Hooray Bristol!

I'm officially on a bender if yunz guys haven't figured it out by now.

Shamrock Brewery

Unfortunately, they don't have Yuengling here. The Irish Red is pretty tasty though.

Bingo Burger!

Raptor Resolution Run

32:35 for five miles. Windy as hell in Pueblo today.

Heart Attack Grill

Can't believe I forgot to mention the world famous Heart Attack Grill in all the Vegas posts. The burgers weren't quite on par with King's Chef, but pretty close.

Here's some pretty good food porn just for the CRUD guys:

Then, of course, there's the infamous nurse waitresses. Didn't get any good pics of the ones we had, but they were on par with what you would expect.

brownie/Murphy's/CSCO/PBR #0

branding

Here is the new brand/slogan/logo/whatever that was picked by the CS Indy for our fine town:

For all the uproar caused by this issue, I'm not sure how the above logo is any more or less retarded than the original slogan.

brownie, Triple Nickel Tavern, CSCO, PBR #0

new training partner

Me and Matt C at the recent Incline Club gift exchange on x-mas morning. If I look fast, it's because I'm actually wearing Matt's vest. If Matt looks drunk, it's because of all the gin fumes I was giving off at 8AM.

Be sure to check out the shitstorm of comments over here.

3000

7.5 miles to work this morning. Just over 3000 on the year. Looks like I got there a few hours ahead of Andy, obviously proving who the better runner is.

back at it

Nice morning run with the Sunrise Striders. Warm up over to BFNH (Big Fucking Nasty Hill) in Bear Creek Park, then 8 x 60 seconds up the hill. Could tell I hadn't done that kind of workout in a long time, by repeat #6 I was really struggling. 6.8 miles, 68 minutes.

2984.3 miles on the year. Cutting it a little close, but should comfortably get to 3000 by Thursday. Less than 100 miles in December, other than a good first half at Vegas it's been a super chill month.

Yellow Beer Challenge

The 2012 Challenge is getting ready to begin. Details here. If you want in, the beta is posted on that website.

Thanks to Wiley for putting that all together.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

$100 and I spent x-mas at the local zoo. Good times! The giraffes are in the Rift Valley section, always good to get back to my Kenyan roots.

Incline Beer Mile

At the CRUD run some of were talking about the recent FoCo Vertical Beer Mile. We then moved on to the possibility of having an Incline Beer Mile.

Beer #1 - the bottom

Beer #2 - the no trespassing sign

Beer #3 - Barr Trail bail point

Beer #4 - the false summit

Working on what the penalty lap would be. I suggested a "reversal of fortune" would require the runner to summit Rocky Mountain. Rick said the puker could possibly go back down the Incline, either to the bottom or to the last beer stop. Still some details to work out, which can be done while running and drinking.

Still can't believe CRUD has never hosted a beer mile, but look for it to happen sometime this spring.

CRUD run

Above pic from Paul D. Here's his comment: "Nice day for a snowy trail run! We are at mile 8 of what we'll be racing on Jan 14 at the Ponderous Posterior 50K. That is the incline in the background and we'll be running up that during the race. I expect there will be some tears on race day!"

9.2 miles, 1:49. Slow pace, but we were dealing with quite a bit of snow.

Rescue Run

Logo for the Jan 1st 10/5K. Hopefully it's not 20 below on race day.

victory!

Jeremy has raised the white flag. I ran the first four days of the week, took the bus today. He drove everyday. Come enjoy the growler he fills for me at the PPRR Winter Series race #2.

big apple

Just found out my NOLA run qualified me for the 2012 NYC Marathon. Think I'm gonna take the plunge.

The race is more expensive than Hardrock.

Thurs

8" of snow on the Westside, a solid 6" downtown. Was going to pull a Nick and say, "damn, shitty weather, I'll just bag this run" but I knew I'd get made fun of. Shoveled the sidewalks (unlike my crappy neighbor O'Day) and then ran 5.2 miles to work, 55:30. Weather channel, as well as the digital thermostat I run by halfway to work both said 19F, but either I'm getting used to Colorado weather or it was warmer than that. Probably helped that I had four layers of warm clothes on.

Driving tomorrow. But it's supposed to be a lot nicer out then.

new FKT

Inspired by Dakota's recent post, I rocked a new FKT from my office to my front porch tonight. 5.4 miles, 49:04. The long route, via the new hike-and-bike. Might never be broken, since I'm not going to let anyone know where I work.

I was going to drive to work tomorrow, but Happy Trails called me out. Think it's going to be -4000F at 6AM.