Boyne Marathon Weekend

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24930987.post-39881022015233233392008-07-12T21:23:00.003-04:002008-07-14T23:18:24.384-04:00Boyne Marathon Weekend<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_etLKMJLZCnU/SHwW-rRfohI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/P4XZW5e36bE/s1600-h/IMG_0010.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_etLKMJLZCnU/SHwW-rRfohI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/P4XZW5e36bE/s400/IMG_0010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223074933866734098" /></a> After a week of silly stressing over the bike the weekend turned out awesome!!! Joe Lee and I rolled up in my Charger Friday morning... A fun pre-ride lap of Boyne with Favata and then we were off to the Red Mesa Grill in Boyne City. Seems like there's always something going on in that little city. They had the streets blocked off with some off shore boats on display, a few bands set up jamming, and gymnasts in the park. Race morning looked nice till it started sprinkling. Forecasts for thunderstorms had a few people pass on the race. Well it only sprinkled long enough to make the pavement shiny and then about 20 min before our race it stopped and by mid race we were bakeing in the sun. It was a bit of a bummer there was such a poor turnout. I thought with the Michigan road scene having nothing on it's calendar this month we might get a bunch of those guys. Guess the price at the pump is really having an impact. So 5 guys started my race. Hmmm... Just finish and I'm in the money. :-) The race was fun. It's hard to beat Boyne with it's fast flowing downhill runs. One interesting course change was the final loose gravel downhill from the past couple years was replace by a golf cart path downhill. That was pretty cool. Brent even did a marathon for the kids race.. They rode a timed 30 min race... And after the awards Joe and I were off to the LumberJack.. 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