Cranksgiving 2008!!!

So I realize this is a really old post but im starting to feel like a really bad blogger. hmm maybe if some sponsors wanted to give me some incentives aka gift certificates or other useful goods and services i could work some serious product placement into this little baby? i would be a little bit more motivated w/ the blogz! just saying. Anyway, the Cranksgiving race went down a week or two before thanksgiving, and Adrianne persuaded me to join her team. I had in true fashion woken up at 9 am and was looking to kill some time. I was in.

we stopped at that place next to egg in williamsburg for some pre-race fortitude. we needed all the energy we could store up for the adventures we were about to participate in.


i remarked to Adrianne that the restaurant was like a pretend French cafe in old pariee. our server over heard us and proceeded to speak in French way longer than we understood/thought was funny. but he was probably showing off. i mean thats his right. how often does a williamburg waiter get to bust out his conversational French stills?
far be it from me to hate on his paper...you go girl!

after we were fortified w/ carbs and a little bit jittery from a few cups of coffee, we decided to hit the road. we schleped over the bridge and GODDAMN it was cold. my hands and feet went numb on the way over. we had to stop at dave's work ware just to get better gear! we got some "deep freeze" socks and i got some murderer style leather gloves. once we changed our socks and got some feeling back into the old feet pieces, we were ready to boogs.



arg sooo cold!

we waited outside for a while...maybe like an hour or so waiting for the race to start. Adrianne busted out her iphone for maximum route planning and i stood back, and jumped around trying to stay warm. i wouldn't' want to cramp her planning style!



then it started!

our new socks and gloves served us well! it was pretty frosty out but once we were off it wasn't too bad. it was fun to ride around the city and pretend to be a messenger for an after noon. we basically rode around the city collecting canned goods to donate for a food drive for the hungry. it was super inspirational, and once it was over we did a group ride over to a church and handed the food over to this really nice family/priests/church people. i was basically radiating warm fuzzies for the rest of the weekend!

Once we got back to the bar trudy greeted us and everyone chilled for an after party!



(well deserved brew!)

jenny and jake met us too!


All in all the race/afternoon was a success. We got to gather some food for the hungry and got some good physical fitness/fresh air in the mean time!
After Adriane and i got in from the race we decided that we owned it.


Cranksgiving race = owned!