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These Legs Climbed Mt. Washington

After a late night arrival at Dolly Copp camground, and a short nights sleep, we were up early to hike Mt Washington via Lions Head trail, and hopefully beat the runners up the hill.  After a quick stop at DD in Gorham, we were fueled up and ready to go.  For the record, Chris got a turkey sausage breakfast sandy and a toasted almond iced coffee, Rachel got a blueberry muffin toasted with cream cheese, hash browns, a french vanilla iced coffee with sausage… haha what?
 On the way to Pinkham Notch, we saw a moose!
Goodmorning!!
 Using the camera buddy for the first time

 You must have learned this from Abby!  Sorry for the low quality pictures here…
Rachel amidst a particularly demanding section
Myself!
Rachel, with a view of Tuckerman’s behind.  Tuckerman’s trail was still closed due to unmelted snow 🙁

Rachel sucking it in to squeeze through a crevasse

Huh? WTF!!  You didn’t tell me we could have driven up here!!!

The runners taking their summit photo, woohoo!  Wonder what Casey is clutching in his pocket???
Wow, thats a really messed up joke… Wait, for real?!
You earned it!  And with a very impressive time 😉

XC Bike Trip Training

 
The race logo!
Scenery on the ride there.

Exploring Bennington College
Sunday morning @ our little tent site with the cheery little camper inside!! 🙂
Map of the day’s ride, including the ride down to Dunkin Donuts for food and coffee before we started the marathon course.  The numbers along the route denote the mileage at that point in our ride, in 5 mile increments.  The total distance that this shows obviously doesn’t take into account the detours we took, both on purpose and by accident.

 

Graph of the elevation for the whole ride… on either side of mile ~30, it should be a mirror image.

Highlights, in chronological order:
-Waking up next to a nice little pond in our cozy sleeping bags and tent 😉
-Cameron’s shorts
-Watching the start and then getting breakfast even though we didn’t have time for the Diner
-Leaving ~1hr after start  and enjoying good weather and scenery for the 1st half of the ride
-Cheering on Cameron @ about mile 20!
-Cheering on Julie (& Casey) @ about mile 21!
-Cheering on Charity @ about mile 24!
-Following Charity through the finish (~3hrs, 27 mins)
-Seeing a random lady collapse near the finish :-/
-Cameron finishing under 4hrs
-Julie (&Casey) finishing… hopefully Julie will qualify for Boston next time around
-Snacks at the finish line
-Rachel betting me a gatorade that she could run over a orange traffic cone without crashing.  I was happy to lose this bet and cough up the change @ Stewarts 🙂
-Riding in light rain
-Getting a little wet and dirty
-Getting soaked and covered in dirt from the road
-Rachel getting hangry and acting like a person from the Snicker’s commercials “You’re not you when you’re hungry” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixNh9L7G5M
-Riding up the big hills back to the start line
-Changing into dry clothes in the field where the car was parked
-Eating our leftovers from Chili’s the night before on our ride home

Found my keys!

Last night when I brought my bike into the hotel, I tucked my car keys in the waist band of my gym shorts and underwear.  Apparently I forgot to take them out of there once I got into my room, because I woke up this morning with a little soreness in that area.  I wasn’t sure what it was, so I reached down and sure enough, my keys were right there under me as I slept all night.  They left a nice imprint.

Eggs Benedict

Ingredients:

  • 4 egg yolks
  • 3 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 pinch ground white pepper
  • 1/8 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 8 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
  • 8 strips Canadian-style bacon
  • 4 English muffins, split
  • 2 tablespoons butter, softened

Directions:

  1. Hollandaise Sauce: Fill the bottom of a double boiler part-way with water and bring to a gentle simmer. In top boiler, whisk together egg yolks, lemon juice, white pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and 1 tablespoon water.
  2. Add the melted butter to egg yolk mixture. If hollandaise begins to get too thick, add a teaspoon or two of hot water. Continue whisking until all butter is incorporated. Whisk in salt, then remove from heat. Place a lid on pan to keep sauce warm.
  3. Poached Eggs: Fill a large saucepan with 3 inches of water. Bring water to a simmer/boil, then add vinegar. Carefully break eggs into water, and allow to cook for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes.
  4. While eggs are poaching, brown the bacon and toast the English muffins.
  5. Spread toasted muffins with softened butter, and top each one with a slice of bacon, followed by one poached egg. Place 2 muffins on each plate and drizzle with hollandaise sauce. Optional: sprinkle with chopped chives