Mountain bike Oregon 2008 Part 1

T minus 1 day to Mountain bike oregon

early

Went swimming last night at the 50 meter pool and only did about 600 meters and it felt like 6000 so I guess since it was the third swim of the year that's ok right? I am on to my base training now and planning on 6 days a week and have 11 months to go so not too concerned at this point. wow did i feel it in the core though after the workout......wow!!!! so got up early to run this morning and caught a shot of the sun coming up before I head to work. the race has now begun.....training is in fashion......thankfully most of it at this stage is just mixing in a lot of biking swimming and running without too structured of a workout. I just need time under each belt for the next month. Cyclocross season starts soon......

prepping for mountain bike Oregon this week

Too many bike????? NEVER!!!!!


Roberto putting on the new drivetrain



Chris recon of the upcoming weekend



OOOOOOHHHHH YYYYEAAHHHHHH!!!!

Olympics

today training will consist of some mountain biking for a few hours and some canoe time.....


Watched the Olympics opening ceremony last night, pretty impressive for sure......

Coffee is good for you...I KNEW IT!!!!!

see look...this is what I have been telling people for years!!!!

Shout out to Meeshe!!!!!

another great night of camping with my little superstar

Mountain bike

What a great but hard ride with the Katsch master. We rode a secret trail that I am not allowed to divulge the area. Big climbs, big downs, good terrain and great views. the ups kicked my arse for sure......but thats good because I am off to ride 4 days straight next week at Mountain Bike Oregon with all my bros. ( not my brothers but my bro's) . Also I got the hookup via Kratsch for a super sweet Bob trailer bag that was made here locally custom out of haul bag material and will make pulling our stuff better. The bag that comes with the bob trailer worked for years but this is a better design. I will test it out tonight as I take Jennelle camping again. Still behind in work and training due to being in Nebraska but a week that was well worth it.

Back on the west coast

After a wonderful week in Nebraska teaching future leader via NASC I am back in Oregon.....ahhh I did miss this place. back to training now....

Week in Nebraska

spending the Week in Wayne Nebraska helping future leaders in a week long workshop....even using the Ironman experience as a training session on goal setting.

Day 2 in SLC

My Bro makes a mean Martini




My bro still living in the eighties when he raced




Went up to the front range and then up Mill Creek.....ended up doing about another 35 miles this morning. off to breakfast and then to the airport to Omaha

Salt Lake City

On my way East to Nebraska, stopped in Salt Lake City and visited my bro and sis in law....We went road cyclung this morning for a few hours getting in about 33 miles of canyons. We rode from his house through town up to Emigration Pass.




Great Base ride and lots of cyclists out. Quite the grind up but not so much that it was uber hard.

I will do a recorded story with my bro and send it to Zen for a show.

Then of course most of you know that my two vices are Gin and coffee. So we had a sweet gin drink last night:

2-3 ounces of gin
1/4 ounce of lillet
twist of lemon

SWEET!!!!!


then this mornning after the ride we went to Jack Mormon coffee company and had a very good cup of coffee made with an $11,000 machine called a clover. check it out here.



The coffee bean I had was antigua and the drink was really good. no off tastes or falvors...kind of like a great french press. Would I pay that for a machine? uhhhh no. but the cup of coffee cost the same at the place we were at so good deal.