Iceman ...

This was the hubs fourth time participating in the Iceman Cometh bike race.  Every year the weather has been gross - from frigid cold temperatures to rain to rain, hail, sleet, and snow all wrapped up together! 

So this year, when the sun was shinning at the beginning of the race - I thought it might just be too good to be true!  But none the less, we posed for our "before" picture and off the husband was for a couple hours of grueling bike riding ...   

All smiles at the start! 

About 12 miles in we caught up for onre more peek at him ...

After seeing the hubs on a little single track, I {along with my wonderful parents who were there to cheer on the hubs} head to the finish line.  And it started to rain {in true iceman fashion of course!} but thankfully by the time we were outside at the finish the rain had stopped.

 I usually have a general idea of when the hubs will finish ... so when he wasn't finishing I turned to my mom and said something was wrong.  

I saw a couple familiar faces pass by who were in his start wave ... and then friends finish who started after him a wave or two - so I knew something wasn't right ...

And low and behold, FINALLY he appeared! 

And gave it one last little push to get up one last little hill before the finish ...

Come to find out, the hubs got a flat tire about 5 miles before the finish.  That ate up some time, a lot of time! He didn't have his tool to pop off his tire, and after about 20 minutes a friend passed by, asked if he needed anything, and so graciously threw him his tool bag to fix his flat.

So he finished, in one piece -and that was really the most important thing after all :)