new hash blogger!

Everyone go tell C-4 how much her blog sucks!

C-muthafuckin'-4

And notice that the Kimchi's are quickly overtaking Austin for most hash bloggers.

reserve update

Due to expected temps in the mid-60s for this weekend, the Air Force has cancelled the weekend and I don't hafta report until December.

Actually, they said it was a paperwork SNAFU.

One more month to grow my hair and do all kindsa drugs!

Boulder

Good article about the elite running scene up in Boulder, sent to me by one of the fastest American red-headed female runners in Saudi Arabia, Firetunnel.

Boulder

Makes me glad I'm a trail guy, I can't imagine passing someone I knew, or even didn't know, on a trail and not saying hello. Or saying, as Crabby Cathy said to me at the Pikes marathon, "Fuck you, get fucking moving, you fucking asshole!"

And by the way, congrats to Nicole, who did the Conroe half-Ironman in under six hours. Great job, but I can't imagine how good she'd be if she quit nagging me about my drinking and used all that extra time to train.

Not sure how I'm gonna take a month off, I was getting the itch to hit the Palmer Park trails yesterday. But my laziness is holding steady, and I'm up to 177 pounds! Woohoo! FBAC forever (or at least 'till after Thanksgiving)!

new roof

Ordered a new roof. Everyone keep their fingers, or legs, or labia, or whatever crossed for good (i.e., dry) weather in Colorado these next few days!

Filed a police report. Told the cop there was some guy named Kirk Bigger who was at the bar that night talking about how much money one can get for selling used jeep roofs. Of course, before I called the fuzz, I had to call a bunch of the Kimchi's and say, "did you assholes take my roof?"

And as luck would have it, I'm working in Pueblo today. Time to go put on some extra layers for that drive.

Fuckers!

Some a-hole stole the roof of my jeep last night! I'd be really pissed if it weren't kinda funny.

Cocktoberfest

Think it was a pretty good time at the Kimchi hash yesterday, not that I remember much of it. Pics are here.

Iraq

Was rooting through some boxes today and came across some old Iraq pics. Sheesh, like the folks over there didn't lead miserable enough lives already, now they hafta deal with heavily armed Americans stopping by and taking their food!

The pics didn't turn out too good, they were from a disposable camera, but they're here if you wanna see 'em.

This is my last weekend as a civilian, as next Saturday I report to Peterson AFB to begin my term in the Air Force Reserve.

the Leadville quest

Gonna be taking some time off for a bit. Might try to hike some of the lower peaks around the Front Range, but basically for the next month I'll be sitting around drinking beer and getting fat. Been beating my body up pretty good since I got to Colorado and I think the rest will do me good.

Training for Leadville will start on November 26 when the Incline Club begins it's Sunday runs. Also have a tentative race schedule planned:

March 17 - Zeb Pike Marathon
April 14 - Greenland 50K
June 17 - San Juan Solstice 50 miler
July 1 - Leadville Trail Marathon
July 15 - Grand Canyon Traverse (44 miles)
August 18 - Leadville Trail 100 miler

My goal at Leadville will be for a sub-24, and that's gonna take a lot of hard training. Planning on doing a lot of Saturday runs of 30 to 40 miles with the Incline Club run the next day. Wanna work a bit more on speed this season, so I might throw in a couple of shorter races too.

Unfortunately this will prevent me from doing the Pikes Peak weekend. I'll still get to see all the Austinites though, assuming I'm not in the hospital I'd return to the Springs on Sunday in pleanty of time to mooch free beer off Rogue and watch the Pikes Marathon.

Top 5!

The coaches poll for the upcoming NCAA hoops season came out today, and Pitt is tied with UCLA for #5! We are ahead of all the following teams: Wisconsin, Texas, Texas A&M, Syracuse, Penn State, Notre Dame, Georgetown, and even Bucknell.

