BACK TO WORK

I enjoyed a fathers day @ mom and dads with the kids.  We grilled and ate a ton.  Didn't get home until late then laur and I watched some stupid show with Zellwigger and Conick Jr.  It was 1:00 AM before we got to bed, but I told Mark and Zach I would lift with them, so laur and I went out @ 7 AM.  They were just getting back from Ragnar, so they were tired.  The lift was okay, but I had told Carson I would go mtn. biking with him today, so we left a little early.  Carson and I left from the church and head out through b-hills.  We road on the trails out to the Spring Valley single track.  We road up the Bearclaw and the lookout and then back down.  We decided to check out the Southern Parkway, so we got on @ exit#1 and rode est to the new road and back home. 

Carson is a great kid.  He told me he was going to go over to PV this year, because he had a few more friends there.  He did talk about doing XC and wrestling this year.  Too bad he didn't stay at D-hills, but you do what you do.

No run today.  Left early with the girls to girls camp.  I drove the laurels up to Manti canyon.  They were great, except they didn't like '80s rock or Frank Sinatra.  I couldn't stand their teeny-bopper stuff so we settled on Faith Hill and Sugarland.

We stopped at Cove Fort on the way.  What a cool little fort.  I want to stop by there again when we go on the fam vacation.

We took in the Manti pageant that night.  It would have been great if a grouup of teenagers from riverton wouldn't have talked through the whole thing.  At the end I asked them where they were from and then told them that I had never met a more rude and disrespectful group.  They had nothing to say.  I am usually pretty flexible, but that was out of bounds.

We took a hike through manti canyon today.  It was a tough hike for some of the girls.  they went +/- 5, but the young womens pres left a banner at our half way point and didn't realize it until we were down the trail.  i ran back and got it.  I might have been a tad over 6, but more or less.

I was gearing up for the big ride at this point.  Kelly and bishop switched me out at the camp and I caught a ride with Mike, Randy, and Randy's dad, Marvin to lehi for the big ride.  We stayed at Mike's cousins place about 2 miles southeast of Cabelas. 

AM got to cabelas @ 8 AM.  My goal was to ride my road bike from Lehi to Mount Carmel Jct. by saturday afternoon.  I knew that mike and randy had to leave me by friday afternoon to get back to there families, so we were going to cover as much ground as we could.  There were 3 friends of mikes that were going to ride with us to Goshen, so we had a nice peleton going west of Utah lake averaging about 22 mph.  It was an awesome ride, but grasshoppers galore.

We broke off with rob, tony, and john in goshen and headed up the canyon.  I pulled outi n head, because I climb a little better than the other two.  They caught me at Mona and then we ate lunch with a great family in Nephi.  The wife is going to be coaching Juab's XC team this year, so I laid down the gauntlet ;) 

Marvin sagged for us the whole trip so we through our bikes into the truck and got up to the Nephi canyon summit.  We then whipped down through Moroni and Fountain Green with a close run in with the huge tractor hauling a bailer.  We passed him in town and he was pissed and tried to run us off the road about five miles out of town. 

When we got just to Manti a huge head wind come up, so we loaded our bikes and took some pics by the temple and headed for Richfield.

We stayed at Randy's in-laws last night.  Come to find out I played b-ball in high school with their son.  He played for PV and his name is Rhet Rollins.  They are a great family and wonderful hospitality. 

We dropped our bikes @ Joseph and went down through the canyon.  We got some great pics of big rock cndy mountain.  It was raining on us pretty good and the river was running on it's banks.  I ran over a piece of steeel @ horseshoe bend and skewered my tire.  Luckily Mike had an extra, so we changed it and sailed through marysvale and into Junction.  We stopped for a quick pack of M&Ms @ the store and then on to Circleville.  The climb out of Circleville canyon was tough with the rain and Mike had a blow out before the Bear valley jct., but we cahnged it and headed in to Panguitch. 

We got a big burger @ circle M in panguitch and Mike and Randy loaded up and went home.  Gene and Clayton come to get my gear and I pedaled to Hatch.  About 2 miles before getting to Hatch, my right shifter seized up, so I was left with only three gears to limp the rest of the way. 

I got there at aobut 4PM and waited for Laurie to get there.  I was so tired that after I saw her for a few hours I just went right to bed.  (around 8:30) 

7AM Laurie and I had planned on going up to Red canyon and finishing our big ride into Mount Carmel Jct., but with my shifter broken it was not going to happen.  We did the Hatch loop which gave us 3 easy miles.  i ran with her because my quads were sooooo tired.  I had taken the rolling pin to them last night and I thought it helped a little but not enough. 

I knew I need to spin a little to get the soreness out of my quads, so we jumped on the bikes and spun down through the white fence subdivision and back.  It helped a little but a day of rest tomorrow will do me good.

ANYONE THAT MIGHT BE READING THIS AND MAY KNOW HOW TO DIFFERENIATE BETWEEN CYCLING MILEAGE AND RUNNING MILEAGE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.  I DON'T WANT TO COMBINE THE TWO IN MY HISTORY, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.