sunshine alleycat

i remember it as one of the first days of summer here, even though spring only officially started a couple weeks earlier. there i was just sitting around in scheveningen when i got a little facebook message from guilio checking if i was coming thru to amsterdam for the alleycat. what alleycat? the second in the series being organised by pristine. seemed like a good excuse to go show of my new pink bike with all its shiny brooks and sram bits in the sunshine so i set off.



the good thing about promising prizes is that people show up. add sunshine into the mix and everyone is having a good time. so, bring on the alleycat. the rules were simple, we were put into teams of six, you had to finish together, and you had to have all the answers, correct. as luck would have it, i ended up in a team with pierski and jur, and 3 other amsterdam locals. there were 6 checkpoints and 6 of us in each team. seemed logical that we each take a checkpoint, and meet on the park bench down the road from the finish.



as it turned out, we were the only team to split up, and we finished the alleycat in 37minutes. 2nd place arrived in some time over an hour. to the other teams' credit, there wasnt too much complaining. i guess it was a nice sunny day for a social group ride. anyway, we won! here is me holding up some of the aforementioned prizes :-) thanks to mirandawrites10 for the photos