Relaxation.

The season is almost over.  One last race for me as long as it's not raining. Turkey Day!  

Turkey Day is always a fun race for me as it fit's my style of racing.  You know it, a bunch sprint. 

I'm looking forward to a Turkey!  The last one I got was nice... 

This weekend I took it off the bike as I spent it with the wife and kids. 
On Sunday, I decided to take the kids on a tubing trip, as on my way out to Page Valley Road Race, I passed a tubing place and decided that I should make a trip out one of these days.   Sunday morning we had a leisurely drive out to Front Royal and went out to the Front Royal Canoe Company .  We arrived and met a guy directing parking.  He asked us about reservations and of course we didn't have any as I didn't know the place's name.  He said that we should be okay, however he hesitated to guarantee that we would have tubes.  We checked in and luckily they had enough tubes.  I would highly recommend that you make reservations as they were packed!  Tubing was very relaxing, however, since the water was low there were points where we hit bottom and had to basically get up and walk over the rocks.  Also because the water is low the pace of the river was slow, very slow, where we had to spend much of the time paddling with our arms.  It would have been a really relaxing day if we wanted to spend it drinking, snacking, and laying out on the tubes, however with kids, it's a different story. So we paddled and paddled with our arms, the final 300 yards, the river was pretty much a dead stop and it was the toughest for the kids as they were tired and starting to get cold.  Luckily, a few canoes came bay and they hitched on for a ride.  It took us about 3 1/2 hours for the float down the river.  The guides said that it could take between 3 hours to 6 hours (more towards 6 hours if you didn't paddle).  It was a nice relaxing day.