Gearing Up

For some reason back in May I had a funny urge to go to some website called www.lotojaclassic.com and register. Knowing full well that I'd, of course, never get in via the lottery as a category 4 racer in America's longest single-day road race, I was signed up within minutes of going to the website. The reality sank in while sitting at a friend's house idly checking my email on my phone and low and behold an email from Lotoja Classic came in telling me I was in. So here I am just a bit more than a month away from the race and I'm just trying to squeeze in as many miles in the saddle as I can.

Luckily, a friend from high school said that he and some other friends were going on a good solid ride on Saturday wondering if I wanted to come. Having been only 1 week away from lounging on a sailboat for 10 days, I gladly said YES! (was I thinking?) At the end of the ride I ended up with the following...

Stats:
Distance: 138 km (85 mi)
Vertical feet gained: 1,813 m (5948 ft)
# of riders: 6

Map:
Elevation Profile:

Belizean Adventure

To find out why I've been MIA, check out Gina Bina's blog

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Tour of Park City Route added!

See my bike routes post by clicking the link or look over to the left at the top of the column to access it. Each link on that page will take you to an interactive map of the route.

The Tour of Park City route is linked under the "Summit County" section on that page.

Mmm, Big Mountain

First time up Big Mountain (in Emigration Canyon) for the year. This has to be one of the best rides in the SLC area.

View from the top (sorry for the crappy iPhone pic, I need a new Point and Shoot camera):

Elevation profile:

Map:

Getting excited about the ToU this August

Referring to that last post...

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B-Cycle

Another company has finally gotten together what looks to be the right amount of money to do what I've wanted to do for quite some time. This one looks like one of the best implementations of this style system outside of some of the ones deployed in Europe. Very well-done B-cycle! Now let's just get it to come to SLC, ask for it here: http://bcycle.com/who_wants_it_more/

Portfolio Pics - Part 5

Hawaiian Sunset

As always, comments welcome!

**Update** I almost forgot to post the EXIF data. Some people have asked for it.
ISO: 200
Exposure time: 1/160 sec
Aperture: f/18
Focal length: 24mm
Exposure Program: Aperture Priority

Portfolio Pics - Part 4

Another one... comments/critique welcome!

This was another one from film so I don't remember the camera settings. Lens was probably 50mm f/1.8 at about f/11 and about 15 sec exposure.

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Healthiest US City? Salt Lake City

Couldn't help but pass this one along. Salt Lake City deserves a big pat on the back for being nominated and chosen as the U.S.'s healthiest city! Ahh, such pride :-)

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