THESE ARE THE DAZE OF OUR LIVES

It's July and we haven't had a single race recap posted on here yet.  Shame, shame, shame......but, just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean the team hasn't been racing.  Well the team has, but I haven't.  But hey, I'm just the editor...and a bad one at that.  Get what you pay for.

Let's see, for the 2015 season I believe the team has competed in four different 100 mile races.  I wasn't at any of them so I can't tell you what they were like, however, Dub9 could.  He actually resurrected his only Angry Bees Blog and recapped a couple of the races himself.  So, lets do this race by race shall we?  Just a couple quick comments, some pix and a slap on the back side for an "thatta boy!"

I believe the first race of the season for the team was NUE's Cuhutta 100 some where near the Tennessee/Kentucky border.  Dub9 and Block made the drive down introduce the NUE to the MLMBC and see what this NUE series was all about.  100 miles on a course neither one of them had ridden before?  How hard could it be?  I'll let Angry Jonny tell ya:

http://jonw9.blogspot.com/2015/05/cohutta-100-rain-and-shine.html?_sm_au_=iVVJJ6Skr60fZHNH

Next up, Youngblood and his 100 miles of Hanson Hills in upper lower Michigan.  He was supposed to write me a short recap of his day...but never did.  So all I really required to say is he went there, won the 30-39 age group solo, got his medal, a slap on the ass and then left.  However, that scruffy little face is so adorable I just want to squeeze his cheeks and tell him "Whut a good widdle job you did Youngbloodly-Poo."  That sounds gross though so I'll keep that to myself.

We move next to the race no one wants to go back to....ever.  The Mohican 100 located some where in that sad state of Ohio.  The teams second try at an NUE race. Dub9 did the 100 mile race on his SS (with his new Lauf fork) while Diesel and Block did the Metric 100 which was 60 some odd miles that I am not educated enough to properly math out without googling it.  How'd the guys do?  Well, let's let Dub's recap the day's events for us:

http://jonw9.blogspot.com/2015/06/to-hell-and-back-mohican-100.html?_sm_au_=iVVJJ6Skr60fZHNH

He's so nice isn't he?  Let's see, what was after that.....ah yes, the Lumberjack 100.  The only NUE race held in Michigan.  I'd love to tell you all about this course but I have never raced it and constantly get made fun of for not doing it.  Dub9, Diesel, Youngblood and Block went north to compete in this and everyone finished in the allowed time.  Youngblood, Dub9 and Diesel all finished within a half an hour of each other while Block made sure so one got left behind who started the race.  Look for a recap to be written soon by Dub9 once he gets to the point where he forgot half the days events.  In the mean time, here is a cool aerial of the start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqBV6Il2U4

Coming up this weekend, Block and Soze will be racing in the USAC Tailwinds ILRA XC....that's a lot of capital letters.  The weekend after that Youngblood and A-Train will be heading over to Ithica to tackle an 8 Hour solo event.  THEN the end of the month marks the 10th Anniversary of the Tree Farm Relay!  The whole te1m, with the exception of Youngblood, will be out in attendance for that once.

And since I am back to racing again the recaps should come more often.  As we pass the half way mark of 2015, I just want to take a moment to say thank you again to our family supporters, fans, trail fairies, race promoters, psychiatrists, our parole officers, therapist, and all the cops who don't pull us over for doing 5mph over the speed limit or in some cases 6mph and of course our sponsors....Twin Six, ESI Grips, Carborocket and Loaded Precision!  You have all helped make this season successful so far.