Full Weekend At Home (last one for a while)

Friday evening was Ian's (and my) opening games (double header) for the 4th grade Defenders at The Courts in SGF. The boys played really good and got a split losing their first and rebounding (play on words) to win the second. .500 ball to start the season is good in our books. I have a great group of boys and look forward to seeing their development throughout the year. Since the games were at 8:50 and 9:30 we got home way late.


Saturday morning was all about sleeping in and then heading over to the SBU Homecoming Parade. Tom and Sarah Jones hosted our Sunday School group at their flat for breakfast prior to the festivities. We grabbed some eats then hooked it over to the Jr. High to watch some of Ian's team/classmates play in the 4th Grade Superbowl, which Bolivar won.





Afterwards Dale and I got out for a solid 2:30hr gravel ride taking in most of our favorite Stockton Lake/Nut, Rock, and Fruit Farm loop. Always fun seeing what kind of shape the abandoned bridge trail is in and as the below video shows it's an adventure. Ride was fun until the closing minutes when Dale took a gravel nap and skinned himself up pretty good. I wanted to rush him to the hospital, but neither one of us thought they could treat damaged pride so we skipped it - HA!
***For the record the photo was staged and not where Dale took a dive***

Back to the casa to change up to some gym clothes as Ian and I shot some baskets before catching some of SBU's football game. They were killing Central State so we only stayed about a quarter.

Saturday evening was all about the MU -vs- OU game and it didn't disappoint (if you're a Mizzou fan). Ian donned his garb and spent most of the night jumping up and down.

Jake hit night #2 with his youth group at a corn maze near Verona, MO. Word has it his testimony to the groups went great.

Sunday morning was up and on the SBU 'cross loops with Ira at the crack of dawn for 1:15hrs of bike driving with some hot laps thrown in. I put my tubies through the ringer to see if my latest glue job worked and come to find out it didn't - rolled the rear again. ScottyD sent me some information about Vittoria's having some kind of coating on their base tape which needed a lite filing to make better contact points (had not heard anything of this prior) - thanks SD.

Church, Mexican grub, Scrabble, soccer, basketball and a lot of cleaning/prepping the ol' tubies again, and watching the USGP online summed up much of the afternoon. Amazing Race and a late night 40 minute run (perfect weather out) wrapped up the evening.

Monday morning was... well, a Monday morning with Sram Force shifter #2 (#1 was in May) blowing up while on an easy spin. Hit the office for some 'essentials' work before heading to A&B where the crew contacted SRAM and got a replacement (upgraded to RED as SRAM is out of Force) on the way (supposed to arrive on Wednesday). Thanks guys (especially ScottyK) for the quick service.

The rest of Monday was pretty routine with the exception of the electrician installing Deb's under-counter lights, which turned out great. Ian and I hit the gym for a bit before kicking back the rest of the evening at home.

This morning was a weird early AM run in that the wind was cranking when I headed out (and pretty chilly), but was dead calm at the finish. At noon I headed out on the mtb for the city park and knocked out 1:30hrs on the outer dirt loops. I have no idea what it is about me riding up on procreation, but apparently folks have no idea there are trails running behind some of the east parking area and presto there they were going at it; it's high noon middle of the day in not a secluded area, get a room and out of the park where kids (big and little) are playing!

Legs and body are feeling really recharged from last week's active recovery. Heading to STL this weekend for 2 days (well, one night and one day) of Bubba. Much like Tulsa I enjoy going up against new racers and experiencing various venues. Going to jump in the A's and see how it goes.

Back-splash/tile guy got all his work installed this AM and will come back tomorrow to grout then the kitchen is 100% done. It looks fantastic and Deb is so happy (which trickles down to all of us). Only thing left is a door on the living room cabinet (which the installer dropped and broke) and then the dining room, kitchen, and living rooms will complete their facelifts. I will post pictures once all is finished.

Was heading out with J Bowes and A Coe to the USGP in Ft. Collins, but just got word they're not going so I guess I'm racing local that weekend. No big deal as sometimes life/reality takes precident over hobbies.