Bike Race

I have been meaning to post about this all week and now, when I should be cleaning the house, I'm finally getting to it.

Last Sunday, Andy had another mountain bike race. It was a local race and even the kids could participate in a little kiddie race they were having before the "big" race started. He was excited to get the kids involved and once they got there, they loved it too!





Andy loves mountain biking and he, unlike myself, is in awesome shape. He is not the type of person to workout at a gym. He wants the real thing. To get out in the fresh air, get muddy and have "real" fun...and get the exercise too!

I, on the other hand, am quite different. Something about him jumping over logs, skidding down big rocks and hitting trees doesn't seem like a lot of fun to me. All while on a trail only a little wider than your bike....no thank you! To each his own.

Anyway...back to the race.

The kids and I drove the van, so that we could leave the park once the kiddie race was over. Our plan was to stay long enough to see daddy start his race and then go home. It's kinda boring when you don't actually get to see the race (remember they are in the woods....) but my parents and another couple we know (who came to"watch" their son) were there and so we ended up hangin' out.

Getting ready to start!

And they're off.....

The sport division of the race is two 9-mile laps. This is the division that Andy rides in....about 45-50 minutes after they start....you can hoot and holler as they ride by and then sit and wait for another 45-50 minutes until they start coming in.

There were about five or six expert racers that day....(Expert is where you ride three laps instead of two) and a couple of them started to come in....or start their third lap. I was watching the time and I knew Andy would be coming in in the next 10 minutes or so.

To my surprise...I looked up just a few minutes later to see him coming in....Oh my Gosh..."He's in First Place, I couldn't believe it!

He WON First! Place! in the sport division! I was so proud of him! He beat his normal time by about 6 minutes! How AWESOME!

It was a really fun day and maybe, just maybe, the kids and I had something to do with it. Maybe we are his lucky charms! We might be going to a lot more bike races in the future!