Big Beaver Brewery

On my way home after today's blow out at Quadrock 25 miler I needed some pain meds to deal with my injury.

So I got me one of these.

This is one of my top 5 breweries.  They have some good brews there and were letting us sample everything.  More on the race and injury in a later post.

Breweries Visited

After seeing this guy brag on Facebook about all the breweries he has visited I thought I could match it.  Guess not, after going through the list it seems I like to visit the same ones over and over.  I really thought I had been to more of them.  Anyways with that said I started a page that is linked above to start tracking them.  Hopefully I can push this list closer to 50 by the end of the year.

http://www.shadmika.blogspot.com/p/brewerys-visited.html

And of course the best brewery out there!

New Header Photo.

Not sure if you noticed or not but yesterday I changed the photo at the top of my blog to this awesome photo.    Yes that is the Boulder Hills that we all love so dearly.

This photo was taken by my buddy Rob Timko.  If you need any photos taken he also has a studio in his place or can work outside.  You can see some of his work on his blog by clicking here.  You can also contact him through Facebook here.

Here are a couple of photos he took from his blog and Facebook.

His wife

Top of Hope Pass

Views on the Boulder trails

The man himself

Kohl 5K

Had a much better race than I expected at the Kohl Elementary 5K this past weekend.  I was curious where my speed fitness was before the Bolder Boulder later this month.  With GZ pushing me I was able to hit a new PR of 18:31.  Thanks GZ!  You can see his longer report here.

My whole approach to this race was to try and run by heart rate.  Keeping it between 170-175 the first 2 miles and ignore it the last 1.1 miles.  This approach seems to work good for me for the 5K distance.  I am not sure how I am going to approach the 10K yet.  Maybe 165-170?

Anyways here is the breakdown according to Garmin Connect.

First Tracks

I got first tracks heading up towards Shadow Canyon from South Mesa Trailhead on my lunch run yesterday.  Just plan ass beautiful out !

5 miles and 1010ft of gain in 48:20, slow but steady.  This is becoming my favorite lunch run even though I can not go quite as far due to the 10 min drive to and from the trailhead from work.

1st American Mount Everest Summit

It was 50 years ago today that an American stood on the summit of Everest.  This 1963 Life magazine is one of my prized things that I have.  I also have the 1953 Life magazine from the 1st ever Everest summit.  They are a great read,  I am willing to loan them out for good beer.