a good one.

headed up by Beeps and courts this weekend with Brenda and my mtb in tow. Saturday we headed up to river falls to hit up the single track. It was a fun fast 5 mile loop. Me and Beeps did a lap together, then I ripped off two by myself. This was fun.
This also was fun.
Bottoms up
Time for the night life. It was Hammond City days. Grilled out and hung out in the yard til about 9:00pm, then headed down for some live music. Hairball was the band's name. They sucked ass. I had 2 beers then left. Back to Beeps and in bed by 11:00pm.
Hit up Levis on the way home for a nice 3 and a half hour ride. Felt good to be back on my home turf. I feel good. The ferrous feels good. It should be a good race next weekend. Illinois got backed off another week. We have a meeting on Wednesday, then I will know my fate. Have a good one.

Congratulations to this sexy guy and his three teammates, my friends, on their win at 24/9. As for me, their is a shit storm brewin at work. It is going to hit on the 11th of this month. It is time for a change, 6, 6 ?, 100, 12. With still plenty of work in mind.
This is some work that I have been getting done. For those of you who don't know, I'm getting a sleeve of the 4 seasons. Up top is Old Man Winter(should be done in one more sitting). Bottom is fall (should be done in one more sitting, after old man winter is done). For the bottom half I have 2 women in the summer and spring seasons. More to come when more work gets done.

In other notes, congratulations to Kevin Syth on your top 90, and 2nd in age finish at the firehouse 50. Have a good one.