Bikes!

So this weekend was the annual Tour De Tucson, a massive bike race in and around the general Tucson/Pima County area. Apparently this is a national (and actually international) event that's a "big deal" to professional cyclist as well as sport cyclists of various levels.
Website:

http://www.pbaa.com/!ETT/ETThome.html

If you click on the link that shows you the route, actually just click here:

http://www.perimeterbicycling.com/!ETT/ETTMapCue.html

Anywhoo... if you give that a gander, take note of mile 47 near the upper right of the circuit (Bear Canyon, Snyder Rd, et al). That would be where our house is, like literally... where our house is. The route doesn't take the racers through our neighborhood, but it does go through several near us, and clogged up the two main ways out of ours for most of Saturday. You could drive out if you wanted to, but it's kind of a hassle. We stayed in and walked up the road to take a peek.

Here, we're at the top of a pretty nasty little hill that borders our neighborhood. Many people's butts got kicked here. Not many folks got off and walked it, but people were chugging pretty good.

Here's some shots from back in and around the neighborhoods that the race did take place in Note the dude smiling for the shot in the next pic. We didn't even see it until we got the pictures loaded up on the pc tonight: