I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike.

So I was finally able to convince Deanna to let me buy an actual road bike (to replace my El Cheapo Depo mountain bike from Wal-Mart) to start doing some serious biking as cross training. I love running but man I forgot how awesome it used to be to head out on a bike and cover some serious miles, like I did as a kid. For me riding my bike as a child was my first real sense of independance and freedom, just riding around the neighborhood or taking of from home and riding up to the bike path and just heading out for hours.

As of now I'm just riding for cross training purposes, but eventually my goal is to do a Triathlon. I got the running and biking down, its the swim portion that is gonna be the real challenge for me, I can swim that's not the problem just the training and having access to a pool that I can do laps in. Probably just end up getting a membership to the Y during the winter and start training for swimming when its far to cold and icy to be riding a bike.

My next big training challenge is to notch a 100 mile week (bike and running) I was able to do 80+ and 90+ the last 2 weeks, with 3 rides and 4-5 runs so hitting the century mark shouldn't be a problem with increasing long runs and long rides on the weekend. Should be interesting to see how my running fitness holds up with running slightly less and biking more, from what I've read for endurance it should help, but probably not gonna do much for my lack of speed, Usain Bolt I'll never be, lol!

Warrior Dash and Father's Day

So for Father's Day most guys might enjoy a round of golf, a barbecue or just a relaxing day with the family...

well not me I had the

Warrior Dash isn't your typical father's day 5k, don't take my word for it here's how they desribe it on the website...

First off it's a trail run through some fairly hilly countryside, and then they add obstacles like 20 ft. walls you have to scale,

cargo nets you have to run across, cars you have to jump over, fire pits to leap over

and there's the barbed wire mud pit right before the finish line. You get this wonderful medal ...

... and all the free mud you could want.

I love running, and really love races, but this race hands down is the most fun and exciting, I can't wait to do it again...there's another one in September and a similar event in October that I want to do as well. I had so much fun that even Deanna said she might try it next year which is awesome!

Casey and Caden had so much fun too, Casey shared a smoked turkey leg with me afterwards, which he really enjoyed, he pretended he was a viking warrior.

And both boys had a blast watching people jump into the mud pit right before the finish line. They both want to run this race with me some day (unfortunately and thankfully the minimum age is 14). I do have to say that I love the effect that my running and participating in these kind of events has had on my boys. I'm not pressuring either of them to be involved in running, physical fitness or sports, I'm just setting the example for them and they are taking my lead and asking to be involved. They have both told me that they want to run a marathon with me someday which makes me so proud as a father, now will see how they feel about it when they are old enough to understand exactly how far 26.2 miles really is.