RiverRock!

Dominion River Rock 2013 was pretty good. The events and schedule were amazing as usual. The weather was tough. It was a literal down pour for most of the day and night on Saturday. Cy did not love the rain but he was a trooper through it all. We got down to the island around 12:00 and got to see the Gibbon slack liners, the rock climbing competition, the kayaking race, the dog jumping contest, and Brad's mtn bike race. The race started coming down hard and heavy about 10 minutes after he left the start. He entered the Single Speed division this year which is a tough division. Basically, these are the guys that are so bored at actual mountain biking that they have to make it harder by riding a single speed bike. They are insane. Brad did really well and placed 6th over all. He, of course, was not happy with that (he likes to podium) but I thought he did awesome. The weather was horrific. He crashed 3 times and his breaks were totally blown out by time he got back to the finish line, so all things considering, he rocked it.
I had signed up for the James River Scramble 10K again this year, I love the course and it's one that Creighton and I really like to do. However, I had to bag it because of my foot. I haven't run since I hurt it on Wednesday and am feeling a bit irritated at the moment. I think I may go get an x-ray tomorrow...it's not really getting any better at the moment. Anyway, I bagged the race and was a total spectator on Saturday. It was fun.

Saturday night, we all met at the Lehman's house to get ready to head back down to the island for the Toot's concert. We all decided to ride our bikes since we were going to be drinking. They lived about 6 miles a way from the show. The ride there was easy, so was the way back but I had a hard time keeping it on the sidewalk :)

The concert itself was amazing. Toots and the Maytals are this phenomenal reggae band that has been touring for 30 years. They are just so good. The show was great. It was raining just a bit but the air was warm. The atmosphere was awesome, good loving vibrations from everyone and Toots bellowed from the stage. That is, until, some drunk 19 year old male decided to throw an empty vodka bottle at Toots and cracked his head wide open on stage. I was in absolute shock. It was just one of those surreal moments in life when you are just overrun with confusion. I realize bad stuff happens everywhere, all the time, but it's moments like these when I ask myself what the hell we are doing here, in Virginia instead of Colorado. I was angry, very angry. They caught the guy and arrested him. Toots went to the hospital and got 7 staples in his head (he actually slowly crept by me in a golf cart as we were all walking out and I just grabbed his arm and loved on him for a moment, telling him how sorry I was). The show ended abruptly and we were all escorted away. It was a terrible ending to a wonderful day. As we rode away on our bikes, all in a bad mode, we decided to head to O'Tools for some late night junk food of fries and buffalo chicken wrap (I paid for that one later!). We were all feeling much better after that and ended up getting home about 2am. I felt like I was in college again. All in all, all things in perspective, it was a really great day. Needless to say, we didn't make it back to the Festival on Sunday - feeling a little bit rough (bad food + too many drinks = a rough morning/day).