South Mountain

Got up early this morning before church to hike up South Mountain today. Good hike! Went up and back in 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Can't stop thinking about getting this bike. My mind has also really been turning over ideas for what kind of gear we are gonna want to take. Hopefully before Christmas we will get some more specs up for gear on the website. Right now we are still deciding what stuff we want. The gear we take will also have to do with who sponsors us and who is willing to help us out. I look forward to seeing how that pans out. Hoping to get some help from REI. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Pralines N' Cream

Just finished off my day working at Baskin Robbins. My favorite ice cream at the moment is Pralines N' Cream and I found myself taste testing probably more than I should have today. After Black Friday yesterday the store was real slow which is probably why I found myself drifting back towards that particular flavor. Despite frequenting the Pralines N' Cream tub often today I couldn't help but think about the change in eating habits I will soon be making as I start to train more for our BIGGMAC trip. I'm definitely going to exercise some self control when I'm around the ice cream buckets.

Despite the ice cream binging today, I did make some head way to completing the web site. I purchased a product from the Apple Store which is going to be used as our photo gallery. As of right now the photo tab is not up and working however, soon it should be. It will allow allow us to upload photos from anywhere we have access to a computer with internet. Sounds really cool! Hopefully the next couple days I can meet with Jason, our internet guy, to help set it up.

A couple more weeks and the college semester will be over and I will have much more time to dedicate towards this endeavor. I expect things to start coming together much quicker then.

As for today... time to hit the hay. G'night.

Black Friday

Started out my day today hiking Camelback Mountain with my dad, Mike Lynch and a couple other friends. We got there in the morning and the mountain, being usually busy, wasn't busy at all. I was able to get the best parking spot in the lot. We made our way up to the top, enjoyed the view for a while, looked for a geocache and then headed on down. By the time we were half way down the crowds had decided to show up. This mountain is rather technical and difficult to climb and holy smokes we saw some people heading up the mountain that had no business doing so. By the time we had arrived at the bottom, sure enough there was the fire department getting ready to head up the mountain to rescue someone who had fallen flat on their face and knocked themselves out cold. It didn't sound to good but the guy ended up walking out with some assistance. It was good to hear he wasn't hurt all that bad.

Being Black Friday and all most people were out hitting the stores as early as 12AM. Not I. I don't prefer the crowds so I decided to steer away from any shopping that I would need to do that day and save it for another. Ended up working that evening at Baskin Robbins until close and now I sit and blog. I hope BIGGMAC will start to gain some attention soon. While I tell all my relatives about it I ponder ways to get the word out more. Comment if you have any suggestions.

As far as training goes... Sounds like I won't be ordering my bike until maybe this coming Monday. I look forward to it. I've been doing little hikes here and there but I haven't done much as far as training goes. I really need to start putting more time and effort into it. The holiday season makes that a little harder but, I'll try and not let that become an excuse. I'll probably end up hiking Camelback Mountain again on Sunday morning.

Keep coming back. I hope to keep this blog going everyday. G'night!

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving... A day of awesome food, fun, football, and friendship. For a couple reasons, this thanksgiving has more emotional weight for me. After graduating high school, these last two years for me have proven the most difficult I have yet to endure. More challenges have poked their heads up than ever before. However, with these challenges I have learned a lot and now have much to be thankful for. As I get older friends and family mean more and more to me and currently I am most thankful for them. I continue to learn how much our troops have actually sacrificed for our freedom and therefore, I am ever thankful for what they do too. Because of their deeds I have the opportunity to participate in such a trip as the GDMBR. I can't help but smile.

Today my family and I will continue on a tradition of about 25 years as we get together with friends to eat, play football and just have fun. I skipped breakfast just for the occasion and look forward to eating myself into discomfort. Should be fun!

Look for a meaningful moment under the Bios tab at www.biggmac.com to learn the significance of the angel on the bike. It will be our first meaningful moment.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Eve of Food Day

So we were going to go to the bike store today and order our bikes but, the rep at the store headed for Tucson, AZ until next week so it's going to be until next week before we get them on order.

On another note... Thanksgiving is tomorrow and it's time to start spreading the word to try and get sponsorships and most importantly, raise money for cancer research through livestrong. We haven't pushed our trip to much yet because we were going to use our web site as a tool to push it and advertise so that people knew we were real. I'll be getting in touch with mike today so that we can figure out what our strategy is going to be. Specific companies we will talk to and what we can do to get the word out. It's getting exciting!

If anyone has any suggestions please use the comment page at www.biggmac.com

GETTING STARTED!!

Today is the day we start blogging our new Journey for B.I.G.G.M.A.C.