Well im shocked, just realised one of the guys i used to go to school with rode the Nike 6.0 tunnel! And then saw another friend of mine on facebook showing off his new video of the Kona rider, Peran Clemence!

Nice little video even though it is short

Ostatnio z bratem cierpimy na niedosyt gór i łażenia po nich dwa tygodnie temu były tatry. Teraz błatnia ciekawe co będzie za tydzień. Wracając do tatr żadne filmy zdjęcia nie pokażą piękna tych gór jak się tam nie było.

Poczuć się jak by się samego Boga za stopy złapało – bezcenne. :):)

It was my second visit to Broga Hill this time, my first visit is HERE. So i named this series Broga Hill Revisited. With my newly upgrade gear i went there for a shoot early in the morning. 430am departed from my place and reached there around 6am. The day was still very dark, again torchlight was the only equipment we can rely on in order to climb up the hill. The journey last time took around 45mins before reaching the hill top, this time the journey was only about 30mins. Broga hill, which is getting popular nowadays has attracted many climber and tourist for a hike. It is an easy to hike hill, short distance, interesting view and journey, windy place, with sun rise to see, with great view to enjoy and with fresh air to release stress. Lets enjoy some the pictures i took there…

The Early Sun Rise

Broga View

The Broga Path Way

The Broga Steps

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ACTUALIZAÇÃO: Ricardo Marinheiro é prata em Camberra. O jovem atleta Junior alcançou um resultado histórico do ciclismo português ao conquistar esta medalha no campeonato do mundo de cross-country (XCO), na disciplina olímpica de BTT.

LER MAIS…

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Pois é, a Selecção Nacional Portuguesa vai estar presente no Campeonato do Mundo na vertente XCO a realizar-se em Camberra, Austrália. São 3 atletas juniores e 1 Sub-23 que vão tentar fazer história o serviço da nossa bandeira!!!! A prova deocrre entre os dias 1 e 6 de Setembro.

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Júniores: David Rodrigues (Clube Montanhismo da Guarda), Mário Costa (MSS-Póvoa de Varzim-Maxibikes), Ricardo Marinheiro (Neves/Vauner/Ramalde),

Sub-23: Tiago Ferreira (Blackjack-Castrovães).

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We went on the “holy trail” walk today.  At the other end of the trail, there was second-hand record store.

So we bought a couple of record and spent the whole afternoon listening to old music.

Such simple pleasure. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, if everthing in life can be this simple?

hai there!!! It has been quite some time no post is posted in my blog. Recently i went Broga Hill at Semenyih for a hill hiking trip. We went in a group of 7. Super early in the morning, around 430am we woke up and prepared for the hiking trip! We arrived there around 6 something and we started our hiking. Place was totally darkness. Fortunately we were assisted by the LED torch we brought!

It was not a too extreme kind of hiking but a moderate ones. We spent around 1hour hiking up to the hill for a morning view of Broga Hill. We managed to get up there and waited for sunrise! Although the sunrise was not that nice. I still managed to get some nice pictures of the group and nice panaroma of the Broga Hill. Here are they!

Panaroma of Broga Hill

Panaroma of Broga Hill

Group photo of us

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The cloud line cups it perfectly, that body, echoing the tree line and hovering as if there were no wind. A perfect, perfect band of nothing between them, nothing, nothing, nothing, but charged. Nothing, but full of something. Nothing, but ripe for the flight of birds and the waft of jet fuel and the disappearance of time. The cloud formed over the flatiron mini-mountain in just such a way as to send a shiver down my spine and heat to my cheek. It was perfect and nothing. And in it was everything.

And I looked back only a few seconds later and it was gone, the shape of it all. The shape of it all has gone soft. The shape of it all has let the wind carry it away. The shape of it all has drifted down the range to other bodies of rock and pine and the air between them is now uneven, mussed by the wind.

It was there. It was there so perfectly for so long. So long. So long, those few seconds. Fleeting but hovering. The clouds tell a simple truth. A pointy, unnerving truth. A beautiful truth.

