Its been awhile

I didn’t realize it has been almost a week since I last posted. Man, time flies when you are having fun I guess.

I finally got a chance to go on a bike ride this weekend, I do miss riding but I forgot about how much harder than running it is. Saturday morning I got up and rode the Colorado trail up from my house, the same trail I spent most of the summer running while training for the marathon. Its 1000 Ft of elevation in about 3 Miles, so not terrible but still a good challenge, on foot anyway. At the end of my training I could run the whole way up non-stop in about 35 minutes. On my bike I had to stop at least 3 times, and probably took me just as long, if not longer! I did ride all the way from my house which adds another few hundred feet and about 4 miles of road riding before the trailhead, but man, I expected to ride way better than that. Suffer fest!

Saturday night I pulled together a poker game with a few friends, and when I lost (well 3rd place but only 1st and 2nd got any money) I gathered my strength for a good 2.5 hour drunken Halo fest with Mike and Donovan (earlier casualties of the poker game.) Ahh good times!

Sunday I got up with some motivation to really explore my back yard. I brought my camera along so I could share with you (aren’t you excited?!).

It is so nice to walk for 2 minutes and not be able to see or hear another person, or building, or car... I love it.

Look at the pretty leaves:


Seems just a bit out of place doesn’t it?


Ahh, Durango, what a great little place:


Oh, this was supposed to be the obligatory Monday Leg Blogging!


As soon as I got home from hiking/running around the mountain, my friend Jared called with intentions to go for a bike ride. I was tired and sore from yesterday so I obviously said "Lets go!" Then I proceeded to absolutely get my ass kicked by him up the mountain. I hate getting beaten… but I kept up on the way down so it was all good.

Yesterday, Mike and I decided to go play a round of tennis after work (it is turning into a fairly regular thing now-adays.) I am really surprised at how easily the game came back to me, given I had not picked up my racket since… oh... about 1995. Mike was supposed to go out with his wife for some dinner but she called an went out with one of her friends instead, so we had to take advantage of the situation and play some more Halo! While we are setting up I call my friend Kevin who plays online with us to get home to join. "Uhh, you'll have to check with management" he says and hands the phone to his wife. "Justin, you need to get a girlfriend so you quit taking my guy away." Ouch!! I finally convince her to let him play and we have a grand ol time getting whooped by 10 year olds with some incredibly foul language, and deeply rooted psychological issues...

At around 9 we called it quits and I headed to meet Jared for what is becoming a regular Monday night ritual, Pint night. Hey, apparently I need a girlfriend and that seems as good a place as any! I wont bore you with my the details... well because there weren’t any, it was pretty laid back Monday. I did talk to 2 ladies but it turned out neither good, nor bad enough to write about here. I got home fairly early for Monday and went to bed... then to work... which leads us to now, and I have nothing more to say...

Except that there is an AWESOME thunderstorm raging outside... (please turn to snow, please, please , please!)