New Year is HERE

The first week of the new year is now past and with that the first Monday is come. All the New Year's resolutions are probably starting tomorrow- because why start mid-week, right? I have never been a big NY-resolutioner. If you are going to do something why not just do it because you should, not because walls all over the world are sporting new calendars. Enough said about that.

I saw a good movie over the weekend. 'The Wrestler' starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei. Its one of those movies that you would never choose to watch without some serious selling from someone who has seen it, but its good. The storyline is pretty obvious from the title, its about professional wrestling. Mickey Rourke on his way down from a promising career as a B-class pro wrestler and Marisa Tomei (who would have thought) is a stripper in a club that Rourke frequents. Check it out when you can.

After a few days of easy swimming my body was ready for some serious punishment in the form of the Mt Evans hill climb. This is no ordinary Colorado mountain. It is a 27 mile Goliath with an average gradient of about 6%. The last four miles is a series of relentless switchbacks at over 14,000 ft elevation where each time around you are begging and pleading with the mountain gods to make the pain stop and the end come. The goal was to establish my current AeT (aerobic threshold) to base my next block of training on. I felt really good and rested and was able to put down a really good effort for the two hour climb.

I just finalized some plans to go out to San Diego for a few weeks of training with a friend of mine Will Smith. He arranged a place to stay and we found some really reasonable tickets so the whole dilly is going to be dirt cheap. We also have the opportunity to do some of our riding with Floyd Landis who will be prepping for the Tour of California. Floyd is said to be flying right now so we will only be able to do his easy days with him but it will still be pretty cool to ride with a former Tour winner. Thats all the news for now.