scott arrived in georgia on thursday, april 30th which was also james birthday.  he was my present to james on his 30th birthday.  (james is old.)  i have no picture from the birthday surprise though.

friday morning, may 1, we ate a gaint breakfast at aim’s, loaded up the car, and took off on the 2nd annual Joe Schum short bus ride benefitting large black dogs.  (notice Joe Schum front a center.)

i told scott the weather would be 85 degrees and sunny on the trip to ‘bama.  i should be a weather girl.

our trip would include the 110 mile bike ride to anniston, al on friday.  i was supposed to race sunny king crit the next day, saturday, may 2.  the cheaha challenge which is a 102 mile ride to the highest point in ‘bama was on sunday, may 3.  then we were to finish up with a 110 mile bike ride back to atlanta that monday morning, may 4.

i was wrong in my weather forecast.  it rained the first 60 miles to ‘bama, but we made it to the state line anyhow…and finally started to dry out along the way.

by the time we hit lively’s foodland, the sun had come out to stay and saw us into anniston.

once in anniston, we went to a nearby mexicain resturant for dinner.

after dinner, part of the crew hit the local bar… (boyfriend and i).

sometimes, i dance…

saturday morning, i choose not to race sunny king crit due to the continued rain, but we went down to cheer on friends.

go, boys, GO!

the next morning, we rode the cheaha challenge.  it was a bit harder than i had remembered the previous year.  i lied to scott…the highest point in ‘bama is quite a ways up there!

my (very smelly) shoe started to come apart on the ride to ‘bama SO i had to duct tape my shoes for the rest of our jounrney…

cheaha was the most fun i had had on a bike in a while.  scott was great company “even though he had to wait on me a lot.”

the next morning, we started our journey back home.  it didn’t start in the rain, but i think we made it 10 miles before the skies let loose and it rained, and it rained, and it rained!  we dropped 70 miles into the ride, soaking wet, and went to eat pizza and drink a beer.  ken and one of our other support vechicles came to pick our wet butts up!

scott and i were back home for a day.  we worked on bikes until 1:30am with tom that night!  so much bike work to do after 3 days of rain, hills, and etc…

wednesday, may 6, we were off to panama city beach fla…

i stayed with a lovely lady named Kaye.  thank you, kaye!  you were so awesome.

scotty was staying with his buddy shawn and helping out at the blue seventy tent.

we spent the next couple days getting ready for gulf coast half ironman.  then we did the racing…

i didn’t have quite the race i hoped for at gulf coast.  i felt like i was “trying” too hard the whole time.  it never felt smooth.  it never felt good, but as always in pc beach, fl, it was some after party.

we danced… we sang… we were merry.

clucker had great presence during the gulf coast awards ceremony.

i dropped scott off in clermont today.  that was the end of my journey with scotty and clucker.  i miss you boys!