Have you ever shoved your face into cake and as you're face down up to your ears in cake you realize "crap! I can't breath!" Well, switch the cake for for snow, your face for legs, and instead of having cake and icing up to your ears it's snow up to your knees and your thought is "crap! I can't move!" That's what happened about 10 days ago. We received 17 inches of snow on February 5th-6th! I love the snow and any time we get any I throw my snowpants and boots on and out the door I go. Having gotten a total of 3 inches last year I was THRILLED to get 17, but that also meant... no riding. I'm not going to complain and say I don't want the snow, but it did cut into my riding schedule. Four days later the roads were fairly clear and there was a small berm on the side of the road to safely ride. Then winter's friendly face showed again. On the 10th we got another bout of snow, 10 more inches, rendering the roads unsafe again! I took it all in stride and decided to just take a break from riding and trade in my cycling shoes for snow boots.
You can tell by my face that I was reaching uncharted speeds
So for the past 10 days I've been spending my time off from riding and work, sledding down the hill in the backyard with Bec, building a ramp, and building a rail to ride my snowboard on. It has been a blast and there's still about a foot of snow left which means there is plenty more snow fun to be had.
Time spent riding - 0
Time spent in the snow - 10 days
So I'm not sure how it happened, but one of the creators of the DOUGHMAN competition found my blog entry about "training" for it and left me a nice comment. He also corrected my statement about who started it. Duke University had no part in the creation of the competition. It was the sole invention of 4 creative minded friends. I would like to thank Jeff the DOUGHMAN - we're on a first name basis - for giving me recognition on theDOUGHMAN facebook group. I was super excited just to get to participate in the event, let alone be featured on the group site, so thank you very much. Only 4 more months until the DOUGHMAN... can't wait!
