The Courage Classic is coming up very fast. This very weekend in point of fact. I am still taking donations for the ride at http://www.firstgiving.com/BikerMikey2007 or in person. I head out on Saturday.

I did the Tour de Peaks this last weekend and had a fabulous ride. This is a great ride I did not see any support vehicles on the road, that I could identify at least. A really beautiful area to ride and the first 32 miles had almost 1,000 feet of elevation gain. Right after the rest stop it started raining. Then it started pouring a little later. My shoes filled up with water, causing lots of spinning mass for my feet, and a very uncomfortable ride. I should have brought my rain gear, then it would not have rained. I was all my fault it rained. The sun came out just before the end of the ride to taunt me to start the second half, but I didn’t fall for it. Here are the few pix I took.

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Well I did it. I sunk my $30 and got a T-Shirt and a 5K run. The one and only Toyota – Tacoma Narrows Bridge Run. benefiting the Tacoma General Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. A quote from the site “The Tacoma Narrows Bridge 5K run/Walk will be the first, last, and only time the new span of the tacoma Narrows bridge will be open for an organized run/walk across the bridge, EVER.” hmmm I wonder about the old span? I was a great day and I am sorry I forgot everything this time, not just my camera. I even forgot my phone, that kinda has a camera in it, and my wallet (no camera). Bummer. I finished in amazing time… it seemed to take forever. But it was fun if a little warm at times. I just went to the race results at Athletes Lounge. Where I found this note expecting to see when the results would be posted “RESULTS WILL BE POSTED AFTER 5:00PM ON JULY 15, 2007″ but no results, let me check my watch… 8:34PM another bummer. It had me excited for a moment. Maybe tomorrow.

I recently picked up a Cannon PowerShot SD450 Digital ELPH. Pretty small and lightweight, seems to take decent pictures I will be taking this on the Courage Classic this year so look out for pictures. Man I am going to need a better paying job if I keep buying toys.

Well, I gotta run… I mean walk slowly and carefully. Biking is not ideal training for running, but it does help.

Well I had a lovely ride into work this morning, I loaded up a backpack with crap and took the racer in. On my way I ran afoul of the illustrious work of the Tacoma road maintenance crew, and got a pinch flat. There was so much gravel on outer edge of the road on Tyler. I don’t mean little pebbles, I am talking Bam Bam and Dino, sized rocks. Okay, it just seemed like it, between the rough edged holes and rocks on the road it was like biking a mine field. So I changed the tube and took out my trusty Planet Bike Red Zeppelin CO2 inflator. When I started to use it, for the first time, the head separated from the body and it started spraying CO2 everywhere. That sucks.

Then I had some help while posting, here are the photos. I could not get a picture of the actual helping.

Hey, I just turned in my first donations for the Courage Classic.  I already thanked two people here.  Here are some others.

Thanks to:
Lani – Coworker
Karen – Coworker

I am on my way.  Anyone wanting to give by credit card, or without manual intervention, check out my First Giving page at:
http://www.firstgiving.com/BikerMikey2007

Thanks again and party on…