Ken Brumbauge Race

Joel, Cory and Adam after the Ken Brumbaugh Race

The sun is shining there's a chill in the air its a perfect day for a race, not to hot that you dehydrate but not too cold that your lungs burn while you're running. We met at Brian's house to go up to the Park where the race was starting. We got there in time to warm up a little bit and then to the start line we went. The butterflies were flying around in the stomach but when the gun went off it was all business,' the nerves go away and the pain sets in. The first couple hundred yards I tried to get into a rhythm and get around some of the people up front. I noticed that there was about ten of us in the first group I thought if I could stay there I'd be in good shape. Through the turn around there was AJ Kelly way out in front one guy behind him and then three of us in a group we were working together pretty good. I felt pretty good until mile 3.5 and I kind of tightened up and the two that I was with gapped me. I fought back but didn't have anything left at the end. Oh well I'm happy with 5th overall and 1st in my age group. Adam got 1st in his age group.

Wellness Update - not well

I have been in pain for a few weeks. Crashed while mountain biking about 3 weeks ago or so, wellmaybe it was a month ago. I decided to go to that new Med Express place on the Blvd today because the pain was much worse than it had been. It was super nice. The people were great. I got taken in right away, had some X-rays, had them read and was out of there in 1 hour. That was Express, as compared to the hospital. (no offense to people that work at the hospital). Turns out that I cracked a few ribs. They are not broken and separated, just cracked. Dr said it will take 6-8 weeks to heal. He said no contact sports but he does recommend running or cycling. That will keep the lungs expanding fully and they won't collapse during my 6-8 week healing time. I guess you end up favoring your ribs and you lean to that side and it can affect your lungs becasue they don't get to expand fully. The dr offered some strong meds but I declined and said I'll keep doing Motrin. So that's the scoop. I decided not to workout today. I am hurting too much.

I will be at the race tomorrow though to see J-man, Adam and others participate. Good Luck to all runners tomorrow.

Pics from our ride the other day

Spring has Sprung

The 1st day of Spring was yesterday so the crazies decided to go out and do some mt. biking. Brian and Myself dressed like it was still cold out, Adam came in summer attire we kind of made fun of him but he was the one with the last laugh. We went to Glendale and did some of the trails there it was sooo beautiful around the lake and the weather turned out to be perfect, B and I had the sweat rolling of course Adam did too and he was dressed approiately. Can really tell its spring we had to do alot of trail maintenance along the way, lots of trees and limbs across the trails. I ended up with a stick in my rear derailler and screwed up my shifting so we kind of had to cut the ride a little short. We were having so much fun and enjoying the ride we really didn't get any pictures or video. We got a picture at the end when we got back to the car but we were not very good guides, we'll try better next time. Hope you are enjoying our Blog!

What do you think of the new look?

The Porcupine Sighting

Got a call from Bill Blyler (Big time mt. biker) on Friday and ask me to go to blue Knob mt. biking with him and his buddy Bugsey and his dog. We went on the resort side which is really rocky, and still had snow in some spots. We went out for about 3 hrs and did some trail maintenance along the way, a lot of fallen trees and limbs on the trails. Winter seems like its been going on forever so the warm temps and sunshine yesterday made for a perfect day. We were getting close to the end of the ride and we stopped for a minute and Bill looked up in a tree and said whats that in the tree so we walked a little closer and saw it was a porcupine just hanging out enjoying the sun. I really enjoyed myself and got some good bike handling skills on the rocks and a good cardio workout with trying to keep up with Bill and Bugsey. I didn't get any video cause I was just hangin on for dear life but I did get a picture of the porcupine in the tree. When I came home I wanted to get a run in so Adam and I did about 6 miles just for fun. Haha

What a difference a day makes!

Yesterday was so beautiful and as Brian already posted the run was great, today was a different story. We decided to do a little road ride this afternoon, it was chilly! We left from Brians house in Altoona and rode to Bellwood and back it wasn't bad but compared to yesterday I was glad to be done. I've really had enough of the cold and snow, I know its not over but I'll just have to endure till it is.
Just get out and enjoy!!

Saturday afternoon jaunt

J-man, Adam and I went for a little run on Saturday afternoon around 3:00pm. Nothing crazy about this one other than the weather was crazy nice. It was 60 degrees and sunny. It was great. We did 6.5 miles on a new course for us. That was fun.

Blue Knob here we come!

The Outdoor Crazies decided to go to Blue Knob mt. biking, we thought the snow would be gone, well there was still alot on some of the trails but that didn't deter us. We had a newbie with us, Cory, (my nephew) decided he want to enjoy the fresh air and get a little exercise with us. I think he really enjoyed himself becuase he was praying along side the trail thanking the lord for the beautiful scenery or maybe he just was trying to keep from puking! anyhow you can decide when you watch the video. Hope you enjoy!! maybe I'll get into more details later.