Burnet Road Challenge

Good luck to all those participating in tonight's Burnet Road Challenge. Sure wish I could be there. Above are the before and after pics of last year's inagural challenge. To review the rest of my pics, click here.

more snow

Couple more snow pics. Still coming down pretty hard. As you can see, my neighbor's tree hasn't taken well to the storm. Would love to get a shot of Pikes but visibility is nowhere near good enough. Couple more pics are here.

let it snow!

First blizzard of the season! Woohoo! No work!

woohoo!

Parole office closed today due to the snow, no work for me today! Good thing I stocked up at the liquor store last night!

Hail to Pitt!

More good sports news for Pittsburgh, as the Pitt Panthers were picked by the Big East hoops coaches to win the conference this year. Aaron Gray was also tabbed as the Big East preseason player of the year! Sure is gonna be a tough season though, the Big East is loaded.

Quinn's

Just found this on the Quinn's website. This was way back when Nicole was still talking to me.

LET'S GO PENS!

Damn, how 'bout them first place Pittsburgh Penguins!

happy birthday!

Melissa turns the big three oh today! Rumor has it she may stop by the Kimchi happy hour this Friday.

Kimchi shirts

Thinking of taking orders for CKH3 shirts. Not sure what the overall design would be, but the emphasis would be on the design pictured above. Kimchi mismanagement is unable to keep any extra hash cash in the bank as we immediately spend anything we have on booze, so these would be a prepaid deal. Would like to keep the shirts under $15, then charge everyone $15 so I could finance a good binge. Let me know if you're interested.

palo duro

Great trip, if not a great run, down to Palo Duro Canyon in Amarillo this weekend.

I know a lot of my regular readers hail from Texas, and unfortunately not a whole lot of 'em have ever visited a TX state park. Yunz need to get out there, they are some of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.

And Palo Duro was no exception. The second biggest canyon in the USA and a killer trail system to boot. Lots of colorful (red, white, green..) rocks. Lots of sweet singletrack. Unfortunately I didn't get to take too many pics.

The run was good and bad. The first 30 or so miles were great, the last 20 were hell. Hit the halfway point in 4 hours and the marathon mark well under 4:20. Just a few miles later I was done though. Had nothing in the tank. Was unable to keep any liquids or solids down. Kept pushing though, in hopes that the final lap would bring an adrenaline boost. But it never came. Around 42 miles I decided I had had enough and I decided to walk it in. Not sure what was more depressing, the fact that I had to walk or the fact that my pace didn't drop off much once I quit running.

Had enjoyed the incredible scenery the first three laps, but by lap four I was ready to fill the canyon with concrete and slap a wal-mart on it. Very painful. Walked for about three miles and then decided to get it over with and slowly jogged the remainder. Took me 90 minutes longer to do the second half than the first half. Ugh.

Still, it was a great weekend. Nice to get back to TX again, especially nice to see a bunch of my old HCTR buddies. Even had at least six Colo Springs folks head down, four of whom were hashers. And for the record, the Kimchi Ultrahashing team (myself and Long Hard One) greatly outperformed the Pikes Peak ultrarunners (NIPS and Strip Me). Just goes to show everyone who the real hash in the Springs is!

Anyways, the run took a lot out of me and I'm gonna hafta think long and hard about whether or not I wanna do Leadville. I'm mentally tough enough to push my body through fifty miles, but no way I'd be able to do that for 100 miles. I can honestly see me getting through about 70 miles and then running into serious medical issues I don't want to deal with. Maybe I'll look into some performance enhancing drugs, since they never test for those at ultras. We'll see.

Palo Duro

I'll be making my return trip to Texas tomorrow, heading down to Amarillo for the Palo Duro 50 miler. Not really ready for a race of that distance, but oh well. I'm hoping all the oxygen down there will help me out. Will be nice to see a bunch of my HCTR buddies though! Plus, Colorado Springs has four hashers going down for the race! Woohoo!

six inches

Colorado Springs got it's first major snowfall of the year last night. And it reminded me of a great joke:

"A girl told me to give her twelve inches and hurt her. So I fucked her twice and hit her over the head with a brick!"

HAHAHAHAHA!

