Slacker.....

As you can tell, I am being a complete slacker with a lack of posts lately (or at all since I started these shenanigans!). Lots to tell, but just NO time to post it! Finally went skiing last weekend (have some pics to post), and have been bombarded with school.....let's see, a quiz, a lab test, a presentation, and lecture exam all within a week and a half, and all in the same class! This weekend is a chance to rest. I FINALLY got to take the Mach 5 out for its maiden voyage today.....more on that later.....all I can say for now is, it was SWEET! I am in love with that bike.............no wonder the husband feels neglected.......

Mach 5-----The finished version!

Here it is in all its glory.......the finished version my my Mach 5! I can't WAIT to ride it! Now if it would just stop snowing..............................................A girl can dream can't she?

The New Toy in Progress

The cool, and very sexy, new red Magura Marta SL's, that match the red pivots on the bike quite nicely!

Should I be worried that my mechanic showed up, dressed head to toe, in Abercrombie & Fitch....to build a bike??????? Oh wait, I stand corrected....I think the jeans are Seven jeans....and even then I could be wrong! We all know that I am far from being the queen of fashion.

So, there you have it......we were at the shop working on it till 11:30pm the other night. Actually, Klint was working on it, and I was just there for moral support. We don't want me actually touching the bike, other than to ride it! I believe he finished it up this morning. I have been sick since Sunday morning, and wallowing in the misery of not getting to ride for the last 2 days. What really sucks is that I have a nice, new, pretty Mach 5 just waiting to be ridden! Maybe Wednesday....................

Chased by a Lab.....

So the riding here in G-ville has been KILLER lately! Temps have been in the mid 50's for almost 2 weeks now, and still no sign of snow, or any precipitation for that matter, for the next 10 days. While normally I would be dissappointed (trust me, I am the total die hard skier.....), somehow this year, I am diggin' getting to ride my bike OUTDOORS in the middle of January. I think it is the fact that I have seen my training suffer the last few winters, and I was SO used to getting to ride all winter long when I lived down in southern California. My fellow skiing buddies would kill me for what I just wrote! :) So life has been cool with all my riding lately, but today, of all things, I got chased by a Lab! Seriously.....a LAB???????? Maybe it is because it was yellow. My chocolate lab is the biggest bundle of love, I don't think he would hurt a fly. My yellow lab however, is another story! Maybe it is the color of their fur? It was totally unexpected. I saw the dog in the yard, but most everyone here in "rural Nevada" has their dogs on underground fence (electric fence, invisible fence...call it what you will.....), so I thought nothing of it....untill I heard a barking dog! I looked back (as I am starting to go up a slight incline) and was stunned. A yellow lab chasing me. Fortunately, as it got closer, I was able to yell at it "Go home", and go figure, it listened! Lucky me. Hopefully tomorrow's ride will be less eventful!

My New Toy!!!!!

Ok, so the moment I have been waiting for (or at least one of them...and you can ask all the guys at Pivot Cycles....I have been after this for months!) has arrived! My mom called me yesterday to tell me that I had a box waiting for me, and I KNEW what that box contained! I got to my parent's house as fast as I could (I wouldn't trust this, let alone anything being shipped to my house...the punk 14 year old who lives in the house up the hill from us stole a gas can out of our yard.....can you imagine if he got his hands on this?????).


I wasted no time opening the box......and found a neatly packed frame...with some "bonus" messages on it (thanks guys!). One side even said "for a good time, call Adam". My dad's first question was "Timari, who's Adam?????".

As you can see from the messages, my brownies have made quite the impression! Sometimes I start to wonder if I stay sponsored based on my brownie making abilities alone???????

Once I unwraped everything, I found this BEAUTIFUL piece of machinery! It is pretty sweet! Of course this is not my race bike for the season (although I am sure it will see it's fair share when the course demands the 5 inches of plushness that the Mach 5 has to offer!), it is my "fun" bike (not that my Mach 4 isn't a blast......I can hardly wait for spring/summer so I can test it out on the trails up in Tahoe).

