Family – Moto – Etc
Just creating a quick post here for anyone interested in the Forest Island Trails just over the UP border in Michigan. I don’t have detailed images, but I’ve got an image, and some gpx file….so that should do the trick if someone wants to eye it up. Enjoy
Forest Island GPX (Right Click and Save As)
I apologize for the tracks not being completely complete. I’ll work on sorting that out the next time I’m up there. Enjoy!
Andrew
My brains been filled as of late with rehabing the house I just bought and my ever fast approaching wedding (6 month engagement goes by mighty quick ). I felt a little ride tonight was in order to clear my head. Had dinner with my family for my grandpa’s 70something birthday and off I went. Not much, but enough to clear the head a bit, and a definite relief from the more intense off-roading I’ve been doing as of late. All I got to show though is really 1 pic. Just off Rte 50 in Lake Geneva, WI. My little getaway spot. Sitting on the benches feeling the lake breeze roll in is good therapy.
Andrew
Ok, so Kim and I have around 92 days before the wedding to go. I think I’ve got a list a mile long to get done. I should really buckle down as the next 3 months are going to be more hectic than I can shake a stick at (does that make sense?). Anyways, here’s a quick rundown of my “need to get it freaking done” list:
Groomsman Tux Fitted.
Pick out shoes for tuxes.
Finalize song choice with Jay.
Finalize song choices for Church and Reception type stuffs.
Print out directions for invitations
Order Cabo Plane tickets – $$ lol
Talk to Jay* about a time to get together to chat.
Projector for some sort of slideshow thing
Send Gordo Moneys$$
Meet with CLCBC wedding coordinator March 11th
Finalize wedding photography stuffs between Josh\Jay\Mike\anyone else?
Get pictures taken of Kim & I for picture frames @ reception hall
Cut out vinyl for Vases: Love Joy Faith Peace (some sort of block lettering)
Wedding bands (buy some titanium for me? i’m cheap and can machine it 🙂 haha)
I’ll do a nice cool strike-through on these items as I knock them off the list. On the upside I have a visual reminder that I need to get this crap done ASAP.
That’s it for now,
Andrew
*Jay Fast. Added for clarification purposes. Carry On.
As of late I have been pondering my Hare Scramble race last May. I thought back to how poorly I did. Only being able to complete 45\90 minutes of the race. Pathetic if you ask me. Sure I was on a heavier machine than I should have been. Sure I hadn’t paced myself properly. Sure I had never raced something like that before. But should any of that really have mattered? NO. I can’t blame machine. I blame only man, and that man is myself. At the time only 23 and while not overweight, I sure as heck wasn’t (am not) in proper physical and mental shape.
Now what does that have to do with anything? Scoop is this. On top of competing in Trials events, I know that I can win in Hare Scrambles. There are a few “local” races for me to compete in before my Trials season gets underway, but I’ve needed motivation and more-so a reason to get into this. Reason: I need to be in better shape. No two ways about it.
So where does this put me now? Well for one I’ve hated what I’ve done to my BMW bike. Sure it rides great, but I’ve come to a realization of what I should have done (hindsight 20/20). I’m left at a place where I want-need a proper competition off-road motorcycle. Problem is that that doesn’t solve my non race winning streak. A better, more fitting machine will most definitely make things easier on myself, but that’s not the entire equation.
I need to address the other aspects of the race. Most of which drop down to my past and present physical condition. Now 24, I have realized I am greatly out of shape. It was depressing seeing for myself that my laptimes in the race were better than most other competitors, but due to my poor mental condition and my even worse physical condition, I couldn’t make it the full race. Down right depressing. I know I am a better rider. That didn’t matter. Slower riders ended up in better positions than me not because they were better riders, but because they could make it. I couldn’t.
And that right there is why I sucked it up and joined a gym with Kim. I finally have another form of motivation. I have other motivation, but this one has more or less pushed me over the edge. I will win at least A (1) race. I will NOT feel like total crap after. I realize that this is going to be more or less a serious change in pace of life. All for the better. So now I sit here with blisters and cuts on my feet after running more than I have in my entire life; legs not wanting to move, and arms that when attempting to bend straight, shoot pain through them like I’m being stabbed. No doubt in my mind, it WILL be worth it.
Andrew
I should be ashamed I suppose, but I have failed to make mention of the single greatest thing that had happened in 2009. On said date, I dropped the ultimate question, and proposed to (my now fiancé) Kimberly. November Friday the 13th, 2009 was the date it all went down. This has led Kim and I down a path of intense high speed planning to make a May 29th, 2010 wedding date. One might say that is too little time for an engagement. To which Kim and I give a hearty laugh. Tough, but definitely doable.
I realize this is not the greatest of updates, but hey, we’re chugging along here and actually making progress on our so called planning. We’ve got invitations (as of last night haha). Yes, it’s all actually going along smoothly. I’ll update as I get battier as the wedding date approaches.
Andrew