Image by Tom Spencer.

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I decided to revisit a previous entry using an infrared technique I’ve been trying out. It seems to work pretty well here. What do you think?

It was already immensely cold and so we had no choice but to get into our sleeping bags at 6pm. Ice was starting to form everywhere and we spent a long, long night at -5C. I’ve never wanted the sun to come back up so much!

Hier soir s’est tenue à Beverly Hills la 66ème cérémonie de remise des Golden Globes, préléminaire à celle des Oscars qui aura lieu le 22 février.

Les 2 faits marquants de la soirée furent la consécration post mortem d’Heath Ledger pour le prix du meilleur second rôle grâce à son rôle de Joker dans le film : “The Dark Knight : le chevalier noir”. (Rôle pour lequel il avait déjà été consacré et déjà à titre posthume meilleur acteur de l’année en Australie) L’acteur du Secret de Brokeback Mountain et des Frères Grimm avait été retrouvé mort il y a un an le 22 janvier 2008, alors qu’il était en plein tournage avec Terry Gilliam.

Autre moment de nostalgie lors de la cérémonie, Kate Winslet couronnée non seulement du Golden Globe de la meilleure actrice mais aussi du meilleur second rôle, a remercié son époux Sam Mendes, le réalisateur du film “Les Noces rebelles” pour lequel elle a reçu le prix de meilleure actrice mais aussi Leonardo di Caprio lui déclarant “Je t’aime de tout mon coeur”.

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- Meilleur film dramatique : “Slumdog Millionaire.”
- Meilleure comédie musicale ou comédie : “Vicky Christina Barcelona.”
- Meilleur acteur de film dramatique : Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.”
- Meilleur acteur de comédie : Colin Farrell “In Bruges”.
- Meilleure actrice : Kate Winslet, “Les Noces rebelles.”
- Metteur en scène : David Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
- Meilleure actrice de comédie musicale : Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky”.
- Meilleur acteur pour un second rôle : Heath Ledger, décédé il y a un an, “The Dark Knight : le chevalier noir”.
- Meilleure actrice pour un second rôle : Kate Winslet, “Le Liseur”.
- Meilleur film étranger : “Valse avec Bashir.”
- Meilleur scénario : Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
- Meilleur film d’animation : “Wall-E”, des studios Pixar.
- Meilleure musique originale : A.R Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
- Meilleure chanson : “The Wrestler” (écrite et interprétée par Bruce Springsteen), chanson-titre du film “The Wrestler.”
- Prix Cecil B. DeMille : Steven Spielberg. AP

I have been living off an energy high since being in Italy. Each day I have woken up and felt truly happy…to the point that I smile all day long, have a skip in my walk, and have had numerous people ask me if I am always this happy, for which I reply, of course not (to make them feel better)–but truthfully, I have been. Why? Because each day I have been living a balanced goal oriented life. I have an accomplished feel to my day as I simultaneously work towards achieving many of my personal goals.

But the past 3 days however, I have been on the verge of kicking something (really hard and with all my strength), my insides have felt explosive–like a shaken up soda pop, cap still on and just waiting to explode. I hate being filled with negative feelings or anxiety as it directly affects the rest of my mind and body–I start sleeping less, eating bad foods, stop working out, and become mentally and physically lazy. It’s a recipe for disaster and if which, is not stopped soon, can easily become routine. And, seriously, who likes to be around a pessimistic, lazy, moody person? Not me…and even I then start to despise myself…  

The catalyst to this horrible cycle of emotions has been my over indulgence in one particular goal–trying to complete a 50,000 word manuscript by the end of November. I think this goal is entirely doable, and had I spent the first few weeks organizing my time a little better would have been manageable, but as I near the end of the month with a current word count of around 30,000 I began to freak out–”I’m not going to achieve my goal,” my insides wail. And because my insides are little fighters they say, “come on now…we’re not going to give up! Let’s fight…”–and so I did: staying up routinely until 4…3…2a.m. this past week, locking myself in my room and sitting in a chair with my computer on my lap for 9…10…11+ hours at a time, drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee and tea and dedicating all my non-working hours to writing (meaning no running, reading, practicing Italian etc).

