CULT CROSS COURSE HELP....

october cross in eagle

All hands on deck to help get the Eagle Fairgrounds Cult Cross course ready for race day. Hi all, early next week I am going to get the Eagle Course flagged. As most of you know we have had a record snow year here and there is still quite a bit of snow out there. I have been out there EVERYDAY doing course maintenance for the past couple of weeks. I've got a pretty good bead cut out there and once it is flagged if you could all pay a visit on your cross or mountain bikes and do a lap or two it would be extremely helpful. Right now the plan is to get through this next snow event which should be over on Thursday, I'll then re-establish the course line and we should be in great cross shape by next week. The Gypsum course has minimal snow on it and is going to be a classic. Thanks for any of you who help...it's gonna be world class cross racing.

October pic from the Western Slope Cross series

A FRIEND WITH A NEED....SHAVE YOUR HEAD 3/15/2008

This blog has turned into alot of things for many different people in a very short time. It has been flattering that so many of you enjoy what my sick mind brings to these pages in cyberland, the beauty of it all is that it will remain floating around for anyone to visit until the end of time. Many of you call me with great ideas, cool pictures (see the previous post) and stories to post so you can share it with my mostly uncaptive audience. It's just a bunch of senseless rambling but the beauty of it is that it is also a forum to spread the word about stuff that really matters, stuff that people actually have to deal with on a daily basis while the rest of us have a tendency to take life for granted in this amazing place we live.

Finn, the squinter

This is the Rooney family who live in Eagle, I consider Eamonn (dad) a great bloke and friend. If you do not know of him, he is an ex-pro cyclist Englishman and has a cool family, he has had to deal with some issues health wise with one of his kids, Finn. Finn is not possible to describe other than I believe he could give it a pretty good run at beating any of the presidential candidates left running and take helm of our country no problem. I was not sure how to relay this important info to you all, so I will just copy Dad on his e-mail which he sent out Monday, please read it, and help if you can.

Hi Everyone, It's that time of year again! Are you ready to help me shave the way to a cure for childhood cancer? Last year, I shaved my head to raise money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation. And now I'm going to do it all again--with a little extra surprise planned for the day of the "shaving." Here in Eagle, our St. Baldrick's Day event will be on Saturday, March 15, from 1 - 5pm. If you're in town, feel free to join us at the Eagle Fire Department where you'll get to see the shavees up close and personal. Or we can just send you pictures after the fact your choice. Worldwide, more than 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. As you know, our own Mighty Finn was one of those 160,000. On August 5, 2007, after 3 1/2 years of chemotherapy, Finn completed his leukemia treatment. We are very, very lucky--so many families don't get the same chance. While advances have saved many children, including Finn, childhood cancer still claims the lives of more children in the U.S. than any other disease more than diabetes, asthma, congenital anomalies, cystic fibrosis and AIDS - combined. Now it's our turn to give back and St. Baldrick's is one of the ways we're doing that.

Funds raised by the St. Baldrick's Foundation are used to fund childhood cancer research - to help speed the day when every child with cancer will be guaranteed a healthy future.

You can click on the link below and go directly to my Web page on the St. Baldrick's site if you'd like to sponsor me in this year's shaving event:

http://stbaldricks.org/referral.html?Ref=L3BhcnRpY2lwYW50cy9zaGF2ZWVfaW5mby5odG1sP1BhcnRpY2lwYW50S2V5PTIwMDh8MzQyMjg=

(If for some reason the link doesn't work, you can go to www.stbaldricks.org and search the participants for Eamonn R.)

On behalf of all children with cancer, and especially from our family, thank you for your support of the St. Baldrick's Foundation.

Eamonn. . .and Natalie, Declan & The Mighty Finn

A NEW RECRUIT FOR THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOP RIDES

With Eagle growing in leaps and bounds, it is critical to introduce as many new riders to the Wednesday night shop rides as possible. I am recruiting this little number to come and join us every week...Is that a Quick Pump in your Camelback or are you just happy to see me?

I have informed her that the rides are very long and difficult and that it is probably wise to pack a "box lunch".

ADDICTED TO BICYCLES IS REPORTING HILLARY'S PMS (post menapausal of course) MAY BE KICKING IN..

I mean....look at these pictures....yikes, and is it just me or is her "tone" extremely annoying and polarizing? Hmm, reminds me of another person currently IN office, I just can't put my finger on it? Billary's platform appears to be "I will answer the phone at three o'clock in the morning". Well of couse you will Billary, you damn sure won't be getting laid.

Billary Clinton?
There is a thought

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw, cmon Texas!

AND THEN I WAKE UP TO THIS BULLSHIT

ANOTHER FOOT OF SNOW IN EAGLE

WHAT'S THIS DO FOR CULT CROSS?

IT MAKES IT MORE SNOWY.

FUTURE SUPERSTARS, FORMER SUPERSTAR?

SHANE RIDLER..ON HIS 8TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATES THE PODGE SPOT IN HIS CROSS COUNTRY RACE...

AND BRO JESSE RILDER TAKES A PODGE SPOT ON THE RAILS ON THE SAME DAY..IT'S A RIDLER KIND OF DAY UNTIL...

DAD JONO, BREAKS HIS DEALIO AGAIN TELE'N. THE GUY JUST GETS SO LOW AND HAS TOO MUCH POWER FOR A TELE BINDING TO STAND A CHANCE..SO ONCE AGAIN HE SKIS DOWN ON AN UNO RIG.

COLORADO RIVER RIDE TODAY AT NOON

Court and Gretch sheddin layers on the river road as temps near 60 degrees, thank you sun gods for finally showing your face.

One of my montras has always been, "if I leave this earth tomorrow, do not feel pity for me, I've had enough fun for ten lifetimes". Then I have a day like today, and I realize I want to have ten more lifetimes of fun.

Myself and Courtney Gregory, who was with me driving back from a Gunnison UCI CX race this past fall when we discussed the idea of spring cross racing (HENCE CULT CROSS), took a road ride on a near sixty degree day in Eagle and headed out to the Colorado River road for a three hour tour Gilligan's Island style. Before long we were reeled in by Gretchen Reeves, a women's National Marathon MTB champion who now resides in Eagle. Gretchen decided to back it down a notch and ride with the boys. Before long, it was Chris and Cheryl Cook who we saw headin back towards Eagle, then Bryan Bill and Alex Mitling heading in the same direction on the River road. Not thirty minutes later we ran into Mr. and Mrs. Jay Henry riding out while we were now headed home. If you do not know of Jay, he is also the reigning MTB Marathon National Champion after defeating Ryan Trebon during last year's MTB marathon National Championship at Breckenridge. Pretty crazy eh? Only in the Vail Valley. All in all it was just a stellar day, great scenery, great company and great conversation along the way. I want to live until I'm 300 years old.

and of course some crappy quality vij from Addicted to Bicycles

RACE NUMBERS FOR CULT CROSS.....CHECK.

Thanks to the ACA for their help with keeping my path moving forward for the Cult Cross Series, Yvonne you have been the bomb, thanks for helping correct all my misguided mistakes trying to put this series together, I've learned a pile, and will learn much more...