Don't forget to submit your time sheet.

It's Friday 2:19pm the winds still out of the south but the rain looks like it's stopped for now.

The wind should switch around tonight and temp should drop into the 30's making tommorrow mid day ride in the upper 50's with 15-20mph winds(no fun).

The only problem with taking a week off to go snowboarding is when you get back you have no idea what you should be training. I don't know if all that snowboarding was rest or stress on the body and muscles. I got on the bike yesterday and took a ten minute jaunt down the rode to see if my speed and LT was still in check. It felt decent but not as powerful as before I left.
I came back home because it was getting dark, and finished up on the trainer managing to pull in 3 - 10 minute intervals for a 1 hour and 20 minutes session (man I need a watts meter) that would get rid of a lot of confusion.

This time next week I'll be on my way to Terlingua.

Back to work

First day and I take off my glove to eat some beef jerky on the way up in the chair lift, and I drop my left glove. Just so happens to have fallen on a Double
Black diamond. My friend Terry, says forget about it, and that it will be buried in snow before I get there. Being the frugal person I am I can't let the glove go. So I get to the top and ask the chair lift operator. "does anyone ever take that run". He just says "yeah but you better be good" well I'm not that good, but I take off down the Holly Cow it was great no one had ridden it yet since the previous days snow, I made long wide S-turns all the way down. Here is the pic from the top looking down.

One more pic from the top looking up.

I managed to accomplish what I set out to do this year (catch air and go as fast as I want) Alyssa, took this picture on the last day. It's kind of neat because you can see the puff of snow where I lifted off from. On some downhill runs your carving through the tree's at 40mph and hitting the straight's even faster, nothing compares to effortless speed, provided by the simplicity of a board just strapped to your feet. Just don't pull a Sonny Bono into a tree. I did run into one tree when I took a run through a tree's section where the average distance between the trees was about 3 feet. I ended up sliding out when there was a bump in a corner that made it impossible to turn.

Alyssa was flying down the mountain this year, (video) she took some big spills on some steep down hills. I had a big crash myself, I was doing about 30mph fully leaning into a toe edge carve around some tree's when my toe caught the snow, this sent me tumbling. I could hear my back and neck making popping sounds, and the lady I had just past, skies up beside me and asks if she needed to call anyone for me. Believe it or not after the initial shock, this actually loosened me up. I took it easier on my way down, till I re centered my bindings.

Some scenery pic's from our room and the top of one of the peaks. 1 2 3 4

I'LL CONTINUE THIS POST LATER.