Skinny #1 Racing

I knew that riding here for a eight days straight would be a lot of fun. I just didn't know how much I was going to be in for.

I guess it was enough fun to give me some pretty sweet tan lines. I also have the ankle one going on, that's not quite as good, as well as the upper arm tan line. Not to mention the fact that I didn't use any sunscreen so my arms are starting to peel pretty good now.
My bike definitely likes the trails here a lot more than the ones in New England and Fort Collins. If only I could get my brake rotors trued then it would have loved those trails even more cause I would have been going a little faster. Actually, I must have blown through about three corners that I was just carrying too much speed into and went flying out into the desert...
I was definitely testing my speed on some days, mainly those days when I blew through the corners and ran into bushes and stuff. If there's one thing I learned, it's that nothing in Arizona is soft. Even the bushes that look soft are hard...my arms and legs are pretty scratched up.
Lucky enough, I didn't fly into anything that looked like this.
Look at this cute little guy I ran into. I never thought that there were turtles in the middle of the desert, but I guess there are such things. I don't know how they stay hydrated, because there was no water around at all.
For St. Patty's Day they dyed the fountain green. It's pretty cool looking when you're there in person. It's really weird because there's all these natural colors and then this bright green that seems so out of place.
You can't see that well from this picture, but those peaks are actually covered in snow. It was pretty cool, who ever would have thought that it would snow in Phoenix.