Archive for February, 2008

160 BPM

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Sounds like decent Zone 3 or Zone 4 training for me, only instead that is the little one’s resting heartrate. Not much bigger than my thumb right now, but already Troy and I got to hear his or her heartbeat yesterday at the midwife’s office. Mostly my loud, slow, pounding heartbeat overshadowed […]

Riding Hawes

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Troy and I were in Phoenix last weekend to help out a friend with an R&D project. We spent all day riding our bikes around a running track, pacing runners and testing various distance- and pace-measuring units. It was pretty interesting, but imagine riding your bike at 6 mph around a track for […]

Skiing, Spinning, and Mtn Biking

Friday, February 15th, 2008

I’m in one of those awesome phases where every time I go teleskiing I get a little bit better. I remember going through phases like this with mountain biking, especially back in 1999 or 2000 when I was riding South Mtn all the time. All of a sudden I found myself cleaning new […]

Avy Level Uno

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

tRoy and I headed up to Moab last Friday to take a Level 1 Avalanche Safety class. Troy had taken the same class 3 years ago from Max, instructor extraordinaire, but I had just been learning from Troy and other skiing friends along the way. A refresher for Troy, solid info for me, […]