Friday Dec 25th – Christmas day cycling – 18.3 miles, 1hr 10minutes. [Ride info]. Had dinner with the parents in PDX. Secured some black tea

Saturday Dec 26th – Went snowboarding at MHM after dark with Javier, Chad and Jim. The runs were well groomed. Photos have been posted on Facebook.

Later that night, I started to plan out the major cycling rides for 2010. Some invites have already been sent out on Facebook (sorry for all of the spam). The ride events that I plan on doing this year are listed below. Note that most of these rides are for a good cause, I encourage you to participate!

• Worst Day of the Year Ride – February 14th – Tentative – I will most likely volunteer as a ride along mechanic (~40 mi)
• Reach the Beach 2010 (American Lung Association)- May 15, 2010
• LiveSTRONG 2010 (Lance Armstrong Foundation) – Seattle – June 20, 2010 (Tentative, falls on Father’s day)
• Seattle to Portland 2010 – July 17-18, 2010
• Tour de Cure 2010 (American Diabetes Association) – July 31, 2010
• Portland Twilight Criterium (Just a spectator cycling event) – August 6, 2010 (Tentative date; official event not yet announced)
• Hottest Day of the Year Ride – Early August – Tentative – I will most likely volunteer as a ride along mechanic (~45 mi)
• Providence Bridge Pedal 2010 (Providence medical) – August 8, 2010
• Portland Century – Mid August – Tentative – I will most likely volunteer as a ride along mechanic (~60 / 100 mi)
• Tour de Vine – are we doing any rides in Oregon’s Wine country this year? Seth??

Of course, there will also be a bunch of random rides after work and on the weekends.

Sunday Dec 27th – Went cycling with Erik around HB. 22.11 miles. [Ride info]. I DID IT!!! Cycled 2509 miles for the year! I’ll put in more if the weather holds for the next few days. If not, we’ll start counting the new miles early January 2010!

• March 2009 – 107.29 miles (3/12 start)
• April 2009 – 340.03 miles
• May 2009 – 463.55 miles
• June 2009 – 530.47 miles… See More
• July 2009 – 464.37 miles
• August 2009 – 308.76 miles
• September 2009 – 106.40 miles
• October 2009 – 000.00 miles – wow, that is sad.
• November 2009 – 38.33 miles – that is sad too!
• December 2009 – 149.36 miles (12/12 – 12/27)

79 total rides for the year. 162.8 hours on my bike (6.8 days).
I need to fix those low mileage months in 2010

Went to dinner at Panera bread with Erik, Irene and David. I got the french onion sour dough bread bowl. That was pretty darn good.

Alright people, until next time! Ride on and stay safe!
-T

So this is a tangent on what i normally do. I figure since my last post was just of the week day, I should have a followup post about the weekend

December 18th – Got dinner at Panera Bread w/Jess – Chicken noodle soup in a sour dough bread bowl, with a beget on the side. Then Starbucks for tea / coffee. Good way to start off a snowboarding weekend. Drove into PDX starting at 7, left PDX around 8:30 with Simon, Chao, Kedy. Stopped by Popeye’s for a second dinner – good stuff! It’s been a while since I’ve stopped at a Popeye’s. I think the last one that I went to was in Troutdale 3-4 years back.

We got into Government camp around 10pm. I found out that Felicia Day commented on my blog post regarding watching the episode of ‘Lie to Me’ with her guest starring. Had to share that point with everyone. Pretty cool!

December 19th – A super rainy start for the day. Most of my gear got soaked through. My core gear was still dry, but the snowboarding pants, crash pads, socks and boots were drenched. Not a fun way to spend a day on the mountain. We found a set of jumps in the Mitchel Creek area and went through those a few times. The rain let up towards the end of the afternoon and we explored the backside of the mountain on Shooting Star and HRM. I crashed pretty good while going down on HRM. I caught the edge of my board and started flipping over, knocked my knee into the snow pretty good. When we got back to the cabin, it really hurt going up and down the stairs. Not a good sign. Took several ibuprofen to help relax things a little, and just hope for the best for Sunday. Stupid knee.

