Raccoon Mountain(just outside Chattanooga, TN) was the site of the SERC (Southeastern regional championship) #7 for mountain biking. We went down to Joscelyn’s parents house for the weekend but her parents were not there so we visited with Brittany and Blake and grandma and did some grilling on Norman’s new grill. By the way congrats to Debra and Norman for climbing Mt Leconte!!! The weather was perfect for the race,a balmy 70 in June, who could not beat that!! I started the race with 9 others riders in my class and was off to a fast start at the beginning but a big rock managed to get in the way and trip me up about 3 miles into the race. Joscelyn meanwhile had found a shade tree and sat down to do a little studying while she waited for me to return from the 12 mile course. But about 20 minutes into the race I came riding back to camp, scaring Joscelyn half to death and holding my shoulder and talking about “the rock.” I logged a DNF(did not finish) for the race but gave a valiant effort, according to my wife!!!!
