Sunflower Iron Event

I signed up for the Sunflower Iron Event on May 2nd in Wintrop.
Abour 22mi total to race - a mix of hiking trails, roads, and everything in between. Check out elevation graph on right. I think I am mostly worried about that last section of downhill.
Looking forward to hanging out in Wintrop a bit, before and after race - it should be a fun place. Click on Post Title for link to Sunflower website.

Z

Sega Team Ride 2/1/09

Sweet Sega Team Ride in Black Diamond on Super Bowl Sunday. Sun peeked out after a morning chill. Awesome to see everyone out there!!

On the right are GEarth pics of Peter's "Medium" Group Ride. About 8.2miles, 1.5hr ride time by my calculations. Click on Title for motionbased.com ride detail.

I'll try to have some video up later. :P

Cheers,

-Zach

Red Hot Hydroponic Chili Peppers

The Hydroponic Chili Peppers are starting to grow, at least 6 of the 7 Pods. Another month or so, and we'll be ready for some hot cooking!

There are three types here: Jalapeno, Red Fire, and "Super Hot" Chili Pepper Plants. The Super Hots seem to take the longest to grow....

Z

10 million CMs

On the right is pic of 100K 'fun run' from Easton to Carnation, WA.
Almost all on Rail Trail, and net downhill. I've run the middle section of this course before and biked the beginning and end sections. Should be a piece of cake! June 20th 2009 - I'll need to set my alarm really early. :P

Z
P.S. Only part I am a little worried about is running the 2-3 miles through Hyak Tunnel - dark, wet, potholes, orcs, etc.

Quote of the Day

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
— Philip K. Dick

Now this made me think: if I believe it, then it does go away, at least metaphorically :)

ZMac

More snow and shoeing

Here are a couple pics (from the G1 Android) from South Fork of Snoqualmie at the Bridge near Riverbend (12/25) and My better half up at Rattlesnake Lake/Ridge (12/28). Now the snow is all a yucky/slushy mush. :(

Z

Icebiker

Yesterday I "icebiked" around Riverbend neighboorhood. Included was a ride ontop of riverbend pond. Worst case, I think the water is only like 4 feet deep. See video here. :)

Wikipedia even has a icebiking entry, funny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebiking


Click on title link for motionbased workout details - a woping 4.6 miles in a hour! Actually they have new map player working now which is pretty cool. It auto-detects pauses in workout.

No slippage as long as I was on compact snow/ice. Once I was on side roads or trail in the thick snow I slidding all over. Good for heart rate though - I was up to 164 bpm.

I needed to get out of house anyway. We had pipe burst yesterday and spent hours and hours wiping up water damage. See what ice did to our copper pipe (pic on right). All good now though, especially thanks to Handy Man!

Z