A very MUDDY BUDDY!

The 2009 Austin Muddy Buddy was awesome! A great race with great friends.

The short story is it rained Saturday afternoon cooling off Austin. Temps Sunday morning were perfect in the low 60’s and overcast. The 6ish mile course was technical and muddy. I pushed the bike up quite a few hills! My partner Dee and I had a great time of 40 mins and some change which placed us first in the CO-ED 76-85 age group, combined age of 2 partners.

Our friends from up North, Mark and his daughter Jenna had a great race also and cut 15 mins off their time from the Chicago race last year!! Jenna also trains people, "Buddies in training", for the Chicago Muddy Buddy at Elite Fitness and Racquet Clubs. Check it out if you live in the Milwaukee area.

Check out some of our photos here. We have a short video from pre race below! The longer "Race" Video is kinda large and needs to be cut down, it will be up soon too! Race results and photos!

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