TRI FOR REAL

Registered for my next triathlon. Its going to be on September, 21 at Shadow Cliffs. This one is going to be competitive with placings and medals and all that crap, which means I'll probably get kicked in the face way more times during the swim. This one is 700 meters swimming, 20 miles biking, and 4 miles running. Its just that much bigger than the last one to scare me into training more than I probably need to, but what the hell. I can't wait to be placed and see how bad or great I did.

Not Cool!

On Friday on my way into work I was riding down 8th Street to my car when a old POS van went tearing across 8th from one of the side streets to beat the traffic and obviously didn't see me. I was riding pretty fast because to lights on 8th are timed and didn't have much time to react. The driver saw me at the last second and stopped right in front of me, probably thinking that was the right thing, causing me to vear towards a car and the curb with no chance of turning back towards the street. I was going down hard. lucky for me I have 10+ years of skateboarding behind me and if theres one thing I have learned it's how to fall and cause the least amount of damage. Just before I hit the curb I jumped off my bike over the handle bars and did a flip and twist, as did my bike, landing on my back looking at the van, I yelled some nasty comment as the driver mashed away not even waiting for me to hit the ground. What the hell is wrong with people? A man helped me up also cursing at the driver and I was suprised to find that I only cut up my elbow, a big srcap on my hip, and a pulled growing. My Bob wasn't as lucky as my front fork is bent back quite a bit and although ridable, will have to be fixed and wont be cheap. I rode to work in pain and bummed out but I'm better now. If the person in the old orange molester van should read this, you suck and I would love to give you a beat down.

A380

The new Airbus was at SFO yesterday to see which gates it could fit on. Its a big plane, but I think the 747 is a better and more streamline looking plane. The A380 looks short and fat next to the 747.

SLC

I flew to Salt Lake on Sunday to visit with grandma, Charles, Shannon, mom, and Kevin. I was hoping to go out to eat when I got there but they already went to lunch. Instead I had a bunch of string cheese and a beer. It was great to see everyone for 5 hours and then fly back. The visit was worth flying back and forth in one day.