Rolling dirt fatness, squeeging white slop

So, last week on Friday I took my first ride off road.  Saturday was the first mountain bike race; the Decorah TT's.  Now, off and on, I have been racing this exact race since around 1995ish.  Crazy how old I have gotten. Well, there were several shocks. -My body was shocked by the 75ish degree weather.  Racing I felt like it was 95.  After months and months of cold weather riding, I was now in shorts and a jersey. -The shock of the TT is always jolting.  I think this was about the longest (time wise) they have had there. -I am on my fat bike all year on the dirt.  Why?  Because, that's why.  I was asked were my new Superfly was hiding more than once only to show them Proto, my faithful 9:zero:7.  Granted, the Superfly's are awesome.  However, I am old now.  I have the privilege of looking back at my time racing my bike and proud of what I have been able to accomplish so far.  I have taken wins in many disciplines of bike racing, primarily all off road.  I figured why not take the game at a different angle.  Plus, I just really enjoy riding Proto and hope to continue the streak all the way to Alaska (currently on the wait list for Iditarod). Anyways, I have been racing a mountain bike for more than half my aged life.  Trying to garner the maximum amount of speed on huge (heavy) fat bike tires is so, so different in feel and ride.  Doing so at Decorah were the trails are nasty, short steep speed killers was a shock indeed on that bike.  To compare for you Twin Cities trail riders, Martha Stewart is to Lebanon hills as Courtney Love is to Decorah Human Powered Trails. Well, I ended up 14th overall in probably the deepest field of strong guys that I can remember; 1st in the limited 34-35 age group.  The odd thing was is I went out for almost 2 hours the next day and felt much stronger.  Weird. This is looking down my street, 2 days ago, May 2nd.  Somehow Mother Nature decided we needed 15 inches of wet sloppy snow, in May; the first May snowfall in roughly 40 years and even then they only got a few inches.  Trees and power lines were down everywhere.  Crazy since last year we were 4 weeks or more into the mountain bike season the last several years at this time.  This week looks like highs in the 70's, so The Sandwich Enduro should hopefully be fine for next weekend.