Mountain Bike Oregon this weekend was Awesome. MBO is a mountain bike event held 2x’s a year in Oakridge, OR… about 40 miles down the road from Eugene.

I guided Friday and Saturday. Got home last night about 9pm to put the kids to bed. I pedaled somewhere in the neighbor of 70 miles these last 2 days and I’m guess I did about 3000 feet of climbing.  I got to guide Alpine – Tire Mountain – Cloverpatch on Friday (33 miles). Hopped an afternoon shuttle to drop Larrison Rock… a very short but very fast and fun downhill (4 miles). For Saturday’s ride I was assigned to guide the Middle Fork Willamette trail (30 miles). Middle Fork is usually 25miles but I was assigned the fast or hammer group which does some extra mileage and climbing on the upper section to give the other groups a good head start.

All in all, a very fun weekend. Here are some pics I took along the way. Sorry for the poor quality on the pics, they were taken with my LG Touch.

A husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart.
The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart.
‘What do you think you’re doing?’ asks the wife.
‘They’re on sale, only $10 for 24 cans he replies.
‘Put them back, we can’t afford them demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket.
‘What do you think you’re doing?’ asks the husband.
‘It’s my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,’ replies the wife.
Her husband retorts: ‘So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it’s half the price.’

Two of the worlds greatest… Go Bears!

What does the term “Shop Local” mean to you? For many, I believe all it mostly means is supporting the local stores where you live.  For others.. my self included,  shopping local also means buying American. And for some it’s probably viewed as some silly vegan hippy tree hugger movement. Read more…

A few weeks ago I went out for an hour long run and did about 6.5 miles. Afterwards my knees were pretty sore especially the left one.  I went about my week riding and do CrossFit WODs.  Then a few days of rest but still just sore knees.  On my next workout we did a fair bit of running and I haven’t been the same since.

Spent Friday and Saturday limping around with periods of icing, wrapping and elevating my left knee.  Yesterday and today the soreness is quite a bit less and I’m not limping anymore really. I have more mobility than I did since I tweaked it. Read more…

Was surfing YouTube the other day for a couple of minutes and stumbled upon this. Glad to see U of O students working hard at their studies… and their dance moves!

Too funny…

We’ve always been in to gardening but this year we have become urban farmers.

This winter and spring we’ve been busy working in the yard pretty much every weekend / any chance we get when it’s not raining. Carrie got our existing garden bed prepped and planted a few months ago and we’re about to pick our first fruits… swiss chard, lettuce and broccoli. Read more…

Being vegan; the practice of eating no meat or any animals product like milk.  A more accurate definition from Wikipedia is stated as…

Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.

So in my opinion being vegan is all an animal rights thing. So can someone please tell me why vegans have come up with so many processed foods that look, taste and are even named something cutesy in relation to the real meat product? Seriously Tofurkey… molded tofu or other soy product to resemble turkey. This is just one instance. Fake bacon, fake sausage, the list goes on.

So with this in mind, what’s the purpose of being vegan if you are going to desire products that mimic the real thing? Is it because you crave it? There’s a reason behind that…because humans are meat eaters by nature.

What kinda pisses me off about the whole vegan food industry is the amount of processing all this “packaged food” goes through.  To me it defeats the purpose of trying to be an environmentalist animal lover.

The best one I’ve heard is a vegan bacon and cheese quiche… ok.. would love to see how that one comes out because its 95% animal products. LOL

Sorry, was feeling a little cynical today. Personally I don’t care what you eat, just don’t impress your eating habits on me.

As part of the Twitter Tools plugin you can put your bit.ly api key in so it’ll shorten the urls of the my blog posts in Twitter. But for some reason the urls aren’t shortening so I reset my API key and hopefully this works.

This is only a test.