Want to work your way up to doing 100 push-ups? Visit the 100 Push Up's Challenge website. They have initial testing standards and 6 week programs that can help you reach your goals in 6 weeks.


The site also has six week programs for 25 sit-ups, 205 squats and another one for 25 pull-ups on the way.


Visit the site and complete the challenge.

I made a strap for my cross-country skis so I could bike to the ski trails near my house. It works very well and stays in place. The bottom of the skis stay in the air away from the bike when I'm bent over holding the handle bars and riding.

Great video from the Access Fund of Erik climbing a 5.11b in Eldorado Canyon.

A New Zealand company has hired drillers to dig out bottles of whiskey that were left behind in a cache under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.

LANSINGBURGH -- High school senior Matthew Whalen is the kind of student any parent would want.

"Joe Mallahan admits to 43rd district Dems he drives six blocks to work, loses endorsement."


That's an actual headline in the Seattle Times News Paper today. I don't care if its a Prius. It's six blocks! Seriously the average person can easily ride a bike at 12mph. That's actually pretty slow. You'll likely have roller bladers passing you up.

For those of you who don't know I had a bit of a spill on my bicycle that landed me in the back of an ambulance and kept me at the hospital for about 12 - 14 hours.

This is pretty cool! It's a bike tree bike rack. You put your bike on the hook and it pulls it high in the air out of reach of thieves. The Bike Tree also runs on solar power and has an automatic security camera. :)

Critical Mass is pretty much riding in every major metropolitan area now. Here in Minneapolis I've seen as many as 500 cyclists in a single mass rolling out of Loring Park on the west side of the downtown area. It happens on the last Friday of the month in most places and starts right at the height of rush hour traffic.

From The Strib- A Minnesota teen in a hiking party of eight died from dehydration after the group ran out of water.

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