MS 150 June 26th 2010

Our MS 150 ride what a great day the weather was perfect and it's such a great course we had such a good time and it was for such a great cause.  Thanks again to every one who donated to our ride.

Just finished our ride and we are so happy to be done.

Total miles 100 what a good feeling.

Wow we did it.   

Total time in the saddle.

Lunch stop I was sooo tired

Our fearless team. 

Pink Licorice

After I passed my vascular boards my cute husband congratulated me with a wonderful gift.  He pinked up my mountain bike (licorice is her name). They may be pink but they are kick ass components.

Here is licorice before Brad began to work on her. 

A White Fox fork

Brad working hard on Licorice.  She is already looking good.

Chris King bottom bracket in PINK!

The pink looks so good with black.

Truvativ Noir carbon crank in PINK! (noticing a theme)

Brad working hard

My new wheels the Easton Haven (AKA the game changers)

Hope2 brakes in PINK.  soooo cute

I think I love the brakes the most!!

This is one happy mountain bike owner! 

I would like to Thank Brad for all his hard work on my Licorice and Eric for such a wonderful gift.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival June 2010

We went to Telluride Colorado for the Bluegrass festival but we stayed over in Moab at our friend Kevin's place to get a little mountain biking and to break up the long drive to Telluride. The festival was fantastic we were with great friends and just had a blast.

Okay a pink prius in Moab.....I didn't get the option to get a pink prius? Maybe she sells Mary Kay I guess I'll never know.

The two Ellsworth's basking in the sun.... They really like Moab.

We were out on the Moab brand trail (across from Gemini bridges) and there was a hot air balloon out floating around. In this picture it had landed just over the hill from us and was just swaying in the breeze.

Eric snapping a photo of me climbing....the only reason is he is so much faster than me he has time to get off his bike find his camera and still has time to get the picture.


What a croud! This was such a fun festival and lots of fantastic people watching.


Cheers!

Telluride by night!

There is this cute path along the river that we took everyday from our condo to the venue.

Allison Krause she was absolutely amazing and very funny.

Me, Eric, Lyle Lovett and a few thousand of our closest friends.


Our first hike was up to Bear Creek falls. It was sooo cold sitting there.

This was such a gorgeous hike up to bridal veil falls in Telluride.

One hell of a week!!

Well I haven't blogged for a while because I've been a little busy but it's all come to a close. I am proud to say on Tuesday I passed the second portion of my Vascular boards so I am now officially a RVT (Registered vascular technologist). Unfortunately that has given me no free time to train for the Little red riding hood century (100miles) so I had from Tuesday to Saturday to train (I was able to do one 20 mile ride on Thursday with my friend Carol), well I did it 100miles in 6hours and 41 minutes of saddle time!! I don't recommend it if you haven't trained, but it was absolutely awesome the course was great and the time flew by.
Today we had Rich and Bonnie up to celebrate Rich's Birthday and Father's day so we rode our bike's down to the lake and went stand up paddle boarding. It was a great end to a really long a stressful week. The Margarita made it all worth while.

Also this week I bought the dogs some beach wear so they could look really cool when we go out paddle boarding.


My cute little pinky after her long ride.

My total saddle time!! My backside definitely felt every moment of the last hour of that.

Well they boast it as a century but It was only 99.1 miles I guess I could have ridden around the block a few times to make it official.

Rich and Bonnie heading out on Pineview on the paddle boards.

Eric and I attempting to tandem paddle board it was really difficult but we had fun.

WOW she must work out!

I had my Cabana boy paddle me around on the lake.

Rich and Bonnie making it look easy.

Madison and her cool new beach wear.

Gracie looking very gangster.

OMG this is so humiliating.

I make this look good.

Are you looking at me?

Please make them take these off of us.

This is also a day of remembrance. June 6, 1944 is when our troops came upon the beaches of Normandy, France which was the turning point in the European theater of World War II

Eric and Bill standing in a crater that was created by a bomb on Utah beach

This is the entrance out to Omaha beach.

I was in awe the amount of head stones, it was a beautiful place for our soldiers to be laid to rest so far away from their homes and families.