What can you say?! 

A little post-race dinner at the Rainforest Cafe on the Riverwalk... the kids' all-time favorite restaurant! 

Tiny Kiersten in the middle of the pack at the start ... the day's racing begins... 

Hanging on to Noah's wheel... 

The youngest age group still needs to learn something about drafting... Kees knows about descending though because he hit 33mph and spun out his junior gears on one big descent! 

Doing some hurting trying to bridge the gap. 

Outclimbing the little guys to the uphill finish... not an easy task when you outweigh them by 30 pounds and are a sprinter and not a climber! 

He and I both were set for haircuts this week and got cancelled ;-) 

Kiersten being cheered up the last climb to the finish... she had miscalculated the weather and had on too much clothing and got hot halfway through the race... who knew all that black would be warm?

;-)

Notice little brother in the middle of the picture cheering her on! 

Finished... hot and tired but she gave it her all! 

Lining up for the junior rollout... for some reason Kees barely passed when his bike normally rolls out perfectly. 

Thanks to the folks at Bicycle Sport Shop for setting us up with a bike for the race... it was a teeny bit too big and I watched in amazement as the mechanic took a hacksaw to the carbon post to get it to go down low enough to fit Kiersten! 

Jan Ulrich retires!

It's a sad ending to a fairly sad story... but I always loved watching Jan race and thankfully we got to see him in his last Tour de France, here finishing far behind Lance in Courcheval. 

Test Day

As part of moving up the belt ranks you have to take an oral exam and then demonstrate certain skills... here he's answering the questions from a high-level black belt. 

Sparring with a green belt.