Summer's Done

Where does all  that time go?  It's been quite a while since my last post.  Let's try to start it up again.  Here we go.

I had quite a few injuries which prevented me from the usual running and biking this year.  It's been near 8 months since running and biking actively.  Wiped out by a Racoon, of all things, early this year while riding to work (hit the darn thing speeding just over 50k) went flying andbroke my shoulder bone and chronic back injury and a host of other ailments  will do it.  One surprise was turning to hiking and the Grouse Grind specifically.  I decided to have a goal of 10 hikes up the Grouse Grind.  Yesterday, I achieved 30,   by the last day of summer. Over 80k ascent this summer.  One thing that surprised me is how addictive the Grind was.  60 mins of hard climbing produced a lot of endorphines, and its very addictive.