Emily and Joe

Our dear friend Emily, got married this last weekend.  She was so beautiful and they were so happy.  We love you Emily and wish you and Joe all the best in life.

Seattle Trip Fall 2011

This is another late post, but I wanted to get these pictures on the blog and just remember what a great time we had. 

Brad and I took a much needed trip to Seattle.  We spent a week there and it was wonderful to relax and just enjoy ourselves.  We stayed with my Mom and ate and ate and, oh yeah, we ate again.  We had our fill of Fish and Chips, but that is why we love Seattle.  

St George Fall 100 mile road race...(posted about 5 months late) Better late then never...

Okay, it's been some time since I did the Tour of Zion in St George Utah last September. But Lolly is good about keeping me to task about blogging about my events and she wanted David to have some thing new to see on our Blog.

This event was at the end of September and a few weeks earlier I had just completed the PCP2P race and this event was to enjoy a good road ride through some beautiful country, and it did not disappoint.

This race started out in Washington and turned east and headed towards Sand hollow and then up into Hurricane and up into Zion, and then we headed out through Toquerville and out to the I-15 and then back around into Washington...it's a 100+ and a great day on the bike.

Okay, I wanted to get a good ride in so I tried to stay with the lead group as long as I could which was going pretty well until we crested up that large hill coming out of Hurricane...I always wondered what it would be like to climb that hill and now I know...at any pace it would be a pretty tough climb...problem was I was trying to say with the lead group of 7 guys, I made it over the top with them but man It took to my max effort for 10 minutes plus way early in the event.

After that I shut it down a bit as we rode into Zion and rode with two other riders who were riding at strong pace but a bit more manageable. After leaving Zion where there was a aid station we headed down out of Zion at a brisk pace and headed out through Toquerville and out towards the I-15...may I say this might have been the toughest part of the event...we were now 60 miles plus into it and now I remember why you don't want to go real hard at the first part of a long event...this is not my first 100 mile event but I am a slow learner...I always want to see if I can push myself a bit harder and a bit longer than before and the only way to find out what the threshold is, is to push hard until your body says no more.

Anyways, I made it out to the I-15 to another aid station and got a few bars and filled up my bottles and head down the frontage road towards St George and it was a long rolling 15 miles or so...I got a second wind some where out there and came into Washington feeling pretty good...I think some where in the 4:33 time...maybe 15th or so...I really enjoy these 100 mile road events, and will do more this year 2012. I do like the events that have a bit of climbing in them and have some country in them that I would enjoy sitting on the seat of my bike...both of which The Tour of Zion had in spades.

It would be fun to do one some day with my wife...Hint, Hint!