what's gray?

a melted penguin.

flamenco dancing, and beerfest

halberd-shaped power station
nettle rash
bush forest leaf gold
knot-jointed rice grass
gulleting file bascule escapement

so i should have known it was going to bad from the start.

i was going to meet my new friends kristi and roni at krisi's place downtown at 6, i figure 20 minutes is plenty of time to get from my place to there....wrong! huuge traffic badness at 9th and 9th where they've closed the intersection and all kinds of madness.  so i get there like 15 ( Read more... )

1:09:41, avg 13.3, max 37.5, 15.59 miles

vertical feet ascended: 1310

i can tell i'm getting stronger, since this climb was a lot easier this time around...still kinda slow cause i didn't want to leave my friend on his mountain bike in the dust, even though i did occasionally.

going back down we took turns pulling, which was fun, and kind of funny, ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ioKEDgnfs8&mode=related&search=

damn.

1:35:09, 14.2 avg, 42 max, 22.61 miles

must have hit every single stop light on highland ave going south

made it up the stupid hill on fort union blvd without stopping, required pushing until i was literally screaming in pain

then proceeded up little cottonwood canyon until legs gave out, stopped at dogwood picnic area,  went up a little further after ( Read more... )

21.44 miles, 1:32:01, 13.9 average, 38.0 max

some of that was spent walking at 3 miles an hour along the side of the highway trying not to die.

also just about bonked on this one hill.

woulda been longer but i somehow ended up back in sugarhouse before i knew what was going on. got lost in a subdivision in the suburbs, went into like three cul de ( Read more... )

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oh god, you can buy it used..... gross.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bottle_rocket_attack