Singleswizzle and a puppy

Since my last post Anne and I have adopted a puppy from the Humane Society in Lakeside, AZ which is near Show Low about 2.5 hours from Flagstaff. We had been looking online at Lab puppies and German Wirehaired Pointers from rescues around the region but could not find one close enough to Flagstaff. While we were searching petfinder.com under German Wirehaired Pointers we found a puppy who's mom is a German Wirehaired Pointer and the dad is a mysterious unknown dog of some type. The puppy has hair like a German Wirehaired but is probably mixed with some type of hound dog and it should be exciting to see what happens as it grows up. We have to go back to Lakeside on Wednesday to pick her up after she is spayed. I spent this weekend down in the desert of Tucson and rode in Singlespeed Arizona 08 aka Singleswizzle which is a singlespeed mountain bike race/ride that is about 50 miles long and pretty brutal. I went down to get some riding in outside and to hang out with friend David. The ride was a lot of fun as we definitely were not competing with the more serious crowd. We managed to finish pretty much dead last but to our credit their were a bunch of people that did not ride the Chiva section of the race which was a pretty tough ten mile section but technically we still finished last. David managed the illustrious title of DFL (Dead F***ing Last) which is a celebrated position to be in as he received a cool handmade trophy (made from recycled bicycle parts) from local Rudy Nadler. The event was laid back and everyone got some shwag which was pretty cool and there was pizza and Pabst Blue Ribbon at the finish line. The key that defines this race and should give people the overall attitude of the weekend is the fact that about three miles from the finished exists the tequila tree which is home to a big bottle of Cuervo that entices riders to stop and take a break and a shot to carry them home.