Lynne getting her first place medal at this weekend's Smokin' Spoke WORS Marathon race in Rhinelander Wisconsin.

With a win she has wrapped up the marathon series - first place in her age group - citizen class.

Congrats Lynne!

Here we go again!

WORS to move on to the next venue - drought conditions most of the summer.

Rain predicted for 8/21 & 8/23. With dry conditions predicted for well into next week. Can it be too good to be true? I ordered new mud tires from the shop today so that pretty much means it will be dry, right?

God only knows!

As I mentioned in the last post the conditions were horrible - If I didn't say it then, I'm saying it now.

Here a a couple of pictures courtesy of RUSTY




We may have a new addition to our bike family - Lynne might be getting this one: thanks Randy for the picture which was taken at TREK World this past week. The new ride is a Fisher HiFi Deluxe GS (2008 model - not available on the market as of yet) I believe

WOW! What a race we had on Saturday in Mt. Morris. Experts went out first at 12 PM. It started to drizzle shortly there after. The Rain fluctuated from light to moderate for the remainder of the afternoon and races. Lynne was able to finish her rain shortened event of 1.5 laps in first place (only woman in her age group to start) and third overall out of 20 or so.

I finished! And that's all I needed to do. The course was in aweful shape with most of the wooded switchback climbing and descending trails being too muddy and greasy for riding. Hike-a-bike was the plan of the day. Rolling the machine along in some areas only caused more hurt than it was worth. Mud adhered itself to the tires like dough. Stopping often to clean things up led to racers passing only to be passed once they stopped to clean their steed.

Oh well, I can only hope things in Rhinelander are better. See you there.

Sorry, no pictures as of yet. Maybe Bubba has some to share- http://www.casadebubba.blogspot.com/

Naturally! The central Wisconsin area has been receiving little to no rain and are in drought conditions. WORS plans a gig and there goes the drought! Can we trust the five day outlook?

Bring your rain gear - maybe we won't need it.

Racing this upcoming weekend at Mt Morris, course description here at MTB GIRLS'S blog. Mt Morris is located west of Oshkosh and south of Waupaca and northeast of Wautoma - map here.

Rain totals from Saturday 8/11 moring - Sunday 8/12 moring:
HI LO precip
WAUSHARA WILD ROSE-6NE-TWIN LKS 89 68 0.35
WAUSHARA WAUTOMA-4 N 89 63 1.03
WAUSHARA WAUTOMA-1 SW-DNR* 86 63 1.46

Daily updates can be found here: scroll down to find WAUSHARA County information

I'm hoping the area gets a bit of rain this week to knock the dust down. We wouldn't want to end up looking like this guy. Sorry about that! I didn't want to scare you off!

John

Raced WORS race # 7 last weekend and of course it had to rain during the overnight period Saturday into Sunday.

Lynne finished first in her age group and third overall.

I finished tenth in my age group - thanking God i finished at all. Conditions were horrendous to say the least.

Ben race in his first WORS race - Citizen Men class - age 10 - 14 years old - and finished sixth out of 12 or so in his age group.

Check out the photos below - and I thought I had a rough time of it! (you don't need to add the language add-ons as my computer was asking me to do)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/07/content_6487623.htm

Next race is at Mt Morris - a new venue and looking forward to it.

Until next time...