Jack Quinn's Wanking Club

The Jack Quinn's Running Club fell a few notches in my book today, as the regular Tuesday night run was cancelled due to the whopping half an inch of snow that fell on Colorado Springs. Some of the more hard core drinkers refused to take no for an answer though, and showed up anyways. Mostly hashers, of course.

hash weekend

Have hit three hashes over the past three days, and it looks like a go for the final DIM hash of the season tonight!

Sat night's Kimchi hash went pretty good. I may be biased since I was one of the hares, but I thought it was a great trail and great time afterwards. Also liked the survivor-style awarding of the hashshit.

The Denver hash rocked! Went up with Jizz Mopper (Tits on a Ritz) and was treated to a great trail! Lots and lots of great Colorado shiggy. Pabst, Strohs, and even a few cans of Iron City at the end. Even a visit by the sheriff's department to end the circle.

I've recruited Knees Up and Free Bus(c)h to co-hare a Denver hash with me in early 2007, so all yunz CO hashers be prepared for a great trail!

college hoops

College hoops has officially started, and Pitt is ranked #8 in the CNN/SI power poll! Wisconsin and Texas A&M are also ranked in the top ten (and A&M is higher than UT, so Gagger can root for the Aggies again).

new yahoogroup

Started a Kimchi hash yahoogroup, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kimchih3 to sign up.

MOPP

Good times at the MOPP hash on Friday. It was "dress as a serial killer" themed, but the only one who looked scary was Bloody Z, who wasn't wearing a mask.

Pics are here.

new hash blogger

Everyone go and tell NASCOCK how much his blog sucks!

I love Drawn Together!

What do you call a vagina?

I call it a taxi, so I can roll over and get some sleep!

HAHAHAHAHA!

running and drinking

Friday (and Saturday, and Sunday, and Monday) is a hashing day!

My intense workout schedule, beginning this Friday:

Fri - MOPP hash
Sat - Kimchi hash
Sun - Denver hash
Mon - DIM hash
Tues - Jack Quinn's running club
Wed - CO Running Company happy hour

Woohoo!

Grays/Torreys

Since I didn't get nearly enough exercise on Saturday, I was talked into leading a hike up Grays and Torreys Peak with Melissa and $100 Buck.

Weather reports were iffy. But we took a chance, and the weather ended up holding (barely) just enough for us to grab both peaks. Visibility rarely was better than 20 feet, and I got to practice my glissading (fancy word for falling on your ass and sliding) on the way back.

For the record, it was Melissa's 5th 14er and $100's 3rd. I had climbed both peaks before, but am currently at 23 14ers climbed (twelve different mountains, plus Grays and Torreys twice, plus Pikes a bunch of times).

Bright idea of the day definitely went to Melissa. Grays stands at 14,270 feet (the highest point on the continental divide, FYI) and Torreys weighs in at 14,267 feet. Mel wants to take a shovel up to Grays and take off four feet so Torreys can jump it on the 14er list. Good luck on that!

Burgers and beers at Tommyknocker's in Idaho Springs capped off an awesome Colorado weekend!

Coors

After a post race shower at the local 7-11 it was off to take a tour of the Coors brewery. I'm not a big fan of Coors by any means, but since I was in Golden I figured I'd check it out. Plus, I heard there was free beer at the end.


Ended up being a pretty decent tour. Not nearly as cool as the time my dad and I toured the Yuengling brewery, but there are worse ways to spend an afternoon. And sure enough, at the end of the tour, you get three free pints of beer. I had Coors, Blue Moon, and Killian's Red. $100 Buck had three different flavors of Zima.

Danielsesque

Up to Golden this past weekend for the Danielsesque Marathon. Wasn't expecting much, just using it as a good training run for my upcoming 50 miler at Palo Duro.

Seems I'm becoming somewhat of an altitude snob. Figured this would be an easy course. Elevation only went up to 7500 feet! Hell, my apartment in the Springs is almost that high!

What I failed to see was that the elevation profile had no flat sections.

