My pic just came out!

[Bad JuJu]

Pfft. There is no 'old' ... just 'experienced' ... 'seasoned'... and 'crabby'

I knew there was something I liked about you.
--BJJ, an experienced/seasoned/sometimes-crabby crone

[Kitsune06]

HA! Everyone likes that about me. I guess luckily for everyone, I've never gotten along well with people my age, and only now in my 20s are people of the same decade becoming tolerable. Why SHOULD kids not respect and totally dig people with more experience? I mean- they'll be there soon enough, and to be old and wise, you've got to be young and stupid first!

[pooks]

I just found this -- LOVE the pics!

You're disgusting, of course, you adorable hard-a$$ cutie-pie. NOBODY should look that cute and fresh at the end of the race!

[Kitsune06]

Cute and fresh? I was wiped! I put my bike aside, wobbled to the food tent, ate enough for a family of six, had one of my free beers, got home and slept for 3 hours!

but glad you like.

(side note: no, I didn't try to have the beer and drive home in that condition. I had a few sips, felt them go straight to my head (tired as I was) and did what any 21 year old biker would do in said situation, with full cup of beer she can't drink and a need to drive home:... I poured it into one of my water bottles and stuck it in the back of my car under my jacket so it'd be insulated, because of my 2 cardinal rules:
1. You cannot waste alcohol.
2. You cannot pass up a free drink. (though I had 2 beer tags...)
3. It's doubly bad to waste free alcohol.
It was a hefe so it didn't flavor the bottle, nor the bottle it, and it was still REALLY nice after I woke up and retrieved it from the fridge.)

[pooks]

Well, you <i>looked</i> young, fresh and sassy -- and many of us wish we could claim the same <i>before</i> riding 100 miles!

As for the beer -- great idea. I'll remember that one!

[Kitsune06]

Geez. I wish I could look/feel that way after 100 miles, too (or before!) but I just did 40 before that pic...

[DirtDiva]

When pouring your free, carbonated, alcoholic beverage into a drink bottle, make sure it's of the screw-top kind - the push-pull kind are no match for bubble power and you will wind up covered in Icebreaker.