While working on my bike tonight in my home office in the basement, I saw something scurry by my feet. I thought it was a lizard (we’ve had a few of those which we’ve caught and released) so I went upstairs to get Amy and the lizard box (a big, clear Tupperware container). When I came back down and shined the flashlight under my server rack (yes, I’m a hardcore geek), I saw two little beedy eyes staring back at me.

To make a long story short, we waited him out and he quickly ran under a bookcase where I was able to trap him. The rest can be seen in this video. Yes, I’m a big baby and could not bear the thought of killing him or putting out one of those inhumane traps. Luckily he was saved. The whole escapade lasted about two hours.

After this video was shot, we took him out front and released him. He scurried away and will hopefully be safe.

Since I’ve been putting everything in my head up on twitter recently, I haven’t had any good content for RCS. In the meantime, here are some cats on a treadmill. If I could only teach Gracie how to do this:

Dad and Nancy flew in from Ohio to visit with us for two days and we drove up to the summit of Pike’s Peak immediately to avoid the storms that had been forecasted for tomorrow. The above video was shot while looking east.

The Flickr Gallery can be seen HERE.

The last time I climbed North Cheyenne Canyon, I weighed at 228.5 pounds.  Today, I weighed 188.5 pounds and climbed it with Josh, one of the most gifted climbers I’ve ever ridden with.  We had planned to ride from Broadmoor down to Florence but the wind was steady at 15 mph from the south (read: HEADWIND) and gusting in the mid 40’s.  It was kinda chilly too (around 50) so we decided to ride close to Cheyenne Mountain for protection and do the hills.

When I first climbed this bad boy, I clocked a tad over 37 minutes (yikes!).  Today’s time:  23 minutes, 48 seconds (clocked from the gate).  Not great, but getting closer to my ultimate goal of sub 20.  I’ve previously written about the climb up N. Cheyenne Canyon HERE and HERE.

Here’s the ride profile (guess which spike is N. Cheyenne…):

Ride GPS data