Skiing at Eagle Point

I finally went skiing like what I planned.  Watching the Winter Olympics in the last two weeks gave me an urge to go skiing.  Last time I skied was like back in 2008 and when I went down the first slope, I was loving it.  I went down to Eagle Point Ski Resort which is near Beaver, UT and it is a 2 hour drive south from here.  It's not bad at all.

This resort is small and it is not Brighton, or Solitude, or Park City but for $25 Fridays, it is worth it.  Plus there is no one there all the time and I can have the whole Mountain to myself.  They also have $10 Thursdays and then it is like $48 on Saturdays so it's worth it to me to go either Thursday or Friday.  I did mostly the blue groomed trails and the black diamond trails to which the moguls were starting to form.  I kind of wanted bigger moguls but these were fine because I'm not that good on them anyway.  It was great fun and what a day!  I just wanted to go once this year.

I did some more biking in the past week.  This is a great picture of my bike and my pride in joy, my dog on the top of Cow Road by the pond.  There is still snow and mud but it's February, right?  March will be better and warmer so I am looking forward to it.

Early Spring? Maybe.

It's been pretty warm lately since after that big snow about 2 weeks ago.  Then all the snow melted so I am done with fat biking, unless I go up the mountains but I don't think that is going to happen.  The Kane Valley road is dry and so is Black Hill but there are a lot spots that are still muddy there.

I went on many rides since it's been warm lately, mostly after work.  I am making sure I leave work right at 4 p.m. every day so I can bike for an hour before it got dark.  It's been very enjoyable.  I try to ride 4 times a week and lift weights once a week.  I really need it and I've been feeling better too.  I'm trying to eat healthier too, like adding lettuce in my sandwiches for lunch and it makes a big difference, also drinking less sugar drinks.   And eating more fruits and vegetables.   I've been riding better too since I've been watching what I eat.

Today, I went on a good ride, I went up Kane Valley Road to the top, then back down to town and climbed up on Cow Road up to the pond.  I rode pretty good and never felt better.  Then on Witch's Knoll with my dog, Duke.  The total ride took a good full hour with 900 vertical feet of climbing.

Almost every day after work, I pretty much get my bike workout done, eat dinner, then enjoy the rest of the evening watching the Winter Olympics. It's been fun in the last two weeks, I love watching the Winter or Summer Olympics every two years, something I look forward to every two years!

Sun and Fun

Still biking out there in the snow!  It's been great lately and it's been nice.  Even it's been nice to be home and working here at home, don't have to travel for a while for work.  Since doing that, I came home from the shop and barely had an hour of sunlight in the day and had chance to do some quick rides for like 30 to 40 minutes but hey, better than doing no exercise.  So I did that twice this week, then a big ride at Black Hill Saturday morning.  So here's some pics.

We do need more snow here in Sanpete Valley, especially in the mountains.  The snowpack is low.  But the forecast said there be some this week.  We do need the moisture.  Anyway, 2 weeks ago, I got the privilege to go on a California trip with the family and it was really nice.  It was delightful and warm, very warm, like 85 to 90 degrees and that was my first time I've been in California.  We got to go to Legoland for a day and California Adventure Land and Disneyland for three days.  We planned the trip for over a year and all the kids including me had a blast.

                    

Sometimes I need to do this napping training plan instead of a biking training plan.  Nice plan!  But I have got a problem, I can never sleep in the daytime.  I'm like hyper or something, but if I really do this napping plan, I'd look like this:

I wouldn't like that....I appreciate what I do everyday!

Great Black Hill Riding

Some great fat biking I have tried on a few rides were in the foot hills outside of town called Black Hill.  There's a lot of roads with a lot of climbs and fast downhills and best of all that all the trucks and atvs have been packing the snow down which made the roads rideable.  The fat bike just makes it safer and fun.  I like to ride there and at by Gordon's farm and at the base of Bald Mountain.  The canyon road is not as fun compared to what I have been riding on because it's so dull and boring and can't get enough miles because of the gradual climb.  The roads at Black Hill are really packing down and turning into ice, so we need more snow!  More snow would be nice.  It's been nice to go out and killing it on a bike again though and the 3 week Christmas break has been wonderful because I've been out on my fat bike almost every day!

Wow

Yesterday I went to do my usual bi-weekly shot/doc visit.  They usually do vital signs every time I get my shot just to check and see if I am doing fine.  After I jumped on the scale, my nurse got into her cabinet and grabbed one of these and told me that I lost one of these in the last two weeks.  Wow!  Probably from all that fat biking!

More Fat Biking

In the past while, I've been riding some more while the snow was great and packed down.  I got to go along the canyon road.  It was really warm though.

I started from Major's Flat so I drove my truck up there with my bike in the back.  I passed a friend along the way down at the bottom by the houses at the mouth of the canyon.  He also has a fat bike so he was riding on one too.  Us too are the only ones in the town that have fat bikes.  So anyway, I started riding from Major's Flat and climbed until to Willow Creek turnoff.  Then I turned around and my friend was there.  He is fast!  Well, he's in good shape and used to race in semi pro back in the days.  Right now he runs Alley Cat Bike Shop in Ephraim.  Made me realize that I am pretty slow and my bike is slow.  His bike has 4 inch tires and mine has 4.8.  Mine is a lot harder to pedal though but has a lot more traction.  Made me want to get a bike with 4 inch tires so I can go faster.  Ha ha.

Another day before that canyon ride, I went more riding and here's some pictures.

This ride, I went on a short one but it was great, just up by Lund Farm, Gordon's Farm, and up a little on the canyon road just up the hydroplant.  Great workouts!

First Snow Bike Ride of the Season

I took the opportunity to go on my fat bike after the snow storm we had right after Thanksgiving weekend.  It snowed quite a bit then it got really cold.  I had a Friday off and went definitely.  That morning, Ephraim made the news up in Salt Lake City that it got below 22 here in Ephraim.  Yeah, pretty cold.  But I waited it out before I went on my ride.  By the time it got 11 degrees at my house, I went.
 

It wasn't so bad because I had some pretty good warm biking clothing gear and also after working out about 10 minutes, it felt perfect.  I wasn't too hot, or too cold but I didn't sweat at all during the whole ride.  Not one drip.  It was that cold. I was amazed that I didn't sweat and it felt weird.  And I was really working out hard too.  As hard as I could.  My fat bike also felt amazing over snow and I felt like I was a kid again, fat bikes over snow are so fun.

This is a homemade map I made on the computer on where I went since I am so behind on technology(ask my older brother, he says that I live too much in the 90s, and it's true, I do).  I left E Town towards Black Hill and Kane Valley area.  I climbed up Kane Valley Road past the elk ranch and the snow pack on the road was perfect.  I made it up there like in 25 minutes from my house then turned around at the top and went back down.  I thought that was it for my ride and then until I got home, I decided to get my dog and go for a little longer.  This time we went up towards past the Lund Farm and went on that technical rocky road that connects to the Ephraim Canyon Road(shortcut to the canyon road from town).  The rocks were all covered with snow and it made the ride pleasant.  The fat bike went on that road great even though there were a couple tire tracks.  On the ride back down, I had a blast and I went fast.  So the ride was about 9.5 miles and the total elevation gain was 850 feet so it took me about an hour.  It was fun and I am ready for more.