Well, we missed the last possible race of 2008, the Boulder Beer Mile and some of the first possible races of 2009 including a ski race at Eldora and a cyclo-cross race in Lyons, but I'm (Eric) not too upset about it as we've got a full schedule ahead of us in 2009 although racing might be pushed to the back-burner for a little while as work for both A and myself promises to be a bit crazy.
2008 was a good year. We started the year doing more ski races than we have in a long time. I got burnt out by mid January of racing every weekend, but A kept plugging along every Wednesday for the Eldora Nighthawks and a lot of the weekends as well.
In February, we trekked down to our favorite race of the year (Mt. Taylor Quadrathlon). A had a great uphill bike going until she broke a spoke, but since I wasn't having a great bike and was behind her, we swapped bikes. Riding the rest of the way up wasn't too bad with the bum wheel, but the way down was pretty scary. I never was able to catch A after switching bikes and she ended up getting second for the women. Actually, it wouldn't probably wouldn't have mattered if she had kept riding on her bike as she was 20 minutes behind the 1st place finisher and 30 minutes ahead of the 3rd place finisher. For me, the runs, skis and snowshoe sections went okay, but I had to ride really conservatively for the first steep section down. In town, I chased down the guy in front of me just for competition sake. That ended up being the difference between 3rd and 4th in my age group, so for the first time I got a chunk of Nambe.
After the Quad, we raced the Snow Mountain Stampede ski race in March and tried to get ready of IM Arizona in April. The day before Arizona is when we started this blog, but short story to that race is that we didn't get enough biking training in and weren't prepared for the heat in Tempe.
Post-Arizona, we took a little break, had some family visit, and A turned 30.
In May, we headed to Minnesota for Amber's sister's wedding and threw in a stage race (road).
We had some excitement when Sunny stay with us around the 4th of July and later when we went to Rockygrass for 2 days, but otherwise most of our summer seems to have been centered around biking, running and swimming.
IM Canada went pretty well for both of us as we set PR's. I had a stupid 15 minute flat (damn Vittoria pit stop), but quite pleased with my run. A had a solid race across the board, but her age group was stacked with some fast finishes and there weren't any roll downs for Kona.
Since then, we raced the Halfmax in Boulder City, NV back in October, A switched jobs, we started training for skiing, we painted the kitchen, had Sunny visit us again, had my dad visit us again, had a great weekend up at Devil's Thumb Ranch, and spent the last week and a half doing stuff at home.
For '09, we hope to make it back down the Quad, A is signed up for Buffalo Springs 1/2 IM in June (I plan on signing up once some work things get finalized), and we are signed up for IM Canada again (hey Sunny, are you interested?). Beyond that, maybe the 5430 series, a Triple Bypass ride, more bike races (Mt. Evans hill climb?), or some running races, but we will have to play it by ear.
Peace Out,
-E
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