Breckridge in the Fall - Changing Colors and Cyclocross

As the last remenates of all of the illnesses are nearly gone (reads- almost done with 10 days of med.s) the family is getting back to what we love to do together - bike racing. We spent the weekend up in Breckenridge and had a lovely time. We even picked up a few extra kids for the time we were there.

The Frisco race series is one of our favorites.

Ellie had a rough ride on Saturday as her breathing is still impacted by having been so sick for so long. I also think dehydration and altitude played a part, too. Altitude has an attitude when you are 4320 feet higher than you are used to. I was proud of her for giving it a go. Sunday was so much better. I think she was happy to find that she still has her technical skills. Now she just has to get the cardio lined up again. Still, she placed second both times.

I was surprised when Ethan wanted to race on Saturday.As you can see here, he looks pretty happy. About a week ago (or so) he was injured playing football. He had a bad crash on his bike at the P4P ride on 8/28 and the injury was in the same spot. He raced through the pain, even with the injured rib sort of sticking out a bit. It was bad enough that he had a heating pad on it during our ride up. Nonetheless, he seemed to have fun and raced into second place.

To add to the fun we had Ariana and Stephen spend the weekend with us. It was a full house in our studio over at the Beaver Run Resort.