Urban Assault Ride 2008

Beer, Bikes and Big Wheels. What more do you need to get you up and out on a Sunday morning?

NLBG loves partaking in silliness, after all, and the Urban Assault Ride provides ample opportunities among the 8 obstacle checkpoints (plus the FOUR mystery checkpoints this year!!)!

Pre-ride
Racking bikes, nibbling Clif bar samples, doing PT exercises...

 

Check out our intimidating uniforms! Watch out,  NLBG means business (well, almost)!

And then we were off, riding up Lavaca to the first mystery checkpoint on 43rd, before scooping up bottle caps with oven mitts at Ozone. Three more mystery checkpoints to catch and many more obstacle checkpoints to complete! 

Here's a look at the Pease Park obstacles:

                      

For me, this keg walk was tricky -- my feet kept getting stuck below the rim making me want to stumble. 

Other silliness: bike jousting at REI (we had to trade places on this one -- loaded down with Ricky, I just couldn't pedal well enough to get us really moving!), towing a keg in Lady Bird Lake at the Rowing Dock, newspaper toss at Bicycle Sport Shop (we went 3 for 3!), bike limbo at Jack and Adam's, human bumper cars at Rogue Running (even though I was double-teamed and laughing hysterically, I grabbed all four wiffle balls from the bucket at the same time -- think my laughter distracted my opponents!), mini-bike pedal at Jo's Coffee, and the grand finale, our all-time fave, the big wheel course and giant, inflatable water slide at the finish at Run-Tex . Getting wet felt good and refreshing, but there was another reward waiting for us:

 

Loads of fun once again!