Team Rio Grande

So, this past week was not the best for training, as the weather was slightly hindering to my riding abilities. As many of you might know, I live in Breckenfridge and it snows here a lot. This is what my house looked like two weeks ago:

As you might be able to see, that is a lot of snow. However, a lot of the snow has been melting off and things were looking pretty up. And then came last Wednesday, after watching it snow in the morning for 3 or  4 hours, it cleared up a bit and I put on the old thermal jacket (nothing else though) and went out for a spin. 32 minutes later:

Yeah, I know what you are thinking. Actually I don’t, if I knew what you were thinking, I would have long ago quit the sport of cycling, and I would be making millions in some crazy traveling circus. Hwever, what you were probably thinking was: ‘that looks cold man!’ And yeah, it was so I tucked the old tail between my legs and went home. As I was hammering back towards my house, I was not looking and was surprised when the road brought me a:

I was going like 157 kilometers an hour, so in a flash of brillance I pulled a classic movies scene stunt out, and did one of these:

Yeah, I know: Dumb. But I did it and that deer didn’t even know what happened. After that I made it all the way home successfully and celebrated my survival of the elements with a toast to myself. Because Wednesday wasn’t enough, it also snowed of Thursday and I had to ride inside because I am a big baby.

In other news the races this weekend went really well and the team did a great job. We are becoming more knowledgable by the day. Yeah I just used the word knowledgable. Boom, Headshot. That’s all I got.