What Didn't Happen this Weekend?

Let's cut to it....gonna be a short with the text and long with the pictures.

First up: Jon, Aryn, Brian, Mike and Ken were at Stony Creek Sunday for the annual Tailwind XC Marathon.  Jon, Aryn and Brian were there to do 50 miles while Mike and Ken were going to throw down 40.  After everyone was done pedaling their bikes for 3.5+ hours the team walked away with 4 podiums for the day.  Jon 2nd, Aryn 5th, Mike 5th and Ken 5th.  

2 Greens in one shot again!

Congratz to Soze on his first podium of 2014!

Biggest podium surprise of the weekend.  Big Block showing he can go the distance!

Then there was Skylar who was much further up north riding much larger hills than these clowns.  She held her own and pulled down a podium of her own in her class.  (glad we signed her early before she demands a larger contract)  And not only did she get third place, she got a plaque!  It's bigger than the four medals combined that the guys collected.

But before any of this took place on Sunday, Mitch and his wife Laurie welcomed a new METAL member into the family, Thunder Raven DeYoung....but you can just call him 

THUNDER!!!

So that's 5 podiums and a baby delivered in less than 24 hours.
I'd like to see some other team out there beat that.

The team has two weeks off before the next Tailwinds XC Race at Addison Oaks.  In the mean time, here's some pix of the weekend's events to keep you all entertained:

Leader of the pack

Before you know it Jon will start wearing pink to be like Brian

Team White Lightning coming in for a bottle exchange

Grumpy looking for a banana

Mrs Block with a textbook hand off

Soze has been known to sing out loud during races for motivation

Abi-girl given Daddy-O a bottle

Jon laughing because he realized he brought mismatched gloves again. Silly Dubs.

Plotting revenge

The Wrench in action

Still not sure what Ken was whispering into Jon's ear

Aryn at his happy place

Thanks to Twin Six, Loaded Precision Components, GU Energy and ESI Grips for getting the crew through another weekend!