The 2009 inaugural Ichabod's Twisted Two-man Time Trail is in the books! The day proved to be twisted start to finish. The first unexpected twist came via an early pre-race crash. Larry S. had the unfortunate experience of touching wheels with Neil and going down hard. This happened before the race was underway. I am happy to report that after being checked out and diagnosed with a concussion Larry has said he's doing OK.
The weather also threw in a twist and at race time the temp was in the mid 30's and the wind was stiff out of the west. A few snow flakes even flew early in the day.
After things where sorted out three teams of two were on hand for the race. Team Claflin/Connell featured 29er rigs to tackle the course, Team Eerdmand/Hemstad chose a mtb/road bike combo, and Team Will/Thompson picked bikes with a cyclocross set-up.
Each team was required to guess what their finishing time would be and the race was on! A LeMans style start was choosen with riders starting out on foot and running over to their bikes to start.
When things where all settled this is how it shook out. Finishing third was team Eerdmans/Hemstad with a guess margin of 1 min, 54 secs. In second place was team Claflin/Connell with a guess margin of 1 min, 40 secs. The team with the closest guess margin was Team Will/Thompson with a margin of 1 min, 3 secs.
Many special THANK YOUS are in order. Carol and Jorge both showed up to cheer and brought treats. Carol ended up bringing Larry home before the event even got started. Amy and Melinda also showed up to cheer, but ended up ferrying Larry truck and bike back home to him. These were special acts of caring and kindness. We are blessed to have such caring friends. Thanks also goes out to each of you that came to participate just for the fun of doing it!
Stand by for another Ichabod's Twisted Two-man Time Trail next year. A few new twisted ideas were floated assuring that next year should be even more fun.
Trailhead Cycling in Champlin will once again be offering Spin Classes over the 09/10 winter season. Two formats are available this year. Sessions begin in early November! 
