Mike & Steph's Spot: October 2009

So, we both survived the race this weekend. We went up to Pinetop on Thursday and did a short ride in the afternoon. Friday we did a 10 mile ride on the loop that made up most of my ride so that I would know what to expect. I wrecked lots of times and have more bruises right now than I have ever had at one time. But the good thing about that was that I didn't wreck at all during the race. The weather Thursday and Friday was gorgeous and sunny. The forecast for Saturday was rain but luckily the weather held out and it was beautiful Saturday too. Thank goodness no repeat of the weather last year. The rest of our group came up on Friday afternoon/evening. Some of us went to lunch at Darbi's on Friday afternoon (love that place) for a great lunch. Saturday morning we all headed out to the race starting area. The guys' race started at 8:30 am and mine started at 9:30 am. I ended up finishing right around the same time as the guys did. So yes, it took the guys only about 1 hour more to do 21 more miles than me! But my only intention was to finish the race, which I did. I started at the back of the pack and any time someone got behind me I pulled over for them to pass because it made me nervous to have them behind me. There were about 5-7 other people that I kind of went back and forth with throughout the race so that made me feel good that I was able to keep up with a couple people. I was pretty worried at the start of the race because it took about 2 miles for my legs to warm up and stop feeling awful. I was so excited to finish! It felt like such an accomplishment. The guys all did great in their race. JC finished first (in under 4 hours I believe) of our guys. Then Eric, Jeff, Mike and Scott. I crossed the finish line between Mike and Scott. I was glad that Mike got to see me finish because I got to see him finish last year. Kristin (JC's girlfriend) and Rhonda (Jeff's wife) were our photographers since I was racing. So glad they got lots of pictures for me...scrapbook pages to come. Since the weather was so nice this year we all got to hang out after the race at the start/finish area. We hung out and just relaxed, recapped about the race and drank beer. Saturday night we all went out to eat at a great Mexican place. Sunday morning we just headed home. We would have done some sight seeing with the fall leaves and everything but our truck was having issues so we thought we should just get home. Some other time we will go back to just sight see and hang out. The area is so beautiful!
In other news, we put our house on the market last week. We are just going to see what happens since the market is so crappy. But I just want to be able to sell it so that we have the freedom to buy a bigger house before the market goes too high again. Now that everything is finished it's really nice. Kind of sad to see the realty sign in the front yard. Lots of memories and hard work have gone into this house. Patience with be the key...
Saturday we leave for Rocky Point with JC and Kristin for 4 days. Then back for a little over a week and then off to Cabo!!! Hoping to get a tan started in Rocky Point so that I don't get too fried in Cabo.
Here are some pictures from last weekend. I also put them in Picasa so they are on the link on the sidebar where our pictures are. I also took a disposable camera that I haven't gotten developed yet that I think will have some good pics on it so I will add those later.