Weekend What Nots...

Saturday AM by the numbers: Nine juniors and three parents not counting me.

Veteran DBCJRT'rs AWfoSho, El Gigante, PtotheArker, and Tapinator took this years latest class of recruits on a nice-to-get-to-know-you spin out to Winters. I'm sure enough excited to see Brian, AJ, Ryan, Kyle, and Peter out riding their bikes with the normal crowd. There is nothing so cool as seeing orange and white all lined up heading down the road. Soon enough, we'll have the new kits and all the kidlets will be sporting DBCJRT colors. Can't wait.

Ryan and Kyle had to cut the ride short... something about six hours of a hockey tournament to get off to. Pretty hardcore for little guys! Brian, Peter, and the rest of the parental crowd returned to Davis from Winters just in time to see the fog burn off. AwfoSho took the rest of the crowd out for a tour of three hills... good old Gibson/Steiger/Cantelowe... rumor has it that PtotheArker and the Tapinator are getting themselves uphill pretty darn well. And AwfoSho reports that AJ is a climbing maniac for a kid who hasn't spent much time on a bike. Fun, Fun!

Sunday's ride was less about social and more about suffer... AWfoSho, Staz, TK, and El Gigante showed up for the Jesse ride along with Caren and me.

AWfoSho, Caren, and TK opted for a 4.5 hour jaunt up towards Auburn via Jesse roads... Baxter Grade and any other road that doesn't have a centerline on it. After a descent to the Confluence and a climb to Cool, they returned via Salmon Falls. I'm told that this is basically the "Around the Lake Loop" in reverse, except that Jesse spends more time on tiny little side roads than the main route. Its cool to see the boys hangin' with the local hardmen, but the coolest thing today was watching Caren chick a bunch of those hardmen... she'd had enough of "gettin' no respect" out there in her DBCJRT junior kit, so today she dug out one of her old Jane's Cosmetics kits. Just to say, "Look at me, I used to be a Pro!" Chick'n the hardmen... gotta love it.

El Gigante and Staz were relying on me to get them back to the car from somewhere around Auburn... a little take a left here and a right there escapade that finally saw us riding back into Folsom after three-and-a-half hours... we did get to spend a good chunk of time riding levees and gravel, which always makes things a tad bit more interesting...