Wife's on a tear...

Playing catch up as usual. A few weeks back we jumped into a couple of firsts.

I did my first SUP race - it was a lot of fun. Couple of points of comedy from the morning. The first is my vessel. One of my first observations upon arriving and getting checked in, was that no one else was having to inflate their paddleboard. The second was my form, which was actually ok, assuming a guy knows which way his paddle should face, which would be a fair assumption unless I was the horse you were betting on. Turns out you hold it different than you'd think, and I paddled the whole race with it backwards. The fun didn't suffer one bit from the rookie mistakes, and we had a great time meeting new people in a new to us sport. Not ready to run out and buy a race board, but will do more of these for sure.

After the paddleboard racing at Deer Creek we buzzed over to Park City to get Annie ready for her debut Mountain Bike race in our home state. I'd stuck her in a Mtn. Bike race at the Teva Games a few years back, which was her only previous experience racing a Mtn Bike and was a less than ideal course for her to cut her teeth on. Have been looking to get her going again, so, thought Bob and the Utah State Championship gang's race at Round Valley would be a can't miss event to make sure she had fun and a course she could manage. I also thought I was pretty sure how she'd do, and turned out to be correct....
Similar to her CX season, new and learning the technical stuff that comes with racing on dirt, but it will come. In the meantime, she can pedal pretty damn hard, even for a girl. And I must admit, watching her race from the sidelines ain't half bad. The 8 yr old did a flawless hand up of a bottle, and yelled at her to go hard. So how'd she do? She won her sport class, and even won the big check for the fastest overall womens sport time. Makes a guy kind of proud to get to hollar "way to bring home the bacon" to the chick of the house at the awards ceremony.

Here is also probably a good spot to give props to the Utah State Championship promoters. Aside from the big checks, which is a fantastic touch and a fun little extra something to race for, they put on a helluva race - they're a really great addition to the racing scene here in Utah.
Now, back to scheming how I'm gonna keep up with this gal.....