Are You Living It?

(see the video below… and listen carefully for the guy at the end yelling, “Go Pooh-bear!!”)
Live Your Passion was one of the sponsors for the Tri, Girl, Tri all-womens sprint triathlon this past Saturday in Napa county, CA.  I would share some pictures of our booth, but it was so cold and windy that Joe and I couldn’t set it up (it would’ve lifted off and landed in the lake).  We couldn’t display the shirts either because they kept blowing away.  In fact, we couldn’t even take our coats off for fear of hypothermia… so we ended up just looking like a couple of creepy guys wearing black jackets and handing out stickers (”hey kid, want some candy?”).

We recently did a limited run of Live Your Passion headsweats visors that were so popular at the Pacific Grove Triathlon that mounted police in riot gear showed up to quell the angry mob.  Here’s a grainy photo of one taken by the security camera in my coat closet:

After yesterday’s morning meeting in the endless industrial park that is Hayward, California, I decided to take the afternoon off and hit the trails for some much-needed time in the woods.  Too many spreadsheets, too many sales pitches, too much of my own voice.  Time for some silence and sweat.

David Faustina spent some time with us after he finished his Olympic Distance Triathlon at Pacific Grove (while wearing his Live Your Passion visor… yeah!!).  He told us how the race went and talked about his efforts with Team in Training.  Check it out.  Way to go, David!

The Triathon at Pacific Grove, CA was a major success for all involved.  Once again we had a superb time watching the competitors push themselves and ACHIEVE, and of course it was also quite gratifying to see people respond so positively to our message of LIVE YOUR PASSION.  The course involves an infamous swim start called “the kelp crawl” … there wasn’t much the racers could do but dive right in and plow through it as fast as possible. Watch this short video of the men’s 25-29 start to and you can see how it earned its name:

Live Your Passion has lost a dear friend in Ryan Triplett.  Please read a meaningful tribute to him written by his good friend Cam:

http://www.ece.utah.edu/~ccharles/personal/RyanTriplett/

**In honor of Ryan and Jen Triplett, the Are You Living It blog will not publish new posts until this weekend.**

We had a great time down in San Jose on Saturday night watching Jen Triplett win her points race (I should restate that:  we watched Jen dominate her points race, which involved lapping the field and looking like she was going to pedal hard enough to burn her tires off).  Jen grabbed a couple Nationals titles during the week of racing and it was fun to see her take a Best All-Around rider award too.  Below are a couple pics (sorry, I’m bad at “action” photography).  Congrats, Jen!

Just a couple quick picks from a ride in the Tennessee Valley Road area in the Marin Headlands:

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View down to Muir Beach.

View to southwest.

Breather after the climb up the Coastal Trail to Coyote Ridge.

Nice little mtb ride in China Camp State Park today.  It’s about a 45 minute drive up 101 from where I live in San Fran…  several miles past the Marin Headlands, just northeast of San Rafael:

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Thirteen miles of very easy singletrack, a little too easy actually (finally feeling better after a week of thinking I was getting sick, and really wanted to sweat it all out), but it was a phenomenal day with relatively little traffic on the trails so I have no complaints.