a classic CAF I pic

With all the rain, the lake is sure to be a blast. A blast you say on the eve of the eve of the eve of the eve of the eve of the fourth of July. So we'll celebrate some Independence, and maybe we'll do it with some roman candle wars or by playing toss the gasoline soaked tennis ball or by throwing twenty bottle rockets straight into the firepit. Ah the entropy. I just heard Bill Cosby say, when denouncing youth violence, something like there's too much entropy today. So funny. The lines at the apple stores for the iphones are absurd. I'm still using 2 cent stamps to make all my old stamps proper. Bruce Willis is a badass. ok bye.

Kiel is Back!

Holler!!

Alexandre Vinokourov is your daddy.

That's right, Vinokourov will win this year's tour de france bien sur.

-the lion

ps- where is the kiel monster?

Tubing

Today I took advantage of a day off work to go conquer the mighty Boulder Creek, tubing style. However, the creek gods were apparently out to get me and dragged me into what seemed like every rock in Boulder Creek, giving me some nice scrapes and bruises to remember the experience by.



To add insult to injury, the creek also snagged my car keys that were tied to my bathing suit, and Spencer had to come to the rescue. Thanks Spencer.

CAF Throwdown in VT

Oh, snap. You know it's going down when the Chamois Army Fort spreads to the East Coast. Need any further proof of our nationwide dominance? I think these photos are adequate evidence...



Represent!




Getting my croquet on.



Congratulations, Meredith!

The New Guy

Hey everyone. In case you're surprised to see a new member to the CAF blog, let me introduce myself. I'm Andy and I'm taking Kevin's spot in the house for the summer. I'm originally from Richmond, VA and I'm out here in Colorado for school. I just finished my first year at CU, and spent the spring semester racing for CU's road team and had a blast. For the summer, I'm just chillin at the fort, working at Performance Bike Shop, and training/racing. Work sucks, but riding has been great. I've done two races so far: the North Boulder Crit and the City Park Crit in Denver. The North Boulder Crit was pretty much my first race outside of collegiate cycling, and I ended up doing alright, placing 12th in the 4's race. This past weekend in Denver, I raced the City Park Crit. This time, the combination of riding for my new team (AE Sport) and being pissed at the registration people for charging me a late fee AND a fee for not being registered under a team made me ride a lot harder. I stayed at the front pretty much the entire race, taking 2 primes and sprinting for 4th at the end. I made back my race entry fee and more, so needless to say I was much happier. Now I'm looking ahead to this weekend, when I'll be in Fort Collins doing the Rist Canyon road race on Saturday and the Fort Collins Crit on Sunday before I leave to go back to Richmond for a week. This weekend's race has a LOT of climbing in it, so hopefully it will suit me a little better. I'll let you know how it all goes.

Teva Games

Well, I just got back from my little adventure at the Teva Games, and I'm pretty blown out. I did the Ultimate Mountain Challenge, which was a downriver paddle, a mountain bike race, a 10k trail run and a hill climb TT on the road bike. The overall was points based, and unfortunately the paddle was pretty heavily weighted... 25 minutes in a boat is apparently twice as important as 2+ hours on the mountain bike. Lame! Oh well.


This, I like.


This, I do not like.