Sublime Sublimity Photos

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I hope you enjoy them! I hope to put a bunch more on SmugMug later. I shot over 400 frames, so I need to whittle it down a little.

Becka, before the W 1/2/3 start.

K-MAN!

PowerTap abuse.

The scenery was majestic.

Becka drives the break.

Rollers were one of the main dishes on the menu today.

The early 4-person break in the W 1/2/3 field.

Cole Hilton rolls comfortably in the 4/5’s.

Heidi is rockin’ it.

Adam gets dropped from the pack as the Men’s 4/5 field gets ready for the final climb of the day.

And there they go!

David and Boon at the finish line.

Pacific Power – Blue Sky charges up the finishing climb.

The W 1/2/3 field heads for the finish.

Hanging out with Kenji as the women get ready for “Flypaper Hill.”

Jen rockets up the vertical finish.

Win!

Becka finished 3rd on the day, after working hard in the break all day long.

Kenji chats with Jen. Jen is tired.

Kenji makes faces.

Kenji oversees all of OBRA-land.

The winner!

Heidi, coming up to the finish line…

…and crossing.

Kristen’s rim failed. She kept it upright, though- props!

Sublime?

K-MAN!

So many possibilities…

I woke up to my alarm at 5am yesterday… then slept on accident until 6am. I had to be at Lisa’s 15 minutes later, so I scrambled up out of bed and eventually got out the door. I was kinda late. The drive up to Sublimity was fine. Dum dum dum.

It was a cold morning. I saw Big Nick at registration. He said, “I heard a rumor about you.”
I paused. “Oh really? What’s that?”
Nick said, “I can’t tell you. Then it wouldn’t be a rumor.”
Things degenerated and I finally pulled out the end-all-be-all: “Nick, I’m taller than you.”
Lisa almost died laughing, I think

BURN! ARE YOU LOL-ING AT ME NOW?! THAT’S RIGHT!

It turns out that I’m a sprinter, just like Big Nick. Except for the ‘Big’ part.

And on that note… Nick got dropped in his race. OUCH. Sorry, that was kind of mean.

Cool stuff I did yesterday
- Lots of photos (428, to be exact). I will put them in the next post.
- Hanging out with Kenji during the afternoon sessions.
- Telling the 1/2/3 women they were doing one less lap. (Becka was MAD!)
- Getting a flat in the parking lot (not during the race).
- Explaining where the finish line was at least fifty times.
- Getting dropped like a (something-much-bigger-than-a-rock) up the first climb.

This post is not as epic as it was in my head. Hmm.

Sublime

I’m heading up to Sublimity in a few hours (6, actually). First Cat 3 race. Next to no training. (13 hrs/mo. for the last two months). Excuses aside (which I have many of), I’m racing tomorrow. Hopefully over the first climb too…

Blog un-dead! Hopefully more soon to come.

Disjointed entry… over.