Long... weekend xtraining??

No biking for me this weekend as I needed to earn some points with the wife!! instead, we did a nice hike on Saturday (Jumping Pound Ridge) with a couple of friends and Nick in my backpack !! holi!! 25pounds for 1:13 hour going up and 1:00 hour coming down !! that is a hell of a work out :-))) I wish we weren't feeding him that well over the last year and a half ::---)) ///
Well, it was totally worthy because the view is one of the most amazing views of the Rockies::>>
Maria was very happy to get up there and we spent some time seating and relaxing before we started to hike down.  This has to be an awesome work out (judging it by how my legs and back were feeling the day after // 
After that we stopped at Dawson Creek and did cooked hot dogs yummmm !!
On Sunday we decided to go out and cut some firewood for the remaining of the camping season./ Went out to Bragg Creek area and after the first log down I couldn't get the chain saw started again... my shoulder today is soar !!! I was so mad that couldn't even speak in the way back.../ So anyway, I woke up on Monday determined to fix that chainsaw and go back for more wood. I google it and found a few tricks that worked!!  :-) So we went back again to Bragg Creek to finish with that business ::>>
After getting lots of firewood in the back of the Land Cruiser we stopped for more walking by the river in Bragg and had some snacks in the way back.

Just to finish the day after getting home we bragged something to eat and headed out to the lake across the street where we spent the rest of the afternoon cooling down. It was pretty much what we did for the weekend>>>>>
This week is MTB to work week !@! yeah, what I do is basically take as much single track as possible in my way to and from work. There are some nice single tracks (Bowmont and Sideshow Bob) that will give you quite a good work out before getting in to work.






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