Needless to say I can harldy wait to get this bad boy built up! Just waiting for a few parts, and I am good to go, of course more pics are to follow upon completion!

Merry Belated Christmas!

Merry Be-lated Christmas everyone! Meant to get around to this one (as well as posting many other blogs....) sooner! I have been caught up in the "Christmas chaos of working retail" however. I have come to the realization that ever since I have worked in retail, Christmas has never been the same (so, for the last 17 years....), you start to realize how crazy people can be, and you realize how many people don't understand the real reason behind Christmas. It is sad. I even tend to get upset with myself at times, because I too tend to lose sight at times, and have to put myself in check. All in all though, it was a nice relaxing day with the family. My brother was up here getting a reprieve from the chaos of LA, so it was good to have him up here. Today, him, my husband, and I all ventured off to Kirkwood Ski area for our first day out of the season. Talk about phenomenal conditions! POWDER, POWDER, and more POWDER, and not alot of crowds! Fortunately for us, the other side of hwy 88 was closed off for some time this morning due to all the snow we had gotten, so people from the Bay area couldn't make it up.....bummer! :) Our drive was interesting to say the least. We weren't even quite sure we would get thru since the traffic sign on the way up stated "Chain Control Ahead". We started seeing all the "Chains Required" signs, which every now and then means even 4WD vehicles have to comply. We approached the checkpoint and figured it would be the moment of truth (we kept our fingers crossed especially since I had already purchased our lift tickets online!). YES, 4WD with snow tires OK......good thing they didn't take a good look at the tires on my husbands SUV.....they are SO bald!

All in all, it was an awesome day, and my legs are soooooo tired!!!! (Didn't help that I sat on the trainer yesterday and did a bunch of single-legged drills---OUCH!) There was so much powder it was unreal, and it was great to actually get to try out my new skis from the end of last season in the powder.....so much nicer than my old ones! On the schedule for tomorrow is my first day ever cross country skiing! WHOOHOOO!

On that note, I am headed to bed to rest up...... I think my "little reindeer" is tired from all the festivities as well!

So, I am finally getting the ball rolling........

So I am off to a bit of a slow start here. I signed up for my blog about a month and a half ago, and I am finally getting around to posting something. The truth is, I have been rather preoccupied with schoolwork. My initial plan was to start this up back in September after I raced the 24 Hours of Idyllwild. I had this killer plan that I was going to win the race, and get to start the blog off on an awesome note! My plan almost came to fruition.......I was in 1st place from the 4th lap of the race, ALL THE WAY UNTIL the beginning of the 15th lap when I got sick on the side of the trail.......OVERHYDRATION! Who the heck overhydrates.....yeah, that would be me. Nonetheless, I ended up in 2nd place. Don't get me wrong, I still had a killer race, but not exactly the ending that I had planned. I swear, Idylwild went from being my strong race to this race that now lingers over my head and haunts me. Next year right?

After Idylwild, I went pretty much went straight to Interbike (I am not kidding on this one, if it wasn't for having to go to school that Monday, I would have gone straight there!). Things went good. I got to see all of my sponsors that I only get to see sometimes only once a year. All went smoothly and I am grateful that I still have all the same sponsors for next year that I had this year (with the way of the economy, I was sweating it a bit!). One of the highlights of Interbike......the fact that Pivot is making bikes in GIRL colors for next year! YEAH.......I will be hopefully riding either a pink or baby blue bike next season, and I can't wait!

Fast forward to now (not much else has gone on except school, school, and more school!). So, I am 4 days away from being done for the semester, thank goodness! I can FINALLY have my life back......at least for the next month or so! As for right now, I think I will wrap up this first posting.....I really should be doing math homework right now anyways! Instead I have found every possible way to procrastinate.......even decorated our Christmas tree in the meantime.