Nice stop there.

Out in Beulah! Nature rocks. Heres a picture of Brandee.

Boulder Marathon

2 posts in 1 day?!

After running the Denver marathon (10/19/08) I bought some brooks. Got fitted by runner's roost and all that. Didn't do any long runs in those shoes until a month after the marathon, and realized they made my knees hurt whenever I did a run more than 3 miles. Bah! So those shoes are a no go now.

For my Birthday my mom has offered to buy me new running shoes and registration into the 2009 boulder marathon!

My old shoes that I ran the Denver marathon in are pretty totalled. They were pearl izumi peak, I thought they were great shoes. More of a trail running shoe though. I made it though the Denver marathon in them though so that's gotta say something about them!

My mom bought me some pearl izumi streak shoes which are supposed to be like the cousin of the peaks I had. The peaks are just more for road running which is what I'm doing. So I'm pretty excited they should be here any day now!

The Boulder Marathon Bouldermarathon.com is September 20, 2009. I've started using Hal higdon's plan for the marathon, I'd like to do the Denver marathon as well which is almost a month after the Boulder marathon and he talks about doing marathons within a month from each other so hopefully it can work.

Anyone else here doing either of these marathons?

Tony's 40 mile ride

Well Monday. Took the new steamroller out for a longer ride then usual. Rode it from home out past the target warehouse rode. I must say I was going faster than I thought. Using the mile markers and my watch I was averaging about a 3:15 a mile. Not bad.

Overall the ride was a good one. I haven't done too many long rides my last ride was a couple months ago and it was a thirty mile ride. Same route just shorter. The last 5 miles were tearing up my butt though. Had to get off the bike and stretch for a bit. But i'm sure that goes away after doing more rides and my butt gets used to the pounding (of the bike).

Today (tuesday) i'm not sore at all which i'm surprised about that. I'm doing something right I think.

I bought a cateye mirco computer for my bike so I can see some more info on my rides. I'm pretty excited I've been without a computer on my bike for about six months. Hopefully my averages have improved!

Messed up hands. Either from lifting or riding.. Maybe both.

Saddle

I'm looking for a new saddle for my steamroller, I'm not too fond of the one that comes stock. Just riding around for a couple days and i can already tell that. 

I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive one.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Steamroller

Just got my new surly creamroller. Damn that thing is sexy.

First impressions is that the steam angle is a bit higher than i'm used to but it feels nice when riding. Super smooth compared to my kilo tt. Wish i would have gotten this bike first but then again if i got this first then the kilo tt as a mess around bike i'd be disappointed in the kilo.

I need to take off the reflectors for the wheels but other than it's good. Maybe a new saddle but that's in the future.

So far the steamroller seems perfect for me.