catch up

Well, I see it has been a bit since I posted. I've been playing tennis, about 4 times in the last 3 weeks or so. Played 2 sets the first 3 times, but on Friday I had the day off, and we ended up playing 4 sets in the middle of the day (seemed too hot for Flagstaff that day). I haven't played tennis regularly in a very long time, but now I want to just keep playing... so much fun and good exercise.

I went swimming a couple times last week also... doing 500 meters the first time, then pushed it to 600 meters on Sunday. Took me around 22 minutes to do 600 meters. I need to look back at my posts from last year to see how that compares.

Last night I rode the exercise bike for about 40 minutes too... going to try to do a little something every day if I can.

The Arizona cyclocross series is starting up later in September. I'm missing the first race for an important beer drinking function, but I plan to try to make the other 5 races (or at least the second and see how demoralized I am afterward). Cyclocross looks like a lot of fun.

Lockett Meadow / Inner Basin Trail

I did manage to go up to Lockett Meadow on Monday. The trail was much rockier than I was expecting, so I ended up just pushing my bike up most of the way. It started to get late and I was worried about being able to see while going down over the rocks, so I turned around early. I took some pictures with my new camera:

more pipeline

2 weeks ago tuesday, I went with a friend down pipeline again from my house, but we went way past where I have gone before. We did pipeline to these little windy rocky trails (looks like the pipeline road is blocked here for a bit), then back on pipeline up to Lower Oldham. Lower Oldham back down to Buffalo Park has a really fun downhill part at the start, then a long uphill with a bunch of rock obstacles (well, they are obstacles to me). We went across the new pedestrian bridge before splitting up to head home, cruising down that hill by the high school was pretty fun too. Took around an hour altogether I think... was good fun. I went and did this same ride on wednesday too... I think next time I will try to explore the other direction on Lower Oldham, up to the Mt. Elden lookout road to see how that is.

I've been swimming a few more times too. I think I only did 250m last sunday, but yesterday I went and did the 400m I planned to do.

I bought myself a digital camera yesterday because I want to start taking pictures as I explore around here. If the weather isn't too bad this afternoon (monsoon thunderstorms all week is the forecast) I want to drive up to Lockett Meadow, and take the bike out on the inner basin trail.