Drove north an hour or so for a Ritchey sponsored 80k marathon race just outside of Bamberg. They call the area “little Switzerland”, with some decent hills. Climbing for the race was listed at 5000ft, enough to take notice, probably not enough to help me. We got there a little late, by the time I [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Litzendorf Marathon
Posted in germany, racing on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fruhlingsfest
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We loaded up the kids into the trailer and headed out to a nearby town with some friends to attend a spring fest complete with a beer tent and carnies. Ate some pig knuckle for the first time, and it wasn’t to bad.
MutterTag
Posted in germany on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The rapeseed or canola is everywhere, fields and fields of it. Germany is the world’s 4th largest producer, used mainly for animal feed.
Other fields are set aside and wildflowers take over.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Weekend wrapup
Posted in bikes, racing on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It rained so much Thursday and Friday, that the trails were not dry enough to ride until Sunday. Even got caught in a hail storm on Friday in an underpass. Saturday the sun came back and I got in some quality specific work in the morning then dropped the wife off for a spa treatment and [...]
May day
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The cannachopper, Netherlands attempt to locate cannabis fields with high-tech sensors. My favorite headline of the day comes from the country of Switzerland, where a container exploded carrying the swine flu on a train. Fortunately it was the non-mutated type. And we do have a confirmed case in Regensburg, just an hour south. More importantly, today [...]
