Ethan Joseph and other Recent Events

Posted by joel on April 23, 2010

This post is grossly delayed so I appreciate everyone’s patience. Ethan is now nine weeks old and he has nearly doubled his weight! Everyone else in the family is doing well – Gavin, Abby, and Ethan get to stay home with the nanny which is quite nice as neighbors on both sides of the house have kids about the same age. Mom’s comment last night was, “There was five (bigger) kids in the tree and the little ones were watching from the ground.”

Outside the family scope, I recently accepted a position with Wausau Financial Systems to be a Network Administrator.

Seth and I recently pre-rode the Horribly Hilly Hundreds course which was, in fact, hilly. I recently received my bikeman clothing kit and am looking forward to the racing season this year. My schedule will consist of a mix of road and mountain races.

Training for the Mad-City marathon is progressing as well; this weekend will be my second of three twenty milers.

Thats about all for now. When I get the opportunity I need to post pix of young Ethan.

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USGP Planet Bike Cyclocross

Posted by joel on September 28, 2009

I spent yesterday watching my first CX race in Sun Prairie. I rode down with Matt and Scott, the latter which raced in the Cat 2&3′s. Since I am prepping for Underdown next weekend I rode to meet Seth at his house and ride back with him. Slow going out (30 miles, 17.5 average), fast coming in (20 miles, 20.5 average) – averages skewed by the 30 mph wind gusts! Without a camera, I decided to use my BB Curve to take some video footage, which turned out rather well, considering the low resolution (see below).

Here too is the [playlist] of all my USGP recordings.

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Door County Vacation 09/2009

Posted by joel on September 25, 2009

Here is a [photo gallery] of Beth and I in Door County. Additionally, there are pictures of Jackson Thomas Hynes from Day 2.

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Labor Day Weekend

Posted by joel on September 8, 2009

Over Labor Day weekend I spent a good amount of time in Madison. Seth and I had some brother bonding: Saturday morning we rode 57 miles including most of the Madison Iron-man  loop followed by going to Regent St. for some afternoon Badger festivities. Initially, we (Seth, Travis and I) had tickets but decided that we were having too much fun and sold the tickets. At which point we had more beer money which ended up providing good times at The Big 10, Red Shed, and pizza at Ians (MM!!).

We followed up the Badger festivities with a trip over to Milwaukee on Sunday morning to watch the Crew play the Giants of San Fransisco. After watching through the 8th we both decided it was best to boogie and listen to the remainder of the game in the car so we could get a second ride in. We got back to Madison right around 5pm which gave us enough time to get in a 37 miler which included the Observatory climb – good hangover medicine btw. Coincidentally, about the time we got back we heard on the radio that Prince hit a walk-off home run for the Crew to avoid the sweep with a 3-2 victory!

I ended up driving home after Seth and I grabbed supper at Noodles & Co. and rolled in to Wausau about 11:30. I slept in until roughly 6:30 when Gavin and Abby decided to get up – got both changed and fed. Once that was out of the way I proceeded to clean out the entire lower level of the house as we’re getting the hard-wood floors refinished Wednesday and Thursday this week. Thanks to Luke and Chad for helping clear out the big stuff!

I got work taken care of today for both myself and MIV – now I’m planning to get some R&R in Door County with Beth, Seth, and Brittney. Should be a peaceful and relaxing time. Thanks to Kenny and Darlene for watching the three kids in our absence!

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Abby Tries Corn on the Cob for the First Time

Posted by joel on August 29, 2009

Here is Abby trying her first ear of corn on the cob. MMM!

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