Sunday, September 30, 2012

Learn something new every day!

And all this time I've been referring to my whiffletree as a seat-post, wow I feel like an idiot. Luckily my new light came with these handy instructions to straighten me out on use of the magic strap.


That time of year


Big skies again!


Saturday, September 29, 2012

Capital City Cross 2012

First race of the year for me - way behind on putting content on here, will add more soon. Corrine got some videos that I'll post as well once I get them uploaded to Youtube (since Google Video blows). 






















Sunday, September 23, 2012

Capital Pursuit

On the road bright and early today, Corrine ran the Capital Pursuit in down-town Des Moines. As if to confirm that it's really Fall now, the temperature was 34°F when we left the house. The lowest we saw was 32°F in Carlisle.




The low overnight temps created quite a bit of fog around bodies of water. I couldn't get a very good picture but there was extremely dense fog hanging over the Des Moines River almost like a floating snake.



Clear skies met the sunrise and promised warmth soon.



Lots of people waiting to stage. This is an extremely small event considering that it's 30years old. I think it had 500-600 participants last year.





Race start! I'm not sure what happened, but the gun went off 5-10 seconds after everyone started running - odd.



Corrine crushing it on the way into the timing gate. 






Ten miles later - finish!


Friday, September 14, 2012

Sunday, September 9, 2012

River People


We went for a walk to check out the Des Moines river since it looked pretty low. 
This is the north tail-water.


This is about how far across the river one can walk without getting wet - probably roughly 3/4 of the way.






We found this worm in the parking-lot. It was traveling about 50ft to find some fresh grass.