Bow 80

This year's Bow 80 - what to say.

Blue skies and 20 odd degrees on all days before and after race.

Day of race -
pouring rain at 6:30 am
drizzle at start
turned into snow / sleet up jumpingpound
hairy / cold decent down j-pound in pow
slug up cox while laughing with Darren pushing bikes to summit in white out blowing snow.
contiplated life at cox, Darren saying just get me down safely while shaking drastically.
2,000 foot decent in pow was so sketchy
get to check point, they mention 2 hrs to finish with the last pull out there. Darren and other pulled while I thought what to do. I have never been so cold with my hands unable to change gears barelyfeeling the brakes. Still snowing so pulled as well.
My first DNF, tough to do but was a safety issue.
Hard to swallow as worked so hard all summer and final race ends like that.

The organizers pulled all racers after us for safety issues / cold / snow. Seriously suprised to not hear of issues in the news from people up on the mtns.

suggest www.bow80.com for a perfect review of race

unfortunately no pics

With no cross bike, my season is over. Been quite lazy last few weeks, put on 7 lbs since race :)

Fall Seth pics

Seth turning 10 months old - where does the time go?

He is cuter and cuter every week. Not too mention how nuts he is now, getting into everything. Crawling up stairs no problems, standing on his own for up to 1 mins..won't be long for walking.

The joy I receive returning home from work and seeing his smile - too much. Marn says he hears the garage door open and starts looking for me - can't believe associates the door sound with daddy coming home :)

Revelsoke Hill Climb

Revi Hill Climb Sept 13 27 km road with 1,600 m in elevation

Marnie and I suffered in this race 4 years ago. They decided to add 3 kms, 2 at the start and a painful final km hitting 10 degrees.

Caravan of Banffites - joe bop,jess,keith,annette,liz,robbie,marnie and myself. Marnie fell end of July and hurt her knee. She went on the bike a few days prior to Revi, first time since the crash, but knee still hurt. Morning of the race she spun around but knee hurt too much and did not start - too bad as she would have killed it.

Stayed at Lisa's B&B - Cheeky Beaver, nice to have a home to crash,cook up a feast and sip some local Mt. Begbie beer and vino.

Race went well, tough to pace for 1.25 hrs uphill. Started too quick but slowed down into a comfortable rythym. Keith started 30 secs in front on me so I was trying to keep him in sights on the long switchback straightaways. He pulled away the last quarter and ended 1.75 mins ahead of me. Good for 11th, Keith 8th, beat Robbie by 3 secs.

Overall happy, being that I have had very limited riding time since August- 2hrs / week tops.

Sufferfest at it's finest. Great to see all types of humans out there, the 70 yr old man that started first and finished over 3 hrs made my day..inspiring.

Beautiful blue bird drive through Rogers Pass - pointing ski lines out to Marn around Asulkan Hut

See you next year

Fairmont

End of August headed to Fairmont to see mom and dad.

Have not seen much of them all year really. Dad cooked up the usual delicious food buffet, mom could not get enough of Seth.

She watched him for a few hours to enable Marn and I to play 9 holes at Creekside Par 3.

Seth was all giggles in their little pool.