Teak is IT! The PDX Ronde 2011 is not it!

Teak is it! (Plantation teak of course!)
- about bloody time for a dining room table!

more furniture coming soon, as Cassie is making me buy stuff!

PDX Ronde April 17th 2011
A year seems to have rolled by quick, I can still remember the pain from the 2010 PDX Ronde. The annual unsanctioned bike ride which climbs the steepest hills in Portland on a 50mile course.

There are two climbs which are very steep, the rest is just long and grueling. The first is Brynwood which is ony 0.3 miles long but very steep grade, most people cannot ride it. You are stood up on the pedals almost falling over the handlebars leaning forward, moving at less than 4mph.
The second climb is College which is a bit longer and not quite as steep as Brynwood but the same thing, turning the pedals so slow, leaning right over the bars to stop you from falling back, yet trying to have some weight on the back wheel to make you go.

mudpit mountainbike race

Did a mountain bike race yesterday, called Hornings Hideout, fairly close to home.
It was really wet and like a mudpit, not too enjoyable. I'm a little bitter about the 3hrs I spent racing in the mud, crashing 15-20 times because the mud was 4" thick on the downhill sections... and the organizers didn't know what the bugger they were doing and oh it cost me 20quid to enter... yeah. utter crap. not fun at all.
The good news is because of it I also missed getting home to watch the Paris - Roubaix race on the telly. Bad Sunday.

2012 Up Yours, Hornings