Saturday, June 21, 2008

He made the grade!

Today my amazing husband participated in a bike race here in the valley.  It was called "make the grade" because it is a 20 mile race, but a 2000 ft vertical climb up the valley's grade.  He came in 13th place over about 200 people and did it in 1 hour 2 min.  Pretty good since the winner did it in about 57 min.  His bike has been out of commission for the past month so he felt a little out of shape, but I thought he did really good.  


This is the hill he had to climb.


This is a picture from the top of the mountain that he climbed.  He started down by the river.

Sorry this one is so blurry.  You can blame it on me because I was trying to hold a crying baby and take a picture at the finish line or we will just say he was moving really fast!





2 comments:

Kristi said...

13th was the best you could do??!! j/k Congrats Daniel...you ARE a machine! Probably that amazing jersy you were wearing that did it! Keep on biking! Luv ya!

Anonymous said...

Wow! Dan is either a maniac or... a maniac! Good job coming in 13th, I think that qualifies you for stud status. :-) Good pictures, Trisha... You're getting good at that one-handed crying-baby-on-hip stuff! (from Amy S.)