Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Iron Horse - The Road Race That Wasn't

Brian and I got into our car as fast as possible and used our connections to get into the top notch continental breakfast at the Marriott down the road. Waffle with scrambled egg and syrup on top . . . everybody wins!


On the way back to the hotel for a long day of nothing, we stopped at the City Market to pick up some fire logs. Our room had a fireplace, we were going to use it because it was an amenity. Amenities only count as amenities if you make use of them, otherwise they are wasted opportunities! Now that's am-bee-ance as can only be created by an artificial log made of post consumer recycled coffee.


Once it cleared up, we headed out for a ride. It is sad to say, but after two days off the bike immediately following a solid TT effort, my legs felt like garbage, absolute trash! I did my best to open them up on our group preview of the TT course for Monday. Brian and I headed out with Doug and the other members of HART who were out for the weekend, dodged rain drops, saw a couple flakes of snow, and broke the cabin fever. Post ride, we hit the pool at the Iron Horse Inn . . . let us never speak of it again.

We headed downtown for dinner and a few beverages at the Steamworks Brewery which was a little quieter than the night before. Town was starting to clear out pretty quickly following the cancellation of the road race. There was still good people watching all around.


I have no idea why we thought it was a good idea to catch this shot, wait til you see some of the others we took that night. We were able to meet up with our very own Durango Resident after dinner for a few more drinks, taking advantage of the Face Plant Ale offered as a special for the weekend. We headed back to our luxury accommodations to enjoy the remainder of the fire log.

1 comment:

Tim said...

wow, that is some breakfast, were you planning on riding back to durango if they held the race?