...and now for something completely different!

This was the scene where Collin and I went mountain biking on Sunday. There were trees uprooted, and down all over the place! I have not seen such destruction in the forest on a bike trail in the 7 years I've been mountain biking!! (And that's even including 2005; the year that Calgary basically got flooded out!)

This is a picture of one section of the trail (called "Telehpone Trail") This was defintitely the worst section of damage, the trees were toppled over each other like a beaver dam! I had to carry my bike and try to balance along the logs to get to the other side of the trail! Sketchy!!!

Normally this ride would take me 1 hr and 30minutes to complete, tops! Yesterday, with all the log jumping it took us 3 hours!!! ...to complete the 15km loop! I was pretty dissapointed because it's normally such a fun trail! Yesterday I was cursing everything from my bike to the fallen trees, because it was just NO FUN getting off my bike every 2 minutes to jump another log[s]!!!

I will check trail conditions before going out on another ride this season! Something is just not right with the mountain biking Gods or something because my mountain bike rides just aren't making me very happy this season!

My week, in review.

I am a bit sore today. We (a couple girl friends and I) went mountain biking on Sunday... it was a 13km loop... my legs were tired after that. Then Monday night I taught my Strong class (weights) so my legs were getting really sore! And today I decided to run on the treadmill for 35 minutes... but then followed that up with 15 minutes of stretching my sore muscles. Stretching felt good, and I do feel better now then I did this morning!

Yesterday was also my work Stampede event. We got to go to the rodeo! It was a blast! I did have to leave the grounds early (to teach my class) but I had a great time with my collegues in the grand stands! (I have a few pics to post, but still need to DL them to my computer!)
One poor bull rider was launched in the air by the bull he was riding! It was just like in the cartoons! I couldn't believe it! The cowboy managed to walk away from the incident, but I'm sure he's a hurting unit today! Poor guy!

I'm leaving to Leduc tomorrow for a few days of RnR with my family. Ahhhh...

Blogging is losing to Facebook!

Stupid Faceboook is getting way too much of my attention these days. I need to stop using it so much... I mean, really, things don't change that much on that thing anyways. I wonder why I feel the need to check it every hour!?!

Collin and I went mountain biking in the NW of Calgary this Sunday... I forgot how many Creek crossings there were on this one trail... and due to the massive amounts of rain we've been getting and the run off from the mountains the creek was flowing with FULL FORCE! We made about 15 creek crossings and hit many mud puddles! Collin enjoyed this trail, but there were quite a few people out on the trail walking (with their dogs and kids) which made the ride a little intermitent (stop, start, stop, start!) And with the amount of stopping and starting we were already doing to avoid the creek, it was a very slow ride. I think next, I'll bring Collin to Nose Hill Park or maybe COP. Something with NO WATER HAZARDS please! lol

Blogging is taking a back seat...

... to FACEBOOK! Why is Facebook so interesting to me??? (I'm sure I'm not the only addict to Facebook out there!)
I have actually been posting notes on my Facebook profile, which I kind of consider mini blog entries. (Hence my lack of entries on my actual Blog.) Sawwy... I'll try to pick up my socks and blog here from now on!

... and now for the actual entry.... :)


Collin and I have been making some effort to get out on our bikes lately. We went out twice last week, both were 15km rides. Collin was a bit sketched out on our first ride, but he was much more comfortable on his bike on our second ride. We did two different trails: Bowness Park and Fish Creek Park. I don't think I'll bring Collin back to Fish Creek again any time soon because they havent fixed any of the bridges that were washed out in the floods of 2005 yet! (Man, they have had 2 years, what's the hold up???) It was very frustrating riding there because the river travels right through most of the trails. (There used to be 11 bridges, now there is 3! Gong show!) Oh well, this is the beauty of living in Calgary, we don't live too far from great mountain biking just on the outskirts of the city. I love that! Maybe I'll take Collin to Bragg Creek this weekend... I'll have to see if he's up to that yet. (I keep forgetting, he's still a newbie!!!)

My body is starting to feel the burn... especially my quads.
Ahhhh... workout burn is back! haha
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