Friday, January 15, 2010

What have the mules been up to lately?






Cory decided he needed a break and flew halfway across the world to Thailand for an extended vacation of massages (hopefully not too many happy endings). We haven’t really heard from him, so we are hoping he isn’t in jail. But that could only happen if he got really drunk. Who Cory??!!

Erik (Emule) has been busy designing and building a house for his dad.


Ben and Dana have been doing a lot of skiing and preparing for a new arrival. We will have a full blooded junior mule soon.

Bill? Well you probably all follow his blog anyway, but he has been up to some big Missoula adventures.

Julie is getting ready for some half-ironman’s this summer and preparing for a full next. She has been busy searching for training fuel recipes since bars at the store our breaking the bank account. Here is what she found.

½ cup of chopped dates-don’t buy them chopped, coarsely chop them yourself.
½ cup of dried cranberries
½ cup of walnuts

Put the dates and cranberries into a food processor until they form a big ball
Put the mixture in a separate bowl
Put the nuts into a food processor until they are finely chopped
Push the nuts into the ball of dates and cranberries until they are all in and mixed in well
Form to whatever shape you like and eat!!!

This recipe can be modified in so many ways. Add some peanut butter, use dried apricots instead of cranberries, and use pecans instead of walnuts. Be creative. Yum Yum!!
She can attest to this recipe. 4 hours on skate skis and I stayed fueled!!!

Rich is happily spinning in his basement to century spinerval DVDs and when he isn’t doing that attempting to take his dogs out on skate skis. I guess that isn’t going very well.

Marta is happily embracing skate skiing. Way to go Marta. You will be dragging us up Bozeman Creek soon.

Jenny is skiing hundreds of miles every week (she doesn’t have a job) and wondering why she looks like a toothpick.

Sprout- ever the endurance athlete has been running and running and running. She is planning on a 100 miler this summer. Way to go Sprout.

What have the Mules in store for next season?? Leverich Canyon Crank Up is on the calendar and so is Mule Cross. Other than that I am sure we will be participating in 24 hours of Rapelje, The Headwaters relay, and definitely numerous other events.

This was written by Mulie, if there is anything you would like to add or change please be my guest. I hope I didn’t offend anyone.

Happy training!!!