Cascajun

I spent a few hours after work with the boys mountain biking on Galbraith.

I’m getting in shape for the Bellingham Traverse. I’ll be participating on a tandem team; my portions of the race are the road run (5.5 miles), mountain bike (6 miles), and trail run (3 miles). My teammate’s portions of the race are the road bike (18 miles) and open water paddle (4 miles). We have a .5 mile Team Trek to the finish line at Boundary Bay Brewery. It’s a really fun race, but I’ve never done more than one leg of the six leg relay.

Today I did a one way solo run from my office to downtown Bellingham. After lunch I biked back to the office.

A went on a short mountain bike ride with Doug; up the ridge trail and back down SST.

I got out for a run and mountain bike ride on a beautiful spring day in Bellingham.

A run over Sehome Hill; over South Hill via Taylor; and down the South Bay Trail.

A mountain bike loop through town, including some of my favorite trials on Galbraith.

A closer look at my attempt to clear the snow covered log on a trail called Mullet.

That’s pure fun!

I’ve been going on some snow rides with my buddies the past few weekends. We’ve had some video camera’s along and captured some footage. Here is my first attempt at editing a short video with iMovie on my MacBook.

This also happens to be the first thing I’ve uploaded to YouTube. Obviously I’m a novice, as I can’t seem to set a still for my nice new video. Fortunately YouTube has set a default image, making that patently obvious to everyone. Nevertheless, I can now check off two more of those “must do before you die” pop-culture geek things!

Update: I see the still image I selected for the video is there now…nice.

I went for a nice, long run around Bellingham’s south side followed by a fairly strenuous mountain bike ride on Galbraith Mountain.

I wasn’t on fire like yesterday, but it was a great ride anyway.