Both girls have been really wanting major haircuts! So our friend Char had us over for a haircut party in her new salon. The girls got the royal treatment: shampoo bowl, elevated chair and big mirror. Liv went first and had about 7 inches taken off. Kati had 6 inches or so cut off. Char used the hairdryer and styled their hair beautifully. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to make it look that pretty again but after showers the other night I gave it a quick dry and flip with the brush. We've been quite successful with the styling and the girls love the feel of their new do's on the back of their neck. Too cute!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Commute Ride Report
Great ride yesterday after work. This time I chose a different route home from Seattle to Duvall - avoiding all the pitfalls that befell me the last time. On Monday I rode north through the city, grabbing the western terminus of the Burke-Gilman Trail and riding all the way to 124th in between Woodinville and Redmond. From there I had a steep climb up and over 124th to Avondale, another climb over Old Woodinville Duvall Road and finally the last pitch up the hill in downtown Duvall - Stevenson. All in all its 38.15 miles, took 2:34 and I burned 2350 kCal according to the heart rate monitor. The weather was perfect and I took some additional precautions after my last debacle:
1) I made sure to EAT something substantial for lunch - last time I had a little salad, this time I had a couple sandwiches, a cup of soup and big chocolate chip cookie.
2) I didn't wear my backpack. I usually ride home with all my clothes stuffed in my Ortlieb Velocity backpack. The pack is small enough to not be a hassle and big enough to carry laptop when necessary. AND its waterproof - something pretty keen for the crap-sandwich Seattle weather.
3) I packed extra water - last time I ran out before the last climb up Big Rock Road.
4) I used my heart rate monitor as a governor, keeping my heart rate under 150 while I was on the trail made sure I had enough left in the tank for the three big climbs at the end of the road.
Once I got home I celebrated with home made pie (Audra made an Apple-Rhubarb and a Strawberry-Rhubarb pie for fathers day) and a bottle of Redhook Sun Rye (ok so maybe two bottles - but hey I was replacing valuable fluids!)
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1) I made sure to EAT something substantial for lunch - last time I had a little salad, this time I had a couple sandwiches, a cup of soup and big chocolate chip cookie.
2) I didn't wear my backpack. I usually ride home with all my clothes stuffed in my Ortlieb Velocity backpack. The pack is small enough to not be a hassle and big enough to carry laptop when necessary. AND its waterproof - something pretty keen for the crap-sandwich Seattle weather.
3) I packed extra water - last time I ran out before the last climb up Big Rock Road.
4) I used my heart rate monitor as a governor, keeping my heart rate under 150 while I was on the trail made sure I had enough left in the tank for the three big climbs at the end of the road.
Once I got home I celebrated with home made pie (Audra made an Apple-Rhubarb and a Strawberry-Rhubarb pie for fathers day) and a bottle of Redhook Sun Rye (ok so maybe two bottles - but hey I was replacing valuable fluids!)
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Friday, June 13, 2008
My ride to Olivia's game in Snoqualmie:
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Ended up being about 23 miles and roughly 860 feet of elevation gain. With all the rain the ferns and trees along the trail are verdant green. It's like riding through a green tunnel in several places. Absolutely amazing. On the way up to Snoqualmie falls the trail goes over 2 spans that are breathtaking. The trail must be 300 feet above the valley floor and the views down the gorge are astounding.
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Ended up being about 23 miles and roughly 860 feet of elevation gain. With all the rain the ferns and trees along the trail are verdant green. It's like riding through a green tunnel in several places. Absolutely amazing. On the way up to Snoqualmie falls the trail goes over 2 spans that are breathtaking. The trail must be 300 feet above the valley floor and the views down the gorge are astounding.
Switch Hitting!
Olivia picked up the bat last week for practice and started hitting balls left handed. She didn't even realize she was doing anything different, she just happened to take a left handed stance at first. Audra reminded her of it last night, and coach Kevin overheard so he offered to pitch 3 balls to her left handed. If she didn't get a hit, she would have to switch back - Liv took the first ball and slapped it down the 3rd base line!
