Ride To Stay Warm

This weekend's ride was a LITTLE CHILLY, but as always working hard up those hills and trying to stay up with LIGHTNING LEGS kept us all WARM....

Pedal Your Troubles Away

PCRs, I would like to share an article that Cory "Tow Truck" Hawke sent me today. Remember what Dr. J said about him as you read this....

Some of us pedal because we’re angry.
Some of us pedal because we’re happy, or at least we hope to be.
Some of us pedal because we don’t know what else to do.

To read more click on the link below

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/11/analysis/notes-from-the-scrum-up-up-up_266521

A Special Evening - For Special Women

Riding on a cool fall afternoon up City Creek Canyon, amongst the beautiful colors of autumn, creates moments of brilliance. On this day, Steve Hale was inspired, as he often now is that he has found his spiritual side, to suggest an ALL male-prepared dinner/event for our SPECIAL WOMEN. After hours of thought and meditation, assignments were made and the results... YES, were EPIC!

 SPECIAL  Invitation for SPECIAL Women

 

The women decided to separate themselves from the Help

 and talk about the important things of life,

BLACK FRIDAY.......

.... where the Help did what they do best, EAT!

After the main course was served, we were treating to a TOAST/ROAST by Dr. J. The video clip below gives you a flavor of what GREAT TALENT rides with the PCRs. 

 

 

 

Jann & Val Ludlow

Vicki & Kim Briggs

Andrea & Dave Moesser

Tara & Cory Hawke

 Corinne & Brian Lloyd

Daphne & Craig Bruner

Mary & Mike Glauser

Kathy & Steve Hale

Jodi & Scott Wood

Nancy & Bruce Jensen

"TO THE WOMEN"

After treating ourselves to a to-die-for dessert item, the PCRs put on a number that will go down in the history books. With the talent of a 25 year LOTOJA rider, Val "Liberace" Ludlow and a lot of HOT AIR, the Women were entertained to a Hollywood production of

 

"THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAME"

 

The evening came to a close as each of the PCRs gave a personal tribute to the woman in their life. Captain Briggs sent out strict instructions that we were to keep it to "one minute" and be "creative". He lead us off, which he very seldom did while riding this year, and broke the first rule. However, with his poem he set the bar WAY HIGH. Hale recited Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 (from memory) and Jensen also had a poem. The rest of us, tried to hang in and not get left behind the lead riders. THE PACE WAS FAST and thank goodness NO ONE CRASHED..... :-)

 

An Ode by a Toad to the Most Beautiful Girl on the Road

by Kim Briggs

 

Always concerned about my dress, so I don’t look like a total mess

I gave her quite a fright, cause my first jersey was real tight

“You can’t go out like that”, ‘cause you’re so big and fat

So I donned a giant “T”, that went halfway to my knees

 

Now she never holds her nose, when I’m wear’n skin tight clothes

She pretends to really care with a smile, when I tell her about each mile after mile

If I accidentally wake her up too early, she’s hardly ever very surly

And if I’s happen to “crashes”, she say’s “hey…what’s up with the rashes”

 

She’s my first best gal at LOTOJAY, she knows just what to do and say

She feeds my face in that dang long race, and tells me to keep up the pace

Her ‘SAG Wagon’ skills are second to none, even when my legs are done

She tell’s me I’m a “wunderkind”, and makes me feel that I “ride like the wind”

 

I’m the luckiest guy ever to ride, ‘cause I have my first best girl by my side

She’s so skinny and cute and she still gives a hoot, ‘bout me and us and our family to boot

So thanks for enduring my woesome IQ, what I really want to say is “Vicki I love you”

She liked my Ode too little I fear, but I still must ask “can I ride it next year?”

 

 

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116

 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

 

 WE ARE TRULY BLESSED
TO  HAVE SUCH
GREAT WOMEN IN OUR LIVES

Winter Has Arrived

Our weekly Saturday ride was canceled due to Mother Nature.... :-( However, the blog quality has improved, (I mean pictures/videos....) with a NEW gift from the FAM, YES!

Stay WARM!

 

 

Todd & Andrea Wood, have you ever seen one of these?

 

 

Ride To LIVE!

PCRs, there has been recent excitement/enthusiasm by one of our riders to "Eat To LIVE", but I'm here to tell you "Ride To LIVE", is more important. I quote from his new bible by Joel Fuhrman, MD "physcial activity is the strongest environmental determinant of total body and central abdominal fat mass."

So, RIDE STRONG, LIVE STRONG and after a good 50+ mile ride, treat yourself to a BIG BURGER with some FRIES..... :-)

Riding helps you avoid a ride in this car..... :-)

 

Stay safe, healthy and on this side of the window!



Ride in RED

Saturday's ride was in RED, both in uniform and fall colors. I hope all you PCRs are enjoying this fall season as much as I am. Sometimes, it just makes you want to break out in SONG. All pictures are taken from the hood, can you guess where?

 This is why we start our rides early...

 Who's Door?

 

 Who's Tree?

 

Who are these Guys?
 

Moab - 4th Annual Fall Ride

Well, what does one say after an event like this. Each Director was well prepared, which made for an EPIC RIDE. A BIG THANKS goes out to Hawke's Towing Services for taking good care of flats that occurred in the first 3 miles of our 46 miles ride and towing us back to the cars in record time. Special appointed Directors to keep Scott Wood under control were fired even before we got on the bikes. No one told them it also included driving....

 Love My Men

 

 The Vistas are just starting

 

 How many PCRs does it take to change a flat?

 

 Feeling STRONG!

 

 I'm KING OF THE WORLD

 

 Biking with your women, WOW... Does it get any better?

 

 BROTHERS

 

 

 

 

It's NOT how FAST your RIDE, but HOW MUCH YOU TAKE IN that counts!

 







Fall Rides in Utah are the BEST!

As you will see below, this is why we live where we do. Where else can you physically ride 30-50 minutes from your home and see this kind of scenery, but in Salt Lake City, Utah?

PS - Watch my video clip first and then click on "Here Birdie, Birdie, Birdie" for a special treat. (Guess which one I am?)

 

 

 

 

  "Here Birdie, Birdie, Birdie"

 

Big Cottonwood Ride & Run

PCRs, autumn has arrived in this great state of Utah. This week was the 1st inaugural Big Cottonwood Marathon/Half Marathon and so a few of us took advantage of the closed canyon and left the valley early to ride to Brighton without ANY TRAFFIC.... IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

 WOW..... just one of the many great vistas

 

 The sun was shining early on the UTE flag
 

 

Max, you have one block left ........ 3:26

Just think how much faster you could have run without the back pack.... :-)