May 15, 2007 on 6:12 pm | In Uncategorized | 4 Comments
The weekend before last I competed in the olympic distance triathlon course at Wildflower. This was my second triathlon but first olympic distance. The experience was amazing. The challenge, excitment, and competitive atmosphere all added up to a great weekend. Meghan and I camped out with the medical team for two nights. They are a fun AND loud group.
I ended up placing 20th out of 57 people in the 20-24 year old age group. I finished in 2:55:21 and my goal was to beat 3 hours. The triathlon consisted of the following events in order:
1. 1.5K Swim
2. 40K Bike
3. 10K Run
In the photo above is me and Andy (the competition in my age group).
April 4, 2007 on 9:23 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments
March was a month of firsts. My first triathlon and first public mustache. The triathlon was amazing. The mustache…not so much.
February 25, 2007 on 10:11 am | In sierra summit, snowboarding | No Comments
The first time riding Sierra Summit mountain (or as most affectionately refer to it as “Sierra Slumit”) I vowed never to go there again. The snow was hard and icy where there was coverage. Lines were long. The lift operators noticeably dislike their jobs. In short, all signs point to “go somewhere else” but Sierra Summit is the closest resort to SLO so what can you do.
Well, I gave it another shot yesterday because there was two feet of fresh snow from the storm on Thursday. Ben and Andrea invited me for a day trip and it ended up being a blast. I was able to ride through powder for the first time this season and it was sweet! The new Burton Malolo board I bought at the beginning of the season is working out great. It floats and cuts through the powder with little effort required.
Sierra Summit can be good and worth the trip….if there is fresh snow.
February 18, 2007 on 5:05 pm | In ball python, feeding, rat, snake | No Comments
Eric’s ball python slurping down a rat. Watching this never seems to get old. Mmm, mmm, good.
February 18, 2007 on 5:02 pm | In Cinder, cat, water | 1 Comment
Our cat Cinder is very much like a plant because we water her almost daily.
February 18, 2007 on 3:24 pm | In taxes | No Comments
Almost a month in the making and I have finally completed my taxes. I started a few weeks ago and have been waiting for all the tax forms to come in. This was my first year preparing my own tax return and I must say it’s more intimidating than it really is. TurboTax made it so easy to do…the only hard part is figuring out what to do with the refund.
February 3, 2007 on 10:23 pm | In movie review | No Comments
Meghan and I watched Pan’s Labyrinth a few days ago at the Palm theater in SLO and I was impressed. All I had to go by before seeing it was a recommendation from a friend and a disturbing photo of a monster who’s eye balls were in it’s hands on the front page of the New Times. The movie takes place in Spain during their civil war about 60 years ago so it is in Spanish with subtitles. The subtitles were easy to follow and didn’t distract from the movie. On a whole the film is well done and extremely entertaining. An interesting fact is that some of the special effects were done by a local SLO company called Cafe FX. I won’t give any plot away but I will say that you should see it.
January 21, 2007 on 2:52 pm | In baby, plane | 1 Comment
The flight from Jackson, Wy to Denver was late but luckily our connecting flight was delayed so no problem. Our bags however did not make the flight so we had to wait at LAX for the next flight from Denver to arrive. Mike and I ended up making the drive back to SLO arriving at about 1am…what a long day.
On the flight from Denver to LAX I had my first experience sitting next to a fully energized two year old. My initial feeling was pure fear when the mother apologized to me as I sat down. I think this is every flyer’s worst nightmare because it means that you have a 0.01% chance of reading/sleeping/relaxing until you exit the plane because two year olds have a seemingly endless amount of energy. But, it actually turned out to be a cool experience. I just happened to be reading a chapter in the book “Freakonomics” about what makes a good parent (no, the book is not about parenting it just happened to be the topic of a chapter). That chapter led to an interesting conversation with the mom about parenting and I learned a quite a bit from her experiences. I have never considered myself to be good with kids but playing with her son was surprisingly fun. Maybe kids are alright after all?
Most importantly I reassured myself that making the best of a situation is loads better than being angry and cynical about it.
January 18, 2007 on 9:54 pm | In jackson wyoming, snowboarding, urbandictionary.com | No Comments
Me representing urbandictionary.com at about 9,300 ft in Jackson Hole. The hike was long but worth the effort to get the killer view. There was a small amount of new snow yesterday but nothing substantial. We fought the icyness to get 17,000 vertical feet in…not too bad. Mike, Jackson, and I are pretty sore so we’ll probably take tomorrow off to check out the town.
January 16, 2007 on 4:30 pm | In headwall, jackson wyoming, snowboarding | 2 Comments
Today was another beautiful day. A brisk -12 degrees F when we ventured outside to get breakfast. Had the “Cowboy Bennedict” which used Elk bacon at the Silver Dollar Grill. The grill got it’s name because there is 2032 silver dollars in the bar.
We started the day with one warmup run before hiking to the top of headwall in search of powder. The hike was long. Jackson lost his board on the hike but luckily it only fell about 30 yard or so before hitting a tree and narrowly missing me by about 3 feet. The above photo is from the top of headwall at 9,300 feet above sea level.
We explored the other side of mountain which is mostly expert terran and that wore us out. It may snow tomorrow or Thursday so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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