red mtn/goldmyer/snow lake loop from snoqualmie

great run today. pretty colors and good company. justin angle, john stamstad (both patagonia athletes) and myself started at snoqualmie pass and did an awesome 18.5 mile loop with around 6,700 feet of gain. so sweet.




just too many good photos to put in the blog - see the rest here

northwest trail run and chuckanut

congrats to jill purcell!!!! i am jill's coach and i so proud of her recent endurance accomplishment - she completed her first 50 mile mtn bike race! wow she's come a long way in a short period of time (she just this year started to mtn bike!). great job jill, keep pushing your limits!

saturday i played volunteer and helped out local adventure racing team mergeo.com at their trail race. the series of runs is called the northwest trail runs. i love the idea, small, shorter trail races on local trails for people to get out and enjoy our local trail systems. national orienteering champion eric bone put on a great grass roots event, either a 5 or 10 mile course in soaring eagle park in sammamish, wa. i helped out and got to run about 8 miles while i marked the course. these are the same guys who put on the beast adventure race series, and the ron herzog 50k ultra (nov 11). got a total of 13 trail miles for the day.

sunday with the parkers!! got out with ellen her brother kurt for a 13.6 mile trail run up at chuckanut. great run great company... and with the light drizzle keeping the gapers away we had the trails all to ourselves. kurt had just solo climbed the south twin sister the day before, so he was suffering on the climbs.. and at chuckanut it's all climb! got a total of 18 trail miles on the day.


the parkers love to run!


kurt parker (one day after climbing the south twin sister) - this dude will smoke a pack of reds and still kick your ass


me and kurt.. lovin' it (the rain stopped)


the diva pose


run it!


kurt is fast

2006 24hr Solo Mtn Bike World Championship Photos

first off i have to thank matthew noell for his amazing support.. he was the only one in my pit, so he did everything; kept the bikes in race shape, fed me, cleaned me, helped me change cloths, kept track of what i was consuming, what place i was in and how fast i was going. the guy is amazing support but an even better friend. there was one point were i was starting to get down on myself, thinking i just wasn't riding well enough. the next time through the pit matthew happened to give me a pep talk. he told me how well i was riding, how consistant i was and how much of a bad ass he thought i was. i didn't tell him this but the next few laps i was filled with the confidence he had just given me... priceless.
thank you matthew!


my hammer pills. with just matthew as support i had to setup ready made tubes of pills for ease of consumption. my main three - race caps, mito-r and anti-fatigue


as we line up for the lemans start they introduce each solo racer one at a time - this is australian craig gordon (cannondale) the eventual winner - hopefully he's out of the hospital by now!


chris eatough (trek/volkswagen) - 2nd place


rebecca rusch (specialized) - 2nd place female


me


the line up before the run.. i hate the run!


go!