Home Alone

Well, the family has left me alone in Park City for a couple of weeks. Colleen and the kids headed to New York for a couple of weeks. Dekker has an appointment with a specialist in Manhattan and then they will head up to Long Island to play on the beach with their cousins in Southampton.
I'm hoping Colleen will send some photos to keep me and you up to date on what they are up to. Colleen's uncle Cub is a member at Shinnecock. It would be great to get some photos of Dekker polishing up his golf skills at one of the classic golf courses.
So unfortunately most of the posts for the next couple of weeks will be mostly of what Braeden and I are up to. I'm getting ready for the Tour of Utah (and working). It starts in 2.5 weeks. I've got the weight down and just hope to keep the power up. I raced on Saturday and felt below average, but finished 7th. Three of the local pros schooled us. I was able to stay with them for the first 50 miles or so. But today, I rode 100+ miles (5+ hours)and felt great. The funny thing about endurance sports is you can feel absolutely horrible one day and the very next day feel great. I refer to the bad day as "blowing the carbons out." The next day the engine is in great shape. After the big ride, I ate a big burrito, took Braeden for a swim in Deer Valley and got in 18 holes of golf. I'd call that a full day. Plus the Tigers won (and avoided a sweep), so that was good. Funny story about the swim. There are a ton of trout in the lake. Braeden was swimming back to the shore and a fish jumped right next to his head while he was swimming. I actually saw the airborne fish. It scared the shit out of Braeden and he booked it out of the water and acted like the fish was holding on to his tail. It was probably one of those "you had to be there" stories, but funny as hell. Speaking of fishing, Utah fisherman got a huge victory this week. The Utah Supreme Court voted that Utah river bottoms are public domain. The West is big on property rights and up until then you could float on the water, but the river bed was part of private property. With the ruling, the river bottom is now public property and is now fishable. The river banks are private property (when not on totally public lands), but you can access the rivers from public lands. Seems small and insignificant, but it just double the amount of fishing in Utah. And now, I can fish the river that runs through the golf course if I want. The East Canyon Creek behind our house runs almost 100% through private land. So that opens up a whole river in my backyard to fish. Now I just have to learn how to catch a fish. Still working on that...