Three days ago, my body started hating me and my mind felt like a caffeinated cloud–buzzing awake but airy, with nothing really there.  Finally, I did what I knew would make me feel better–I went for a run. Within the first four strides, my body said to me, “THHHHHAANNNKKKYYYOOOOUUUU” (it doesn’t like being caged up) and my mind slowly began to relax, the fuzzy cloud that hung over my thoughts began sharpening into focus like the lens in a binocular. “Yay!” I said to myself, “I can actually think again.” So I ran…and ran…and ran…and probably could have rivalled Forest Gump in distance had I not had to work that day. It felt good to feel good; it felt good to be back to my normal self.

So, I have decided to not bind myself in trying to complete the word count at all costs–not to say I have given up writing towards this goal, but I am not going to starve myself from sleep, exercise and a little fun. My long term goal is to write a novel. I may not achieve my short term goal of writing a 50k novel within a month, but hey–not every goal I set am I going to accomplish, and that is okay. As long as I am taking a step in the right direction, I am at least moving somewhere than standing idle. This short term goal pushed me to start writing and to stop doubting my abilities or fears of failure. So, even though I may not get to 50,000 words by November 30th, my novel is in motion–30,000 words and counting!

Goals are like climbing a mountain. You see the top, and you want to be standing there, smiling, hands stretched out wide to your sides in self congratulation as you pear down below at your achievement. Sometimes it will be an easy climb–hey you’re in shape, you have the right equipment and your body can manage it. Other times, it will be a struggle–the weather brings snow flurries, equipment breaks or your body just says to you, “I can’t go on.” As any true climber knows–a mountain will always be there, you however, if you don’t listen to the signs of your body, may not.

So, my challenge to you is to access your goals and the state of your mind and body. Everyone will have different capacities and breaking points of how much they can handle. But just remember, your mind and body is your core, keep it alert and healthy and don’t overindulge if is telling you not to–it’s a smart little vessel, so listen to it:-)

While Heather was out breaking her goal of 2000 miles, I was out breaking other things.  I had my first real crash today, and while I’ve crashed dozens of times on my mt. bike, this was a little different.  When I’m mt. biking, I almost expect to crash–pretty much at any time.  I take a lot more chances and I’m a little loose on the trail, especially when descending.  But I didn’t see this coming, and I really should have.

I was out on a short ride this morning–sneaking in a 45 minute jaunt before work (I’m on day 7 in a row at work, so I needed to make time to ride).  I wanted to do at least 10 miles. Hey, something is better than nothing.  I finished my loop and had 9.5 miles in.  Because I’m ridiculous, I decided to spin around my neighborhood that extra .5 mile just to even it off.  I was about 4 houses away from my own when I banked a sharp left to turn up a side street.  The street was an immediate hill, so I took the corner with some speed.  What I didn’t account for, and feel pretty silly for not seeing this, was all those wet leaves in the corner of the road I was using to turn.  My bike cut out from under me and before I knew it, I was down.

My helmet did it’s job as I did knock my head good enough to make me a bit disoriented after the fall.  I have an amazing hemotoma on my left hip (see photo–but it looks much better in person–10 hours post crash), some bruises and scrapes on my left elbow and knee, a very sore shoulder from taking most of the impact on my upper arm, and the thing that hurts worst:  the meat of my palm.  I have NO IDEA how I injured this as all the falling happened to the left, and this was my right hand.  Thank god for the padded cycling glove.  I walked around work cradling my hand and found signing my name a tender chore.

I knew I’d crash eventually–it’s impossible to think I would be immune to it.  But really-it was a good crash, good in that I’m not seriously hurt and that I’m a little more aware of road conditions.  Wet leaves?  Lesson learned.

–Karen

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       “I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

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