Night Race, Daily Random Flickr Blogging, and Thanks!

Have you ever heard of Daily Random Flickr Blogging? I hadn't, until I ran across one of my pics from the Woodstock cross race on this blog. The blogger, who picks a random flickr pic to blog about every day, titles my pic "Amsterdam Gothic" and it turns out it's a pic of Helge of Half Acre Cycling and his new-at-the-time dog!

A big thanks goes out to Al of WEMS for his always creative awards! Nice!! Mine arrived today - it's a mug (or maybe it would be called a beer stein, not sure) with my name and team on one side and the overall series place, race category, and year of the other. I'll try to get a pic up later. I'm always impressed with how much effort and thought he puts into the awards. Thanks Al! And thanks to all of the WEMS directors for putting on a great series.

A note in the box with a schedule mentions that this year they will be doing a NIGHT RACE called the "Twelve Hours of Pitch Black Singletrack" in September at Cam-Rock! Could be interesting! Great name, too. That is one of the few places where I have actually ridden off-road at night! One year (2003?) Tawnya and I went up to get a Trek hq tour from friends who worked there, then that night we went night riding with the Trek peeps and then hung out around a bonfire the rest of the evening. The night riding was, fun, though challenging for me. I wonder if having much better lights than I did then would make any difference?