Monday, June 09, 2008
Lake Margaret Ride
If you like to earn your descent you would love this area! The three trails mentiond below: YGD is You're Going Down and SnT is Sick and Twisted and Funner is, well, Funner. YGD is a technical descent with some fast parts, some wicked drops and a couple exposed switch backs to keep you honest. SnT is just plain stupid fast twisting single track. When its dry you can really fly. Funner is a brand new technical descent we just got through helping my buddy Bob build, its fun now but its going to be amazing once it packs in!
There are several creeks that pour out of or around lake Margaret. With all the rain these things have been huge! And that sucks if you end up on the wrong side of them.
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Randy and I rode from the house out the pipline trial to 322nd, down the hill to Kelly Road and then took the right on to 151st. Things were going well until I decided to take a right and climb instead of a left and descend at the T. So we climbed and climbed, descended for a quick bit and then got back to climbing until we hit a clear cut and realized we were on the wrong ridge. No matter, we just shot back down and headed across the little bridge and up that road to the trail that cuts through, or I guess used to cut through, the two big rocks and made our way back to the middle road. The trip between the rocks has been re-routed.
We then climbed up the road that borders Funner and got on the wrong side of the creek up at the blow out. I knew it would still be high, but I wanted to see the new trail Bob cut in around the wash out and I really figured we could just hop across.... Right. It was doable, but we had to improvise a bit. We pulled some of the downed logs from the road and laid them across the rocks, I imagine they'll be gone by the next rain, but it allowed us the one step we needed to get to the other side. We were running out of time now, our little diversion to the clear cut took about 40 minutes, so we just headed up to YGD and out SnT.
Mileage- about 16
Ride Time - 2hr 40min
Calories - 2100
Two other notables for those of you that have ridden out here:
1- we met up with the guy that guides horse trips as we were making our way back to the middle road, he was coming off the trail on to the road there by the two big rocks you used to be able to ride between. We were stopped anyway, orienting, but man did he give me the hairy eyeball, even turned around in his saddle to keep eyeballin me as they rode down around the corner there. I just waived politely, smiled, and wished them a good ride.
2- when we were making our way across the creek we could see fresh debris in the trees ABOVE our heads, too much rain I guess.
There are several creeks that pour out of or around lake Margaret. With all the rain these things have been huge! And that sucks if you end up on the wrong side of them.
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Randy and I rode from the house out the pipline trial to 322nd, down the hill to Kelly Road and then took the right on to 151st. Things were going well until I decided to take a right and climb instead of a left and descend at the T. So we climbed and climbed, descended for a quick bit and then got back to climbing until we hit a clear cut and realized we were on the wrong ridge. No matter, we just shot back down and headed across the little bridge and up that road to the trail that cuts through, or I guess used to cut through, the two big rocks and made our way back to the middle road. The trip between the rocks has been re-routed.
We then climbed up the road that borders Funner and got on the wrong side of the creek up at the blow out. I knew it would still be high, but I wanted to see the new trail Bob cut in around the wash out and I really figured we could just hop across.... Right. It was doable, but we had to improvise a bit. We pulled some of the downed logs from the road and laid them across the rocks, I imagine they'll be gone by the next rain, but it allowed us the one step we needed to get to the other side. We were running out of time now, our little diversion to the clear cut took about 40 minutes, so we just headed up to YGD and out SnT.
Mileage- about 16
Ride Time - 2hr 40min
Calories - 2100
Two other notables for those of you that have ridden out here:
1- we met up with the guy that guides horse trips as we were making our way back to the middle road, he was coming off the trail on to the road there by the two big rocks you used to be able to ride between. We were stopped anyway, orienting, but man did he give me the hairy eyeball, even turned around in his saddle to keep eyeballin me as they rode down around the corner there. I just waived politely, smiled, and wished them a good ride.
2- when we were making our way across the creek we could see fresh debris in the trees ABOVE our heads, too much rain I guess.
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