Done

Well I did it just under 5 hours (4:58). The others..
Bryon 3:47
bill 2:54
charlie 3:55
shiela 5:28
matt 4:22
sara 5:59

More pictures to come...

Me at OO (1/2 way)

It's 5 am and all is well... So far

Pr-race meal

Office S P A C E !

I moved into my new office at work today but I forgot to get a picture. I now have my own office with a window! It is amazing how much crap one accumulates in 15 months (since my last move). I shredded/recycled 7 boxes of files and still need to go through 2 that I didn't get through by the time the movers came. I'll post some pics monday.

Oh yeah I have that ski race thing on Saturday.

I picked up my skis from The Shop today after their tune up. Mike really did 'em up and says the WIL BE FAST!

So after a doggie care delema (Charlie) and Cold Weather Fashion Crisis (Tami) I think we are all set to head to cheese town and do a ski race.

I will keep you posted!

Suffer Ski Saturday

Even though I felt like crap I got a decent 2 1/2 hour ski in yesterday morning. It was a nice day and it really helped to loosen up my sinuses. Watch out for the snot spots and lung cookies on the orchard loop! I felt really slow and drained so I took it really easy. I hope I can ditch this bug before next weekend or it's going to be miserable.

SICK

My throught is raw and nose is plugged. I guess the Ice beard wasn't such a good idea. I am going to try to rest a couple days and try to ski 3 hours Saturday. The new snow should be nice!

10 days and counting

The birkie is in 10 days and I went to Quarry park and got in 21k tonight. It started snowing and I got a good snow beard.
You should have seen the big snot-sickle I cleaned off before I took this picture!

1, 5, 18, 37, 800

After our big snow storm came through on Monday night I went to Quarry Park on Tuesday evening to ski on the fresh 1" of snow. Wow after the first storm the begining of December I thought this was going to be a great winter for snow, boy was I wrong. I got in 5 laps, about 18 k in an hour and a half. Only one other skier out, two joggers on the ski trail and three deer. I think I scared the deer less that the skier and the joggers jumped as I flew by them down a hill as I grumbled about them running on the trail.

My Birthday with Beer and Pizza last night. Yeah Yeah Yeah Happy Birthday to me. Not a big deal anymore, 37 down. My kids were way more excited than I was.

St aug's Fish fry tomorrow night so I went and helped rinse, squeeze and wrap about 800 lbs of fish fillets to be breaded and fried. An hour of that was enough so I took my fishy self home for a quick spin during the end of the Wild game.

Work is alot of... Work.

Well all week I was in Minneapolis for our annual Knife River Workshop. The last few years it has been in Portland or Sacremento, what a time to come to Minnesota.

I spun on the trainer for 1 1/2 hours last night and managed a new 1 hour best of 331 watts. I was just going to do 2 X 20 minutes at this output but really felt good after tacking the week off and suffered through it.

I went for a ski this morning at the Prison loops with the Amo's for a while and then by myself for the last 1 1/2 of my 2 1/2 hours. What had been groomed recently is in decent shape but that is only about 1/2 of the trails. I felt good skiing after the week off although I was dead tired after I was done.

Tami and I are splitting a Pizza Padre shift at St. Aug's church tomorrow so if you want a few pizzas for the Superbowl tomorrow stop on over between 9 and noon.