Dustin, Kevin and I headed down to the 4th annual Singlespeed-a-palooza in NY last weekend. I had never heard of this event before, but this was the 4th year Darkhorse cycles had run it. It draws a huge crowd of racers from New England, New York and even New Jersey. Yes, when then they aren't tanning or doing laundry, they like to ride their bikes....to the mall to buy hair gel.

Two Saturday's ago was the first trail building day for NEMBA here in Boston. I've been a member for years but this was the first time I actually made it to a trail day. 

Wow, this winter has been horrible so far, right? Unless you enjoy Global Warming and not skiiing of course. Last week there was promise of a storm. I was in communications with one Mr. Saltz about riding, even before I knew it was going to be good in the Mad River Valley. Little did I know Dbone had the same idea and was also talking to Jake about a trip east for the potentially big storm.

I'm happy that I waited for the results of this race to be posted before blogging about it. Yesterday my headline for this race would have been: Damn, my bike fell apart, last place finish but at least it was a nice day out.

Each year a bunch of friends from the glory days of iP get together for a long weekend of drinking and swearing. Over the years this trip has been the unofficial bachelor party for at least three of us. Until this year the party has always been in Vermont at Jake's parents place. Andrew got sick of buying plane tickets so he floated the idea of doing a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters (BWCA), and we did it.

Natalie and I went to Saratoga for the long weekend to live the Dbone lifestyle. Mike was also there, he does not have a job.

Yes, this ride happened three weeks ago...

I could just link to last year's race report and end this blog post. It was the same story. It was hot, there was a lot of fire road climbing and I felt awful the entire time.

We finally made it to the Kingdom Trails this past weekend. This trip was planned a long time ago to ensure maximum awesomness and the KT did not disappoint.

Welcome back to The Pinnacle, home of the plummet and the best EFTA race of the year, in my opinion. Last year I had my best race of the season here. Could I make it two in a row? Let's find out...