Tucson weekend

Spent the weekend in Tucson with my ol' buddy Jake Rubelt and did a couple MTB rides down there.  Saturday Adam and I drove out to the 24hours of the Old Pueblo and rode the course while the race was on.  The course was in great shape and we had a blast!  SO MANY cactus out there!  The course was fast so everytime you swerved to dodge one cactus you had to juke the other direction to avoid another.  We were riding and laughing, yelling "Zing! Zah! Whoa!" the whole time.  What a crack up.

Sunday Jake took us out to the Star Pass trails out by his house and had a very similar experience.  Geez I can't believe how many sharp, pointy, stingy things there are out there!  We rode big gears trying to keep up with the Snake and it felt like we were riding in a NORBA rae at times. Man that guy can turn a pedal!  Much of the trails there are pretty technical too with sharp turns and hard climbs with decent size rock pick ups and plenty of cactus lining the sides. There were definitely times when I surprised myself by not falling into a cactus or sharp rock!  

Still it was a great time.  Traction was good and there was virtually no dust.  Temperature was perfect too with some light clouds.  It really was bitchin!

After that ride we strolled over to El Guero Canello for some fantastic Carne Asada and horchata.  Followed that up with a trip to the Tap Room at Hotel Congress for some $1.50 Schlitz cans.

Yeah.  It was a good weekend. ~jb