What is new you didn't ask? Well let me tell you.

The above photo was shamelessly stolen from Leslie's blog. I'm running the Diablo 50 next weekend, which I'm really excited about. The picture is one of Leslie's from last year. Leslie is running again, and Keith is running is first (I think) marathon there. On hard hilly hot trails no less. He's brave! I'm really excited because I'm visiting and staying with the O'Connor family, who are good people. If I finish this race without thinking I might die, I will be cautiously optimistic about my training. If it's a disaster and there are no other obvious reasons for it I will put the pedal to the metal with my training. It's sort of a test race of sorts. And it will be a VERY good training run. Above all, I will get to see a lot of my favorite people, which can't be beat.

In other news, I hiked up the mountain today and skiied down. My quads are on fire. When you're a newbie skiier and rely heavily on your quads to snowplow your turns and snowplow you down, you feel a new world a hurt if you've hiked up. Ouch. I didn't take pictures because I was so wiped the entire time that it wasn't really a stop and smell the roses type endeavor. Just to give you an idea -- usually when I run my heart rate is 125-135. My heart rate averaged around 140 for a good 2.5 hours until the ski down -- which was a lot easier than last week thanks to the slight slush thing going on -- and the perfectly groomed-ish slope that no one else had been on. (The cool kids ski down Toni Matt whereas the newbs still ski Russ' Street).

Good weekend. Yesterday the Crossfit gym moved to a conveniently closer location. I helped move. With 40 people moving it goes fast. We got 'er largely done in just a few hours. Give me coffee and I'll come help with virtually anything!!!