Lance is the man

Lance Armstrong ran the NYC marathon in 2006 and after crossing the finish line said he would NEVER do that again. Despite his team of world class pacers, he still did not enjoy himself. He did however beat his goal of 3 hours (2:59:36) which is just nuts for your first marathon. Well he ran is again on Sunday and finished in 2:46:42, which was barely 40 minutes slower than the overall winner. A lot of people don't know that Lance was a triathlon prodigy when he was a teen, so he had some running in his background. However at 2:46 he is doing 26.2 miles in 6 minutes 20 seconds per mile! That is truly amazing for a non professional racer. I really can't think of anybody else more inspiring, overcoming cancer, 7 consecutive Tour De France victories with out doping, and now he is dating an Olsen twin! What a stud!

Busy Monday!

Lots of posts for you today. I have one about Project 1/1/100, one about the CSU vs. BYU football game, and this one which contains my first attempt at a stop motion video. Stop motion videos are created by taking a bunch of photos of a subject and making small changes in each photo. Then you play them and it makes it look like the subject is moving. Gumby and the California Raisins are prime examples of stop motion animation. Anyway, here you will find Quicksilver breakdancing...and keep in mind I have never tried this before and I didn't even do trial and error on this project, this is literally my very first attempt at this. So the Quicksilver action figure was part of the cake that Karen made me for my Birthday (he was supposed to be superdad, how cool is that!). So here he is dancing......


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CSU vs. BYU game

So at least CSU beat the spread! BYU was favored to win by 21 points and the final score was CSU 16, BYU 35. 19 points, HA take that BYU! We had a great time, our seats were awesome. We were about 5 rows up and right in the corner of the end zone. We had a good time going with our friends Ryan (CSU grad 2002) and Jason and his wife Beata, they are from the East coast but Jason loves Mountain West Football from watching all of the Thursday night games that the conference used to play before they signed on to their own network (Don't get me started). We were nearly the only people tail gaiting in the parking lot, and I'd pretty much promise we were the only ones drinking beer! When we got to our seats we were the only people in Green while the rest of the Stadium was Blue and White. Anyway, here are some pictures from the game.

Project 1/1/100 update

So I am still right on track to lose my 100th pound by Jan. 1st, 2008! I have really been working hard and staying focused, and the results are still showing up on the scale. So I am a mere 20 pounds above my goal, with 8 weeks left to go. I need to maintain about 2.5 pounds per week to hit that mark. Since my marathon I have lost 25 pounds which is hard to believe at times (especially on a Monday after my day off!). On Sunday I weighed less than I did when I graduated college! I constantly worry about hitting a plateau and failing to meet my goal, but at the same time I feel like I keep increasing the intensity of my workouts and maintaining proper caloric intake....hopefully that plateau thing won't happen.

Check out this workout on Saturday. For starters I got up at 5:30 AM to do this, and was one of those sickos who were waiting for the Rec Center to open it's doors at 6:30 AM (I got there at 6:25). So I swam a 1500 straight, no stops, all flip turns in 28 minutes. Then I rode 20 miles on the stationary bike, 59:30. Then I ran 3 miles in 28 minutes, 9:15 per mile. I was originally shooting for 6 miles, but I was pretty beat so I decided on 4. But then I ran into time constraints cause Bridget and I had to drive to Provo, UT for the CSU vs. BYU game. Regardless it was a GREAT workout, and I am happy with my triathlon progress.

Halloween aftermath

Here are some quick pics of the pumpkins. I carved the Frankenstein too early so he was really wilty. You can make out the bat pumpkin that Sydney helped me carve. And the ghost pumpkin was carved on Halloween day, so he was pretty fresh. We also had them lit up with our cool new pumpkin lights in them that change colors from red to blue to green. Pretty cool! I also put a few pictures of our ghost milk cartons. They were inspired from a magazine, and turned out pretty cool. They got a lot of comments.