Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Massive REI.com Summer Sale!

I know that Matt Smart posted about this sale the other day but as I was browsing the sale for the first time this morning it felt worthy of a second mention. The sale is offering up to 30% off some really nice items including brands like North Face and Patagonia.

Happy summer shopping!

Andy B
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Monday, June 29th, 2009

Rafting down the Poudre River with A Wanderlust Adventure

This was probably one of the funnest weekends our family has had since moving to Colorado. On Thursday Grandma Brazelton came to town to hang out for the weekend. We took Katie to yoga the night she arrived, she didn’t like it that much, then Chipotle for dinner, she liked that.

Friday we headed up to my buddy Craig’s condo up in Winter Park. While we were up there we celebrated Carter’s 3rd birthday (lot’s of pictures at the link). Amazing Friday/Saturday in Winter Park with the family. Both days I was able to get out for a road ride. Riding at 9,500 feet will get ya.

Sunday morning Julie and I headed out early to white water raft on the Poudre River while grandma watched the kids. Neither of us had been rafting for years, Julie was nervous, I was excited. We went with a company called A Wanderlust Adventure and our guides name was Randy. As you can see from the photo’s and video’s below the day was an absolute blast. The water level on the Poudre was at an all time high from all the rain we received this season. High water meant fast water and our guide Randy was loving it on the category 1 – 4 rapids. I sat in the front of the boat and was given the roll of calling out the cadence for the stroke. 1, 2, 3…1, 2, 3. Julie sat behind me pretty much getting a free ride.

3 hours later we had survived and I don’t think Julie and I ever stopped smiling. I would highly RECOMMEND A Wanderlust Adventure and look forward to taking our friends and family on trips with them in the future.

This video was one of the category 4 rapids.

The evening ended with steaks with our friends the Gilmours at their house. Perfect end to a super fun weekend.

Happy birthday Carter! Daddy loves you so much!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Our family adventure to Estes Park

A few Sunday’s ago our family went hiking up in Estes Park at Lily Lake. Aunt Alison was in town making it even more fun.

Andy B
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Are you kidding me? Ken Block is nuts!!!!

My buddy Phil Hamer from DC Shoes Films send me this link earlier today.

Enjoy,

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The Outdoor Parent Helps Parents Get Outside With Their Kids

I love this concept and blog post over at The Cleanest Line.

“Today, in conjunction with the Dirtbag Diaries, The Outdoor Parent begins in earnest. Our goal: provide stoke. Stoke to get you out of bed before dawn for a long run through the woods or a solid surf session at a favorite break. Stoke to rally the kids out for a weekend of camping beneath dark, starry skies or just around the corner to edges of your local park. We celebrate skinned knees, hand me down jeans…”

Click here to read the rest of the post.

Click here to listen to the story by Fitz Cahall.

HT The Cleanest Line and The Dirtbag Diaries for the story.

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Mark Allen’s 6 Essential Tips for Your Best Race Ever

Mark Allen’s 6 Essential Tips for Your Best Race Ever
By Mark Allen (Triathlete magazine)
HT Active.com for the article

Have you ever had this experience? Your training went well, you set PRs in every key workout and you even worked through your list of to-do items in record time—but you ended up having a terrible race anyway. Or maybe you’re familiar with this scenario: you’ve beaten your training partner in just about every workout, but then he or she served you notice on race day by easily pulling away on the first hill on the bike course. The list goes on.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Mark Allen is the man!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Short track racing at New Belgium

I forgot to mention in my wrap-up from Sunday that 2 weeks back I hit up the last race in the New Belgium Short Track Series. My category did 4 laps, each lap was around 5.5 minutes long, the videos below show the course well. My average heart rate over the 25 minutes was 186, for me, that’s going hard. Ended up getting 4th place out of 22 dudes. As you can see I’m sportin my new Velo-One Team Kit. It’s a fun social team and I really enjoy the other riders. I’ll always miss my Rock N Road team though. We heard rumor that they have a cross series in the fall, that would rock!