The Bauer Family

  So fall arrived quickly and a lot of things have happened over this last month.     JJ and I celebrated our birthdays.     Brendan started soccer.    JJ started Marching Band.   Brendan and I held a Lion!   School has also started and the boys are both doing very well this year.  JJ started Drivers Education and will be done with the first phase next week.  I have been off the bike for 2 weeks now and will be changing that tomorrow.  Brendan and I will be riding the tandem at Peak 2 Peak in 2 weeks.  This is in preperation for the Slush Cup at Iceman.  We need to get JJ on the bike also to prepare for Iceman.  He will not be riding at Peak 2 Peak this year.  I guess this is all for now. 

So the boys were doing the Junior Rock at Ore to Shore again.  We got there with plenty of time to spare and got them ready.  This would be the third time they were doing this race.  Ready to go!   So we did a little more up and the boys got to the starting line.  There were only 3 boys in JJ's class and 52 boys in Brendan's class.   JJ's at the start line.   So the race started and the boys were doing well.  JJ started several minutes ahead of Brendan and I.  So I did not know how he did until after we finished.  Brendan started out great but got hit by another rider about 100 yards into the race and he crashed hard.  It took him a while to recover, but he did and started to pick up the pace again.  Around the halfway point he ran into the back of another riders bike and crashed again.  He went down hard and was really dirty after this one.  It took him over a mile to snap out of it and he started t...