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2012 February Challenge fURf.

fURf - Face your Fuckiness.

Get a job. Change your job. Keep your job. Quit your job. Replace 'job' with any meaningful word, like um fuckiness. Just face it. I gotta face I suck at expressing myself in words. (Skirtsteak, I read all those articles you sent, and I prefer the word Opt Out over quit)...

This monthly challenge done right will be hard. Very hard. Yet, you'll know if you are doing it properly, fully, if at the end of the day you feel you ain't alone. It's not impossible.

Share your experiences. Share your insights. Or stay separate. YOUR CHOICE.

On the horizon? March's challenge will be March in March. So polish up your running shoes...

BRS points will now equal swig points. Next BRS get together will mean leader in BRS pts = swig from the others...

Lastly, all names on blog can be changed by another via a blog entry. I'm officially changing Chugg, theGuth to Dyn-O-Mite.

Challenge Update

One consecutive month logged.

Crash and I rode Whidbey last weekend. We were feeling sluggish. It hailed on us. Then it rained. My right shifter broke (off) and I was stuck in a single cog for the remainder of the ride. Crash cramped up and couldn't climb anymore.

We had a fantastic time, have missed cycling with y'all and can't wait to get back out next week.

Challenge

Trail Running. With Gerald. Or more accurately trail walking (me, not Gerald). On Whidbey Island. Deception Pass State Park. That was the single most significant event for me over the past 1.5 years. Thanks Gerald...

What did I learn? Life is a contact sport. So I will extend my learning...

Guth. You remind me of a basketball player dying to scrimmage during practice. Screw conditioning drills. Screw weights. Screw fundamentals. Let's play. Okay, I agree (to a certain extent).

I'm putting out a challenge to see how many consecutive months one can bike Whidbey Island. So for 2012, looks like we've got 9 more days to get one on the books this month. Next weekend ferry departs Mukilteo at 7am...

DC 2011 in Photos

Nice recap SPC Davis!

Here are some pics of the DryFly in Spokane, suppliers of this year's top prize (the GALLON Young's Flask)


Wish I'd taken more photos to capture the spirit of the USAF edition of the DC.
I don't know why I have so many pictures of the crab dish



I do know why I have so many pictures of Jay's wardrobe changes. Go Cameroon!



It was nice chillin under the xmas lights, ventoux bagels with special butter, cheeseless lasagna, and roasted chicken with beer!


And running in Oregon Coast weather


See you all next year.

DC IV and 2011 NMN

I believe Vincent Van Gogh was unappreciated during his lifetime too...

DC IV recount! Sorry Guth, but it appears you are the actual winner of the 2011 DC IV. I did learn something about myself though. I can do kindergarten addition more precisely without whiskey than with whiskey...

Final Results & Awards are linked here. Also, NMN playlists are linked to the blog, so get your votes in if you want to win a Kamiak tennis sweatshirt (gently used).

Riding in the Dark

Overhead streetlights at regular intervals cast my favorite shadows. I've always loved this about riding in the dark. If you see me doing sprint intervals on my be-panniered commuter bike at 5am, I'm just getting excited about my shadow jumping out ahead of me, then sliding by the side,

then jumping out ahead,

then sliding by the side,

then jumping out ahead...

Watching this with Guth last night and the urge to post it here was almost instinctual, for obvious reasons. I found myself longing for a 6AM wake-up call, a pre-breakfast hair of the dog beer and a crap-ass performance on a door frame pull-up bar. And it was the best kind of longing, like a high school crush on the new Brazilian exchange student.