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After another sustained week and another presentation for lab meeting (this time explaining all of the nitty-rasping details of our plant expression system), I headed home and looked ahead to an enjoyable, non-competitive weekend.

My original plans were to go to Journey de Fat on Saturday, volunteer with the recycling group on campus to get free of charge beer, and then go hiking somewhere on Sunday. You know what they say about the best laid plans...
Since most of my out of one's mind ultimate friends (with whom we had dressed up last year) were in Colorado for a meeting and my grad school friends were being lame, I was just about to source out the door in normal street clothes for a full day of debauchery involving bikes and beer in Tempe Beach Greensward when Hannah called and changed my entire weekend map. Rick from Sierra Adventure Sports had e-mailed us (Duo ODP), and asked us if we wanted to defend our Extreme Heat victories in the last stock of the series. After the Gilmore AR disaster, we had decided not to enter any more risk races until we got some more training under our belt, but we couldn't refuse a casual race. It was SAS's first night adventure race, and we were excited to say the least.
I still had until 3 p.m. to from Tour de Fat, so I headed out on my bike towards Tempe, tried to redress my seat while I was still riding (not recommended), and promptly rammed myself into a parked car, bruising my out thigh and crumpling to the pavement not 100 ft. from our house. I returned to the edifice, cleaned up the new gash on my left knee, and headed out again. Peregrination de Fat is one of my favorite events of the year, and this year was no exception. Although I had missed the bike file, there were still thousands of people at the festival enjoying...

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