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Beware of lime disease!
Double fisting coffee up on seven to start the day, yeah its one of those!

Junket Planning Begins

Today I have officially begun planning for the 2009 Mototaxi Junket . This has been going on behind the scenes for a bit, but I'm finally starting to commit to dates and at least pre/post rally routes. The Basic Plan Oct 21: Leave Dulles mid-day, arrive in Lima at 8PM. Oct 22: Explore the Centro Historico de Lima, break the rust off my Spanish. Oct 23: Take the crazy train from Lima (7AM) to Huancayo (7PM). I am expecting to meet up with some other crazy rally people en-route as I believe at least some others will be taking the same train. Oct 24: Mototaxi familiarization day in Huancayo and initial route planning. Launch party that night at which I will try to avoid getting trashed. Oct 25: Any last minute preparation, official send-off at noon! ... many days of adventure ... Nov 7*: Arrive in Asuncion, Paraguay. Return moto taxi and attend finish celebration party. Nov 8*: Hang out in Asuncion for the day, then leave for the long long trip home. From Asuncion to Sao Paulo to...
sara's birthday party is kinda fun, pretty cool spot out here
I have been in my condo for over seven months and I finally got my mail key!
More craziness at Rachel and Jacky's
How to make a woman in less than an hour? hrm
Playing with silk ropes before training at Primal
I am totally riding Cat's scooter through Dupont
Almost done moving Cat!
Friday night at primal fitness
Happy new place to Cat!
Grill and chill in full swing!
Lol @ flooding all over as I walk home

Parkour: Tic tac to Kong (how to clear steps)

Run at a set of steps. Jump up, kick off a wall, leap higher, and land near the top. Lean forward and throw your arms down on the top step and propel your body upwards, clearing the steps in a full run. This is what I learned to do today... Definitely a welcome break from all the rolling and rolling and rolling we did last week (all good stuff, but refining technique rather than learning new techniques, so no blogging). I showed up to class a little bent - I had eaten a couple apples today and let's just say they didn't sit so well. During the warmup and most of the class I had pretty bad cramps, deinitely unpleasant. Warmup x3: 1 lap (4 blocks) 10 pop ups onto a 2+ foot high box 20s handstand 3 wall runs ea leg In a crazy way I would normally think that is an easy warmup (and it is now), but my cramps made this hell. Ugh. After we were done, Rob and Salil led the class out to a library near the park, which had two sets of wide steps with walls on each side. The first set ...
Trappistes rochefort 10 for the win
I'm on a boat!
Sun good
Yay found the blown fuse trying to jump again
Ripped off two callouses training on rails today even though I had been taking good care of them. Ow