Joshua Tree Weekend

Just a short video from some of the craziness that went down this weekend.

WTF Vans

Ok no joke this was on Thalia Surf shop website today. Take a look at what they are selling. Look at the arrow. The photo is funny but the rest ummmmm yeah not cool. I say WTF Vans because they own this shop in Laguna.

My Legs Hurt

Ok I think I over did it this weekend. Let us start out with Friday night. Headed over to Disneyland after work with some friends for a fun filled 7 hour night of rides and fun.

(out of the 20 people in this photo 11 are with me)

Saturday started with surfing down at cottons. I surfed for about an hour then headed home. After that I come to the part that really killed my legs. I went for a 19 mile bike ride. I road from the Newport Back Bay to my work in Irvine. It was 10 miles of mostly up hill to get to my work. I use the Nike GPS app on my phone to track my trip. As you can see from the photo below, I did the first 10 mile leg to my work in just over 46 mins. With and average mile time of 5 mins

And if you look at this photo taken at the end of my ride you can see that my average mile time is about 4 mins. Can you say downhill. The whole trip took me 1 hour and 25 mins.

And here is a photo of my route and pace. The top of the loop is the going part. The little red lines show hills and or stop lights I hit. If you notice the long orange part at the end of my ride thats is because I decided to stay on the bike path and not the street so I had to climb out of the back bay.

Now you may be saying to yourself that is not a long bike ride. But let me give you a few facts.

Fact one: I have not rode a bike for almost 13 years.

Fact two: My bike has only one speed.

Fact three: It was 82 degrees this day. (But I liked that part of if got a little tan)

After I got home and took a shower and a nap. After I woke up I went to a hockey game. It was a play off game for my friends team, they WON!!!

All in all it was a good weekend. With lots of calories be burned.

BUT MY LEGS REALLY HURT :(

It's A Sledgehammer

So last night I wet out and got myself a little treat.

A NEW BIKE!

Say hello to Van-GO

Yep it's now my time to join great bike riders like Albert Einstein.

And David Beckham

(by the way this bike is the same one I have just a different color)

And Kevin Bacon

I am going to start riding to work 3 days a week or try to I should say. I just went for a 10 mile ride tonight. Um yeah it kicked my ass. I should maybe start out lighter. But oh well too late now. It is a 9 mile ride to work mostly flat but a few hills. Last time I rode this much it was when I was in Boy Scouts, I did a 100 mile ride. Not sure if I will go that far again but who knows.

New Year's Resolutions

So I told my friend the other day that my New Years Resolution this year was not to give up soda or eat better or go to the gym. But instead it was to SURF more! I want to get 150 days in this year. That means that I have to surf about 3 times a week or go on a 2 week surf trip then I have to only surf 2 days a week. Now here is the funny part everyone I tells this to laughs at me and says thats not a resolution. But I say to them you try to do it. like today the water is 53 degrees and the surf is only 1 foot that means you cant surf. And its going to be like that all week so now I have to surf more later this year. But here is the funny part of this post. Today on surfline was this post.

So I ask you is my resolution real or not.

By the way I already have 4 days in this year. Only a 146 more to go.

Just Follow Your Nose

Back in the day you use to have to hope for surf, but now with charts and forecasting you know of a good swell coming days in advance. So all you have to do is pick the best place its going to hit. So on Monday I got wind of this new big swell coming in today.

So I took a vacation day today and did a little swell hunting. I knew it was going to hit in San Diego best so I headed down at 5 am to look around. But something in the back of my mind kept telling me go to Wind "N" Sea.

Now I have not been to Wind "N" Sea for almost 10 years. But I followed my nose and it took me to perfect 7 foot surf. Wind "N" Sea is a reef break that is super fast and doesn't break that much. I almost forgot where it was but with cross streets like this it's kind of hard to.

I surfed for about 3 hours then the tide came up and it got really fat.

So I called it a day and took some photos. ENJOY

First Post Of The New Year

I want my first post of 2011 to be a funny one so here you go.