Monday, April 29, 2013

Week 17: Blazing Trails

Clean bikes and smiling riders?
This must be Mile 1 of our 100-mile
bikepacking overnighter.


Jania aka The Pace Setter.

One of Many C&O Canal Locks. Gnats Stadium!

Phil's Vehicle of Choice: Felt Nine Race

Jania's K2 T-9 Trailhead In Front Of A Lockhouse

Monocacy Aqueduct

Sunset Over the Potomac

Huckleberry Hill H/B Campsite

Mission Accomplished: Harper's Ferry, WV

Carry fully loaded bikes up steel stairs to a railroad track? Check.

Heading Home

Sure, rain gets you cold and get your bike dirty,
but it also keeps the gnats and pollen at bay.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Week 16: Younger With Age

2013 Colonies Zone SCY Championship:
A 3-day, 56-event super-swim meet.

Elephant In Captive

Party for a 40 Y.O.: Dudes wearing sunglasses indoors
at night with Patron posing for a grainy phone pic.

This type of speed will get you silver medals.

The beginnings of a custom built entertainment center.

Myth busted: Massive beards
don't slow Coach Tim down in the water.

Party for a 33 Y.O.: Wine, dessert, and candles at Clyde's.

Pre-race nervousness shares the same facial
expression of... constipation?

Inspiration: A 100 Y.O. racing in the 50 free.

Jania, moonlighting as a furniture carpenter.

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old.
They grow old because they quit playing." 
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Monday, April 15, 2013

Week 15: Cherry Blossoming

Sunset at the Tidal Basin

Jania at the Tidal Basin

Gangplank Marina, Washington, DC

EMD Flag Football Game

Fadul Parents at the Jefferson Memorial

 A Gift From Uncle Doug & Tita Evelyn

Goodbye Wiz! Til next season...

Crawfish at Captain White's Seafood City

Dragon Boat Practice: Team Lapu Lapu
(Jania busted her ass to get to this practice)

Cherry Blossoms and the Monument in repair
One Haitian bracelet, 498 tilapia. Happy Birthday Vin! 

Monday, April 1, 2013

Week 13: Live, Sing, Laugh, Swing! Hunt For Eggs!

Under the Wilson Bridge

"You Were Pushin' On Me"
Aziz Ansari @ DAR Constitution Hall

"Timbs 4 My Hooligans In Brooklyn"
90's House Party @ Mad Rose

Mt. Vernon And Back

G-Dubz

"Swingin' Ain't Easy"
Reston Town Center

Jania, at Rest, Looking At...

...Clouds Over the Potomac in Spring