Lunch Ride Tomorrow

It feels like Spring. I'm heading out for a lunch ride tomorrow if anyone is interested. This might help:

51 and sunny tomorrow in the "801".

Leadville 100 Postcard

Look what came in the mail today.....




Yep. It's official. I'm in for Leadville this year.

I've been checking the mail all week waiting for this silly little postcard. Tonight I'm in Los Angeles and I called my wife to see if anything special came in the mail today. When she told me I got a postcard from Leadville, I asked her to take a picture and email it to me. She replied "Um. no, that's gay..."

I've been debating about riding my geared bike and trying to break the sub 9 time or riding my single speed and hanging with Dug. (Dug- redemption will be so sweet). I think I need to give the sub 9 another try. Either way, it's going to be painful.

$240 bucks and 8 months of training just to suffer like a dog for 100 miles. It's crazy but I'm so excited to do this again.

Sweet Nectar

The kids got me this book for Christmas - "From Lance to Landis". I've really liked it. My favorite part of the book so far is when Tyler Hamilton talks about his attempt to lose weight and uses a diet of water and Diet Coke.

For years, I've been thinking about going off the Diet Coke but can never get myself to do it. I like it too much. I've thought it might help my cycling if I cut it out of my diet but after reading about Tyler driking it for his main food source and seeing how successful he has been, I'm sticking with it. It's my EPO.

My Cubical

I spend most of the day in a cube farm at work. It's a big cube with a window view but still it's a cube. I'm actually fine with it. But lately I've been thinking of making some changes to it.

The guy next to me has converted his cubical into a mini apartment complete with a full functioning kitchen. Seriously, his mini fridge has more food, drinks & condiments in it than my fridge at home (which feeds a family of 5). He has a full table setting for 3 (bowls, spoons, plates), he has at least 5 boxes of cold cereal, I can't tell if he has a microwave but based on the amount of frozen dinners he goes through, I'd bet he has one. And that's just his kitchen. Don't get my started on his family room or excerise area. I could go on and on but you get the point.

So if he can live rent free in his cube, why can't I have a full gym in mine? I could bring down my rollers, a spin bike, and my weight bench. Maybe a mini TV with a DVD player. I could save a lot of time by getting my workouts in while working. I think I'm on to something here and with Leadville only 8 short months away, it's time to make some changes around here.

Race Season is Near

Next weekend is the first race of the 2008 season. The Frozen Hog in Alpine. As if early season race pace isn't bad enough, this one will be in several inches of snow. I live just a few miles from the start line yet have never done this race. I don't know...I'm thinking about it.

10,200Ft by 8:45am

I met some of the DNA guys this morning (Dug, Joey, Sam, Jon, & Scott) for an early morning session before work. We got to a ridge up Days' Fork at 10,200 ft by about 8:45am.

In the background, you can see all of Cardiac Bowl (backside of Superior). We skied about 3,000 ft of white smoke and then went to work- Riding dirty as Sam put it (no shower).

I'm Not the Best Guide

What a great weekend. 40 miles of mountain biking in the deseret followed by a powder day in the backcountry with my wife. Big Cottonwood Canyon must have had 15" of some of the lighest snow I've ever seen.

I tried a new route up Greens Basin (between Silverfork and Day's Fork) and despite almost leading Rachelle off a cliff band, we were able to negotiate a route down and skied out safely. I need to work on my guide skills if I want to keep skiing with Rachelle.

Here is a pic near the top of Green's Basin (amazing tree skiing):