Sedona run

I had a nice (hard) run yesterday here in Sedona. I went up Schnebly Hill Road about 4.4 miles. Lots of climbing and lots of rocky hilly rutted roads. It has snowed pretty had today keeping me off of the roads, I wait to see what tomorrow brings.

I ordered an iPad 3 with FREE custom engraving.

When people come over or I am at the coffee shop it will go something like this:

“That’s my iPad 3″
“Which one”
“The one that has Bad Mother Fucker engraved on it.”

 

Nice shirt bro

Billy Mills is coming to town

If you are in the Scottsdale area, check out Olympic Champion Billy Mills as he gives a presentation at Scottsdale Community College.  Click the link below for the event flyer…

 

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‘Billy Mills@SCC 3.27

 

 

 

 

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Hipster (the picture site) likes me!

I got an email today telling me that the picture I posted to Hipster from my run at Dreamy Draw/Squaw Peak was added to their  ”popular list”.  What a blessed day!!!

Here is the site.  HIPSTER 

And the pic…

Run to Squaw Peak’s North face, UFO crash site, and more!

Today I was lucky enough to be able to pop out of work early and head up the 51 freeway to run at Dreamy Draw.  Today I wanted to try something new so I set my sights on going up the North face of Squaw Peak (Piestewa Peak).  I saw from the trail map that it was rated difficult to hard so I figured that I was in for a nice challenge.  As I was on the trail and keeping my eyes open for the trail markers as not to get lost it became pretty clear to me why trail 1A used markers with a horseshoe on them while the rest were the regular City of Phoenix logo.  It was tough going at times, parts were totally not runable due to being so steep uphill, and mildly dangerous coming down the other side.  According to Strava the average grade was 12.5%.

Back to those trail markers.  Somehow on the way down I missed a turn or something as I ended up on trail 200 or 230 and entered the parking lot from the East instead of the West.  At least I made it there.  I will look at the GPS map and see where I missed the trail.  So…here are some photos I snapped along the way.    I am not sure why they are being shown so small, click a picture for larger images.

 

And here is some video from just below the high point of the North Face.

 

I almost forgot, here is where the UFO crashed and is buried!

Well, if you believe the story it crashed there and the dam was constructed to cover up the wreck.  Click here to see more about it.

Time to go to the Alps

I have now made it a goal to go to the Alps, (Italian or Swiss, it doesn’t matter-no French) in the next 5 years.  I will start pinching my pennies now and maybe put a little less in the kids college fnds.  Here is a cool time lapse of the Alps at night.

 

Glow in the dark running shoes

Thanks Asics, I don’t know what I would do without your making these.

Back online

My internet connection had been very spotty for the past 2 days and when I got up this morning and it was still cutting in and out, I was very unhappy to say the least.  I did everything that I knew had worked in the past (unplug modem and/or router, clear history and cache, etc) with no success.

I called Cox automated system which told me that everything was working just fine, so I asked to talk to a tech.  After spending 20 minutes on the phone with me the nice, but script stricken tech told me that I either had a virus (I have all MAcs which I know can get a virus but it is very doubtful) or my modem needed to be replaced.  Earlier in the call she told me several times that my modem was working well with no packet loss, skips, or time outs.

I ended the call and became more and more frustrated, when I then noticed that my router was no longer showing as “available”. I went in and cleared everything out of my router with a hard reset, and set it back up.  Same for my modem.  Now not only am I back online, my signal is stronger than before and data seems to be quicker.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that it holds up even though I was looking at getting a new Apple Airport Extreme.

 

On the running front I got in 10 miles with my dog yesterday.  I was spent when we were done and it was much slower than I planned on.  I guess that I forgot how hard the desert trails can be with dry washes and river beds, gradual climbs, and sand and dirt that you sinks good 2-3 inches into.  I am still planning on doing a trail 30K and trail 1/2 marathon in March with the Whiskey Row full trail marathon in May.

Here is a little Frank to get your Presidents day off to a good start.

Jay Z’s 99 problems set to movies