And that was my day. I was either climbing a gnarly, technical, quad burning hill, or I was bombing down the other side, trying not to fall and break a bone or three.

But besides beating the tar out of my body for over six hours, I was treated to one of the better trails I've ever had the pleasure to run on. Reminded me a lot of Bandera, but with better scenery and without the heat. I'd be climbing some killer hill through a thick forest, then the top would clear out giving me an awesome view of the Denver skyline. Trail would then loop around and I'd get an eyefull of the continental divide, snow capped mountains as far as the eye could see.

So even though I beat myself up a little more than I wanted to, it was a pretty good run. Kinda pissed that I didn't wear a watch, as my official time was 6:00:23. I'm sure I coulda pushed it a little bit over the final two miles (all downhill) to get in under six hours. But for a low key race I had a great time. Ended up getting two technical t-shirts and a bunch of other crap for the entry fee of $35, not too shabby. Plus I did pretty well against the competition, which was pretty decent.

Hell yeah!

Everyone has opinions on world events these days, but very, very few actually do anything about it. Nice to see somebody willing to suffer to back up the tough talk.

Alaska

ROWYCO

Niall Pelton, after eating the brown acid at this years ACL festival.

typical Colorado weekend

Pretty laid back weekend here in the Springs. I'll post about all these in more detail later, but here's the highlights:

Fri: Kimchi happy hour at Arctic Brewing, which included samples of the new ButterJack Stout! It's good, and I can't wait for the MOPP hash this Friday so I can drink some more.

Sat: Top ten finish at Danielsesque, one of the hardest courses I've ever run. Followed by a tour of the Coors brewery.

Sun: Greys and Torreys Peak, in the snow, with $100 Buck and Just Melissa. Burgers and beers at Tommyknocker afterwards.

Of course, the Steelers had to go and end the weekend on a sour note for me.

MOPP hash this Friday!

$100 Buck and Tits on a Ritz are gonna hare a MOPP hash this Friday. Time TBD but it'll start at Arctic Brewing. Good place to start, since Arctic will be finally be tapping their Butterjack Stout. It's been sitting in old Jack Daniels wooden barrels for several months now. Had a sneak preview last night and it was quite yummy.

On a related note, it's probably not the best idea in the world to be hanging out at Arctic the night before an ultra. Oh well. Off to the Danielsesque Marathon...

excitement in the Springs

This happened across the street from where I work. Turns out I knew the hostage taker. He'd come into the parole office once a week, and I'd shoot the shit with him for a while before his parole officer yelled at him for whatever. A warrant for his arrest was issued about a month ago, and I hadn't seen him since.

Mark Foley should be given a choice:

1. Castration
or
2. Six year enlistment as an 11B (not some cushy officer gig) in the 82nd Airborne, including two tours in Iraq.

Then he tries to blame alcohol. What a fucking piece of shit.

10th time's a charm!

Grabbed my tenth summit of Pikes on Sunday, details here.

what is this world coming to?

An Amish school shooting? Good Lord!!!

FYI, back when I was at Pitt I used to date an Amish gal. I visited her house over x-mas one year, and of course I made her take me to the Amish town of Intercourse, PA. There's a road you can drive on, and you go through the towns of Blueball, Intercourse, and Paradise, in that order. So I got the t-shirt that said, "Intercourse - somewhere between Blueball and Paradise."

great quote!

"I think I'll have one more cigarette, and then quit."

-Scott Mink (an hour before his execution for beating his parents to death)

baseball season ends...

Pirates not only end their season on a two game winning streak but Freddy Sanchez grabs two hits to win the NL batting title!

Buccos finished 43-38 at home, their first winning season at the new stadium. Also finished with a winning record after the all star break (37-35) for the first time since 1436. OK, it was actually 1992.

But now that the Pittsburgh baseball season is over, I'm going to bury the hatchet and support all those H-town bloggers and root for the Astros in the playoffs!

Cockfest '06

NASCOCK and Cock Scratch Fever, from last nights Kimchi hash. Got drunk enough to volunteer to lay the Halloween trail on Oct 28th!