Xterra Vegas!

Yes this is me on my new bike! Sweet huh? You are jealous of the color, I know!

My brand spankin' new Ellsworth Truth. I am secretly obsessed with it. You would be too if you rode one. It is quite a special treat for me to have a bike that fits, WOW what a difference that can make.

So Brett, Zeke, Boston & both of our sweet bikes packed up and hit the road to drive to Vegas.

Needless to say the Shepherds were a little short of real estate but were angels to travel with.

Loews Lake Las Vegas was insane, I wish we could have stayed Sunday night and just flaked out by the pool. It was warm and great weather and while we were gone the Vail Valley got 2 feet of snow. I know where I would rather be!

We arrive around 4pm Friday April 23. We checked in, I went to packet pick-up and then we head out to pre-ride the course - interesting. I am soo glad Brett was with me as the course was loose and sketchy in parts, I would have come home crying. There would have been no way Brett would have believed that there were such monster climbs that you had to 'hike-a-bike' and steep downhills where you felt like you were riding in a landslide.

I know that I sound like a baby but I have only been riding for 1 summer and the reason for that was I put myself in hospital the first time I tried Mountain biking and didn't get back on the trails till last summer. So I had a few 'oh oh' moments where I realized that I could really hurt myself.

Anyways we were trying to be strategic and there were parts I would have to get off my bike (to be honest it really was faster). As it turned out 90% of people ran the parts I did. The picture below is 'Monster Hill' at least that's what I called it - no one rode it it was too steep and loose & was faster and less taxing to just hike it.


That night we went to be early and watch TV with Zeke lapping up the opportunity to be on the bed - he is not allowed upstairs at home!