Training

Time to break out the bikes. Plan on starting a running regime again of some sort and it does feel nice to be back on the bike. Although I literally tried to break it, the chain popped off and shredded my chain guard. Arg. Polkagrl has been having some bike problems of her own!

Apple Cider Century 2007

Wow! It was a great weekend for Team Crusty at ACC 2007! The weather was beautiful for a ride, and despit various ailments of the past weeks the team finished another 50 miler in 5 hours. This, of course, included madatory food breaks. It was a gorgeous ride and a lot of fun, people are in much better moods when it's nice and warm! Thanks to Three Oaks Spokes and fellow teammate Crusty Marcia for running another great ride. We're planning to extend our ride next year to a century... a metric century that is... 62 miles! Pics of the event are here.

Unfortunately this looks to bring an probable end to Team Crusty's 2007 season... Stay tuned for more adventures in 2008!

Boulevard Lakefront Tour

It was perfect weather for a bike ride, and Team Crusty hit the streets of Chicago early in the morning for the Boulevard Lakefront Tour. The route followed the boulevards of Chicago in the early part, past Goose Island Brewery (a SAG stop, but no free beer) through downtown and down the lake, which looked gorgeous! The ride ended with an excellent lunch, some beer from Goose Island Brewery and some interesting music from Mucca-Pazza. Photos will be posted soon to see. Team Crusty decided not to try to win this event and rather use it for training for the next event, the fabulous 50 mile ride through the roads of Southwest Michigan! Go Team Crusty!

Woe is Team Crusty!

Team Crusty made a valiant attempt at the High Trek Adventure a couple of weeks ago, but got thoroughly stumped on one of the clues in the first set. Having headed to two incorrect locations and lost a great deal of time, we were unable to get to 5 of the 6 locations in the second set of clues.

We drowned our sorrow in a free beer (always good for drowning sorrows!) after the event. And amusement over the "Mouse Cake" on offer at the fine establishment serving as the base for the event. Many, many thanks to our Team Crusty Support Crew: Dad, Marcia, Dan and Mom.

You can see our great pictures here.

Next up for Team Crusty: the Boulevard Lakefront Tour (BLT) and the Apple Cider Century (where still plan to finish and win)! But wait, there's more! 2008 promises more, exciting races... and dare we say, a much larger Team Crusty! Stay tuned!

Ready... Set... Hold on, just one more sip...

Less than 48 hours to Team Crusty domination! Yes, this is the last chance to get in on the Team Crusty Support Crew. Contact us before Saturday if you haven't already joined the team, we need as big of a brain as we can get! For those watching at home, we will have blow by blow details of the race after Saturday! Go Team Crusty!

Team Crusty Hits the Streets of Chicago!

Team Crusty will be hitting the streets of Chicago on August 11th as participants in the High Trek Adventure! This event is similar to the Urban Challenge we did a few years back - we will be answering trivia questions to obtain clues to locations we need to race to and photograph.

Stay tuned!

Locust Street Beer Run

Team Crusty (with newly accompanying member CrustyMarcia) successfully completed the Locust Street Beer Run, despite daunting challenges that included a bum knee, sprinklers, a late start time and an extra beer stop (ok, so that was time well spent!). It was perfect weather for a run, a beautiful sunny day. Team Crusty managed to complete the 1.8 mile course in a mere 35 minutes - woohoo! Imagine if we actually ran it! A half hour is the new goal for 2008. :-P

Team Crusty finished of the event with lunch and a beer at Cafe Hollander. Dee-lish!

See Team Crusty's photos of the event here.