Saturday we spend the day at New Fane, getting ready for the 12 hours at New Fane race, Memorial Day weekend. The DNR is nice enough to let us create some temporary trails for that day. . . . .and that's what we laid out. With a nice sized crew we put the rakes to work and added 3 sections of twists and turns amidst the fast, open track. After everything was laid out, we put it to the test and rode. Fun stuff. We'll need just a little more work out there before the big day, grooming a few of those turns. The laps took me about 28 minutes at a moderate speed. Pretty fun stuff.
Sunday we AGAIN awoke to our 15 year old black lab telling us it was time to get our butts out of bed and feed her. That's really getting old. But once she's up and fed, she typically goes back to bed. And that's what we did as well. Our little Thunder wasn't ready to get out of bed. . . . .she had a play mate for the trail work day. She played her little heart out and she slept MOST of the day Sunday. We had to go purchase her some Benedryl tho'. She woke up with her snout about twice the size from some type of bug bite poor thing. And she's such a sensitive puppy. .. . . .try and touch her when she's not feeling good and whimpers you'll hear.
A few errands, some odds and ends, and an afternoon/evening with Bill's family for his dad's birthday and Mother's day and that wrapped up our weekend. Bill seems to have pinched a nerve in his neck/shoulder, or pulled a muscle or something, as it hurt all weekend, making it virtually impossible for him to lift any weight (including Thunder) yesterday. From what I hear, today is even worse. Guess we'll be prompting him to call the DR to figure that out today.
I can't believe it's Monday again already. Crap.
3 comments:
yeah. the weekends sail by fast for sure. we got over an inch of rain yesterday. sucks.
Thanks so much for all your hard work up at New Fane -- looks like this year the competition is going to be HOT! See you in Geneva!
Love the photos, my wife and I have three Shepherds ourselfs.
When we first took the puppy (a year old now) to his first MTB race he was like a Rockstar...everybody knew him after a couple hours, was great.
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