DANG

BUSY BUSY BUSY I sure end up doing a lot of "good will" work. I seem to have gotten myself in kinda deep in try to grow and develop the Vitamin Cottage women's and cat 3/4 teams. I just hope it all pays off next spring and they end up being very noticable imrpovements over years past.

The other big work item I've overdone this week is the Santa Barbara Training Camps 2006. Yes that's right plural...camp-S. Well actually we'll be staying in Montecito (bling bling). I'll be opening them up to my clients next week as I finally get many of them going with training for next year. I have break down and say it, I've been slacking at that. I guess part of it is I still haven't figured out a way for people to pay me without either paper checks or outrageous fees.

I've been killing it on the fitball with the "mature" women in Balance and Strength class. Doubling up with a ride afterwards usually prety much wipes me out for the day, luckily I only attempt it twice a week. I'm gonna try and race twice this weekend. Maybe if I'm a bit tired from actually working out during the week I won't puke like I did last Sunday.

Ketchup

Sorry for the lack of posts. Last week was pretty busy. I didn't get on bike once between my first cross race and the second. That made yeaterdays race pretty hard. Boulder Racing's bad-ass race yesterday once again proved why they are the the current kings of cross promotion in the state. It was all grass and it was HARD. They made the most of what they had to work with in a small area.

In other news Beth and I did join a gym. Flatirons Athletic Club is our new spot. Last week we did some swimming and few exercise classes in the early morning when it was way to cold to ride. I found that my inability to keep a beat also let me off the back in these classes. Instructor and class would be making one movement and I was usually doing the opposite. Oh well, we're trying some more classes this week.

Veloswap was Saturday and I had a ball working the Vitamin Cottage booth. It was a prime opportunity to meet with some people from our club and help them to get the ball rolling for next year. Look for much improved squads of Women and Cat 3's and 4's from VC next year.

We also got to hand out a bunch of products that VC carries. Good stuff from a good company. The hot topic on everyone's mind was the new store going in @ 15th and Platte. This is right by the big REI in downtown and is sure to be a big hit with everyone in that area.

Maybe I'll update a bit more this week.

I went bike racing

After one ride on the new rig I decided to race. Turns out my fitness wasn't as bad as I had previously thought. It went ok and I managed not to get lapped. The promoter went out of their way to ensure the course had a mud bog. I ran it every lap so my bike looked like this, but my legs....

,,,my legs looked like this. It was kind of like having dry crusty boogers all over my legs.

lame

bethie blogging our EXCITING thursday night activities. nothing like blogging a blogger blogging.

Tomorrow

this arrives...

But right now I've got go to a lecture on bike fit at teh Boulder Center for Sports Medicine

I'm SLOW

Tried riding my bike again today. Not so pretty, this is the worst I have felt since getting knocked out by mono several years ago. I look ok but I've got nothing when pushing on the pedals. It's kinda scary to be this out of shape. Rode with Roscoe and ended up running into the long lost Kurt Rees. Roscoe did a good job at going slow with me, Kurt didn't. Kurt didn't help anything bay saying he hadn't been on a bike in 3 months.

Slowly slipping in more wedding pics, here's my mom and my sister getting down on the dance floor. That gene was apparently not passed on to me, only Sara.



Here's my Dad doing the unthinkable, ENJOYING A SOCIAL FUNCTION!!!


Hey wait a minute, where's Chris????

Straight shooting again

Finally able to focus clearly on work and life in general. It's good to be back.

Here's a picture of me having fun at the wedding with Beth's father and brother. If you look carefully her dad he is actually smiling, rare, very rare. Maybe they really do like me!

I would be skeptical of a guy if I were in his shoes, I mean just look at that beautiful young lady dancing with her father...

Yeah... I almost cried when I saw the two of them dancing. Memorable times.

Getting back on track

Finally, life is slowly returning to normal. I road my bike yesterday for the second time in the past 3 weeks. The other day was the wedding day. I felt great that day. Yesterday was not so good. I was pretty beat after 90 minutes of EASY spinning. I got my cross bike ordered so I should have some extra motivation to get back into the swing of some sort of training after this current storm lets up.

We still don't know what's going on with VC for next year and it's driving me crazy. I hope to get a better idea of the situation tomorrow.

hope to be posting a bit more often now.

I thought I was ready...

I wasn't. Once Beth's mom arrived everything went crazy. even the honeymoon was a blur. Make sure to check out Beth's Crazy Days. She kept up with her blgo through the chaos. Now that all is said and done it was an EPIC experience and we both agree we will not be doing it again.

Look for more pictures soon.