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2009 Ride #50

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So should I count this as a 2009 ride, or should I consider it a jumpstart on the 2010 rides? Drove to Phoenix yesterday (Saturday) for the holidays, and of course had to bring a bike to help keep me sane … the fact [...]

A quick summary to get caught up

Wow, have I been lax on posting anything original lately. As often happens, life has taken a few unexpected turns and I just haven’t really gotten around to it.

For the past several months, I was dating a really incredible woman. Unfortunately, it was a long-distance relationship and the 800 miles of separation became too [...]

2009 Rides #45/46

Yesterday’s shitty ride #45:

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Today’s much better ride #46:

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Yesterday, my heart rate spiked from the get-go … 126 before I even started turning the cranks, and from the moment I started pedaling, [...]

Four Corners … whoops?

I just hope they got the rest of the state right … I’d hate to find out that I really live in Wyoming; or worse … like Idaho.

Deseret News | Four Corners marker 21/2 miles off? Too late

The Four Corners, a famous and popular tourist spot in the American Southwest, is and isn’t [...]

McDowell Mountain Regional Park

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McDowell Mountain Regional Park, originally uploaded by flahute.

McDowell Mountain Regional Park, originally uploaded by flahute.

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I am IronFan

Congratulations to Marit Fischer for finishing IronMan Arizona in a total time of 12:41:25, in 33rd of 105 in her age group, after battling Achilles tendonitis for the past few weeks. Awesome!

Splits below:

SWIM BIKE RUN OVERALL RANK DIV.POS. 1:26:29 6:12:18 4:48:16 12:41:25 1123 of 2189 33 of 105

Source: http://ironman.com/events/ironman/arizona?show=tracker&year=2009

I am now officially a propagandist!

From KeatingEconomics.com:

The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late ’80s and early ’90s.

John McCain was accused of improperly aiding [...]

Race #1 is in the bag …

… and we learned a few things.

Cyclocross is becoming more and more popular in Utah. Despite the nasty weather today, we had our biggest ever field, with about 280 riders. We need to allow a little more time between races to allow for better warm-ups. We need to be nicer Rules Nazis, and not [...]

Joyousness!

Sitting at the airport … again … waiting for a delayed flight … again … and all I want to do is go home and go to sleep in my own bed. Is that too much ask for?

Sigh.

And I get to do it again in a couple of weeks to go to Columbus, [...]

Arid-Zona

In Arid-Zona for the weekend visiting my mom and stepdad … since I won’t be able to visit for Christmas, this is an off weekend for the UTCX series, and there’s no snow to speak of in the canyons (and since I had a free ticket), I decided to fly down.

So, we’re doing a [...]