Words, Music, & Outdoor Adventures

http://www.exploresteamboat.com/news/2006/jul/06/mixing_it_locals_favorite_tunes/

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/10182/

Since the fern can’t go to the sink for a drink, I graciously
submit myself to the task, returning with two glasses of water.
****And so we sit, the fern and I, sipping water together. …

****Of course I’m more complex than a fern, full of deep
thoughts as I am. But I lay this aside for the easy company of
an afternoon friendship.
****Yet, had I my druthers, I’d be speeding through the sky for
Stockholm, sipping bloody marys with wedges of lime. …

****And so we sit one lonely afternoon sipping water together.
The fern looking out of its fronds, as I look out of mine. …

….
So even though I am unhappy
I throw back my old goat throat
and sing slowly
“Oh my darlin’ Clementine”
by the beautiful lake in Minnesota
as the pressure of the black night cold
moves in on us from all ten directions
I sing to the moon above the lake
“You are lost and gone forever”
calling the pure beast of loneliness down from the sky
with the old American song haunting city lights
“Dreadful sorry Clementine”
and though the very earth has swelled up
like an elephant with pain
I stand on its back singing
in this sad universe
where one lover leaves another for all time
and nothing to say with your feet on the ground

“‘I’ll write this all down for you, I said. ‘I’ll put it in a story.’ I don’t know if that what he wanted to ask me, but it’s something everyone wants - for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

“all sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them”

Swim 1.5K
Bike 42k
Run 10K
I felt really good during the entire event; which is new. The key: eating a big breakfast and as much as I can during the bike. From the Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_4865896,00.html

This afternoon I mountain biked with Jeff up Elk Park (VERY hard) and through Bear Creek and down Hot Springs Rd back to his house. It was only 7 miles but it was hard. It was fun going fast down the traverses on Bear Creek trail and fell hard on a steep, dry, curve. Same elbow and hip as last time. It’s gonna hurt tomorrow. I definitely like the downhill more than the uphill. Only 10 days until the xterra off road tri.

I just watched this movie. It is*so powerful and*really makes you think.*It proves the point that*innocent people die*on death row. Great Movie! 5 Stars.

Overall Rank 306 of 2304
Class Rank 11 of 446
Swim 00:18:48
Bike 00:40:34
Run 00:29:39
Final 01:34:56

He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. In his Nobel lecture he said, “All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.”

Saturday I ran the 9.5 mile trail run at Spring Creek. It was very hard. Time : 1.42.49.

The grueling 9.5-mile loop sends runners up 1,300 vertical feet in a 2.5-mile section, goes through dense forests to the top of Buffalo Pass, and turns them around at the Dry Lake campground at 8,300 feet for a downhill return on the popular multi-use Spring Creek Trail.

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http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/sports/story/37986