Karl and Cynthia are racing in the Big Blue Golden Gate AR 12hr tomorrow - going for more series points in the 2 person co-ed division. Much luck guys! Race hard!
August 2006
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Sun 27 Aug 2006
Thu 24 Aug 2006
Check out http://www.cyclepath.com for more info.
Test ride any of the following bikes:
- Scott Ransom
- Scott CR-1
- Specialized Stumpjumper
- Specialized Tarmac and Roubaix
- Cannondale ENTIRE Womens Group
- Cannondale Rush and Synapse
- Trek NEW Hi-Fi and Sugar
Where: Pleasonton Ridge
- 680 to Castlewood
- Left on Foothill
- 2 miles, right side of road
See you there!
Fri 11 Aug 2006
Race: Shooting Star Adventure Series SVS #2 - Del Valle
Date: August 5th, 2006
Site: SVS #2 - external link
Racers: Karl and Cynthia Royer, Randy Franklin, Brandon Nugent
Rating: 3.5 Wheels
Location: Del Valle Reservoir, Livermore, CA
Nugent’s Version:
It began like a lot of last minute ideas begin, last minute. Like that week.
An instant message from Karl was all it took.
“Hmmm…”, pause for 5 seconds.
“Let’s do it.” Done.
So I was in Oregon for work that first part of the week, and almost didn’t make it home from the airport due to a ruptured radiator on my Jeep.
The Jeep was going to be the thing that got me to the race. How crappy would that have been to have the radiator blow on the way to the race?!
So Randy offerred to drive from Reno to Campbell, to sleep on our floor, so he could drive my butt and gear over to Del Valle. Turns out our carpet made his ear swell up. I am a terrible host. Word of warning.
We get to the race and proceed to get our gear and everyone all over to the start/finish TA a mile east of the boat ramp. Race director Mike has Rube-goldberg’d a method of getting all the kayaks dropped off at the ramp over to the TA. It was impressive.
Set up the TA, discuss our race strategy, and look over the maps. Randy and I both grabbed a park map with the trails (Karl and Cynthia knew the area so we were doubly prepared).
We transposed check points onto the park map and double checked our work. It’s one thing to transpose what you think should go where. It’s another to be right about it.