Eh... warnings. Just merely suggestions.

We spent some time on the back side of the mountain with the new gear and the Circuit-R board checked out pretty nicely. Last thing we did for the day was hit up the large terrain jump — landed both times, cleared it on my second attempt, piece of cake. We went to the Roadhouse in Gresham for dinner.

Ugh. I got home, unpacked my gear and started the laundry, washed the dishes and cleaned up around the house. So much work to do! The kitchen, 2nd floor bath, floors are good to go. However, the wood floor cleaning product has some really obnoxious fumes. I currently feel lightheaded and I want to vomit . Hopefully all of this airs out by tomorrow so people won’t be inhaling that Monday night. Can’t wait to make dinner for people again!

-T

I spent the MLK weekend down in Sunriver/Mt. Bachelor for some good snowboarding! We stayed at a 5-bedroom cabin with 22 or so people and it was fun.

I got off of work around 2 on Friday, drove into Portland, picked up Simon and started to drive down to Salem. Chantelle saw me driving down 39th and Powell, it was random! We picked up Connie and Jess, then drove the remaining 147 miles to our lodge in Sunriver. We found out that there is a 11 Tumalo (Ln, St, Ct) in Sunriver and Bend!

It was cold Saturday morning in Sunriver, Mt Bachelor was suprisingly warmer. On Sunday, it was the opposite!

Photos will be uploaded when I get a chance!

This is year two (of who knows how many) for making it to Mt. Bachelor for the MLK weekend. Last year, it was our group of 5 and EPIC group from OSU and UO.

Friday Jan 5th: We watched Accepted with Chantelle, Christen, Katie, Natasha and Troy.
Saturday Jan 6th: Went snowboarding up at Meadows. I drove myself up there, but boy, it was worth it!
Sunday Jan 7th: Laying low for the day to rest up and prepare for a long week of work.
Monday Jan 8th: Not a horrible Monday at work. One of my test cards work!

I spent the last few days of 2006 (and my vacation) at Whistler, Canada! We left Thursday morning @ 6am (12/28), and returned at 7am 12/31.

Pics will be posted soon. I just need to get around to it.

Click on the “read on” link to view the video!

We’ve celebrated the last 5 new years as a group. And this will be year number 6 of many to come. Here’s a recap of our Dec 31st’s: 2001. 2002 [1, 2]. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006 .. hasn’t happened yet!

-Thomas

It’s been a few days since my last post. Since then, I’ve:

• Gone snowboarding with Lam and two of his co-workers @ Meadows
• Hung out with my friends at Nat’s party
• Bought a neato Christmas present for myself. You’ll see what it is in a few days. :p
• Caught up on my TV shows (Bones, House M.D., Lost, Scrubs) and also watched Hitch for kicks

I’m going to see The Pursuit of Happyness on Tuesday and snowboarding this Wednesday.. do you want to go to either? (or better yet, both?)

Here are some pics from Simon’s camera:

I landed on my jump!
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So after seeing one triumph, these are my other jump attempts for the day… I hope I never have this form going off a jump again. They hurt on the landing. Thank goodness for the helmet, wrist guards and the knee pads! … Now if I only had a butt pad for these… I look like a cartoon character going off the ledge. Shoot.

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Corey and Chani:
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Corey’s speed run:
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My speed run:
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The snow was absolutely fresh, and it was just perfect for the second weekend! — but it was COLD. The temp at base camp (5250 feet) was 15 degrees in the morning, and 13 degrees at 6600 feet. The high at base camp was a mere 18 degrees, and at 6600 feet, it only got up to 16 degrees!

To start, here are some pics of Simon’s doing some jumps with crazy air!

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Group shots

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Others

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