reasonable expectations v.2: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

green wednesday...

That's what the route's called, green wednesday. Pitched in on some out of town deliveries...

welcoming committee, didn't catch his name...

gravel west of Hallam, looks pretty good...

seems reasonable...

I already "lost" the charger for my new camera. Hope it turns up, not much battery life left...

Happy New Year!

TK

Monday, December 28, 2009

storm...

Seward, NE not AK...

got the assist from Holly on this one, thanks honey...

a neighbor had made a single pass while we were outta town, thanks who-ever. I opened it up a bit on my return...

designated latrine. its great...he only goes where I dig out a spot. the other one, she goes wherever she wants...

Later,

Saturday, December 26, 2009

stranded...

later that same day...

no tofurkey's were harmed in the making of this supper...

day 2 trails...

oh mighty Isis...

bustin' trail...

snowbound, Madison County....

shouldn't complain, I've got internet & my skis:)

hopefully limp back to Lincoln tomorrow.

Later,

BTW - I finally got a camera:)

Friday, December 25, 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

I hadn't really ridden a bike since a week ago Friday. Actually, I did ride my road bike on the trainer Wednesday night for 30 minutes because I was bored out of my skull. Enough of this off season crap...time to get back to it. I had to suppress the urge to go big on gravel day 1 & decided to just go check things out for a while. I have to tip my hat to the Lancaster County road crews, the gravel is in the best shape I have ever seen it. Smooth, hard packed, & completely cleared of snow. I wish I could say the same about the side streets here in town. No white rock & no thick gravel, just wide & fast roads. Even the dirt was primo, the plows had made a pass on those as well.

ok...not everything was cleared. I passed on this, you could see some ski tracks along the right side though.

day 1 self-portrait...

at this point I had jumped on the GLGA course (in reverse) at SW72nd & Wittstruck, I had little faith that this next section, W. Saltillo between SW 72nd & SW 84th, would be passable. It's usually rutted & often wet even in the summer. I was wrong, plow had even been through this gnarly section & it was as smooth as I'd ever seen it.

"that's right, smooth as I'd ever seen it..."

rolled into Denton & keeping in the PCL spirit purchased my Powerball ticket...

Old Cheney looking East, heading home...

2.5 hours & my legs are rubber as I right this...love it!

Hope everyone has a great holiday!

Later,

Saturday, December 19, 2009

the final chapter...

CX season is over...almost. Still the small detail of meeting TP 1/2 way between here & KC to swap his mini for the Trek Store Sprinter & trailer. A little less than 3 weeks ago we met him down at Squaw Creek truck stop to trade him the Sprinter & trailer for his mini. Man that seems like forever ago. I broke out my unused thermos from the Lincoln-Milford-Lincoln PCL prize vault, filled it with a french pressed Colombian, Matt T. picked me up & we were off!