Marc & Laura are linked!

Dirt Dad Marc & Laura were married on May 30th at Central Wesleyan Church in Holland. The reception was at the Grand Haven Community Center Mackinaw Room. Dirt Dad (and Marc's brother-in-law) Rusty was the Master of Ceremonies. Other Dirt Dads present were Brian, Tim, Bob, Harv, & JP. Congratulations to a great couple! We hope you have an awesome honeymoon. Laura, the Dirt Dads look forward to getting to know you better.

Marc, please tell us how you and Laura liked the wedding gift. Our wives think we're all crazy. You may tell Laura it can be used as a bud vase holder, too.

See more photos at the Photo Archive link on the left.

Regarding road bike riding, Brian pedaled 70 miles and Bob cranked out 100 miles on the day of the wedding. Inspired, JP, Harv, & Tim pedaled 50 miles the next day, a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

North Caroliney 2009!!!!!!!!!!

JP, Brian, Bob, Mark, Eric and Tim embarked on the NC2009 trip. Eric drove up from gatorland… After Arriving at Pisgah NF, NC and setting up camp we blasted down many trails, and crawled up many more. Some trails offered more pain, blood, and bruises than others!

The traditional Claw Hammer climb of death, then Avery Creek with a flowing but rocky downhill. The classic Caney Bottoms and Pink Beds. Daniel Ridge with breathtaking waterfalls at the bottom.

While in Dupont State Forest we explored some new territory and a little old. The Ridgeline trail was da bomb by far!!! None of us could get enough of the Ridgeline with a super fast flowy singletrack downhill.

Squirrel Gap was a crazy technical uphill grind along the ridge all the way up (which never ended). The downhill bought Brian a trip to ER for stitches and bought JP a new helmet. We did not miss Black Mountain either!!

Lots of food, and lots of food…

Mountain Biking and BMX

My neighbor, a "BMX Dad", sent me this link:
www.mlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2009/04/grand_rapids_mountain_bike_tri.html

Check it out.
Dirt Dad HP

Vacation in Gatlinburg

Here's a few pictures from our trip to Gatlinburg in March. We had great weather it was sunny and 70 degrees almost the whole week. I went golfing twice with Joni's dad. That was enough to remind me that I like cycling much better than golf. I went for two road rides. It was good training for riding clawhammer, everything is either up or down .We also drove over to North Carolina for a day. We drove through the campground and went to the fish hatchery, checked out a few waterfalls then we ate at the world famous "El Chalupa". We took a scenic ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway on the way home. That would be a great road too ride road bikes on . Well North Carolina is only two weeks away, Can't wait to get down there and ride.

VanDirt

nice day to ride

Heres a pic from my first ride of 2009. It was sunny and almost 40 degrees. Can anyone guess where this is? Its supposed to be warm all next week so lets get out and ride.

VanDirt

First Race as Dirt Dads, 2003

I was doing some cleaning out of my basement and came across some photos of biking from years ago, including this one from the 12 hours of Pando, year 2003! It was the first race as a team named "Dirt Dads" and featured Marc, Rusty, Harv, and JP. I remember the day as very hot & humid.

I scanned and uploaded the photos on a new album called 'Pando 2003' and added others to 'Iceman 2008' and 'Misc'. Look for them at the Photo link to the left.

Ice Man Update

Congrats to the Dirt Dads for completing another IceMan Cometh Challenge!

Bob - 2:07:57

Brian - 2:10:57

Marc - 2:14:37

Tim - 2:20:16

J.P. - 2:49:56