THOR'S THUNDER BEATS

This years Goal for Miles

2012-01-31T15:09:00.000-08:00

My goal this year is 4000 miles. Last year I ended with just over 3800. My plan is to do serveral different routes before work and after work each day. I also have planned to do the Tour De Cure in Vegas, Riding for a Reason in Salt Lake and the Salt to Saint in September again.
LETS GO 2012!!!

Miles for 2011 - NEW Bike - Speacilized Alea.

2011-10-12T11:28:00.000-07:00

This year I have already completed 3,000 miles on my road Bike. I also baught a new Bike. It fits and it about 2pounds lighter. I love it and hope it lasts at least as long or longer than my Trek. I will post more Pics later.

Salt to Saint Sept.16th - 17th, 2011

2011-10-12T11:23:00.000-07:00

This was my First Official Race on my Bike. All my other rides are for Charity.

I did a Relay race from Salt Lake City to St. George on Sept. 16th from 12noon to 11am Saturday morning. 420 miles of Sun, Rain, Clouds, Damp, Cold and Sun again. I have new Friends and we plan to do it again next year.

2011-08-30T13:29:00.000-07:00

This Years 2011 Riding 4 a Reason was changed to a Centry Ride. (100 miles) which became the toughest Centry Ride in Utah. 8000 feet of climbing.

I did the ride in 6 hours 22 minutes.

This picture shows me heading out from the starting line. GO THOR!

I am looking forward to a great year. I have lost 24 pounds and trying for 6 more.

80 Mile Ride May 14th, 2011

2011-05-18T12:21:00.000-07:00

Really getting started now with the longer rides. With all the rain, its been very hard to get out and ride. Saturday was overcast, but very warm. The Utah Velo club is fun to ride with, but we only had 12 riders Saturday. I hope this Saturday we can see more come out. I have only 3 more weeks until the TOUR De-Cure in Brigham City. I HOPE IT DOES NOT RAIN again like the last 2 years.

I pulled most the way back home that day. Stan Swallow (ride leader) asked me what I did to increase my strenght..I did several things, road the trainer since Jan. P90X almost everyday during the weeks of or months of Feb.-April. AND Changed, my Diet. We as a family eat more Fruits and Veggies. We also have cut milk and gluten from our diet. ok, well we have pizza every now and then.

2011-05-10T12:38:00.000-07:00

Being that My Middle name is THOR and Zachs too. We will have to go see the movie again. We learned that THOR's planet is called Asguard and his father's name is Odin.

The movie is just a little scary at times, but very clean. Great for Kids.

Thor is the God of Thunder!

2011-05-10T12:35:00.001-07:00

I Zach, my cousin Morri and his two boys, Carter & Alex went and saw THOR the Movie Saturday night. AWSOME MOVIE !

Jason on the 45 MileTour Route April 9th 2011

2011-04-20T11:16:00.000-07:00

We were supposed to do 65 miles, but the government was going to shut down, which would close Lake Meed State Park. But late Friday night they announced that they would not shut down, the the course had already been changed. GREAT RIDE!

2011 Cycling Year Begins with VEGAS Tour De Cure.

2011-04-20T11:13:00.000-07:00

I and Jayson Conley went down to Vegas on April 9th and road the Vegas Tour De-Cure. It was kind of a cold weekend, but it was sunny. Then I stayed as Glenda, Zach, Chris, Liz and Max came and we spent the weekend at Excalabur.

R4R August 2010

2010-09-20T12:26:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures from the Ride for a Reason August 14th 2010. This was a charity ride to raise monies for Wheel charis. I am in the bottom picture in Jersey with my arms folded.

2010-07-29T12:59:00.000-07:00

August 24th I, Jayson Conely and a Friend I can not spell or pronounce her name right, road up Squaw Peak, South Fork, and Alpine Loop all in one ride. It was a challenge we have been planning for over a year. It was fun, but I was ready to quit by about mile 55. The three climbs were just almost too much.

I AM NOW AT 1647 miles for the year. YEA!

2010-07-12T12:37:00.000-07:00

Lance Armstrong has not done so well this year in the Tour. I believe 2 wrecks and 1 tire blow out. Last I saw he was about 33 in line.

Lance you should be here in the States supporting the LIVESTRONG RIDES. Its time to drop the Tour De-France.

2010-07-12T12:31:00.000-07:00

This is Thor Hushord from Hungry. He won the 3rd stage of the Tour De-France. I cheered for him since I have the same name as my middle name. GO THOR!

2010-06-30T09:57:00.000-07:00

Hiking up Mt. Timp. Preparing for hike with Preist Q. to the top on July 16th and 17th. I love the water falls up this trail. Last night was beautiful.

Tour De Cure Photo shot of me.

2010-06-22T08:12:00.000-07:00

Here I am, all bundled up on the ride for the Tour De Cure 2010 I think the Temp was about 58. Hoping next year will be warmer.

Tour De- Cure 2010

2010-06-16T10:42:00.000-07:00

June 12th, 2010 was my 5th year riding 100 miles for diebetes in Brigham City, Utah. I got 300+ dollars in pledges this year and loved the ride. The Wind was bad but kepted the rain away until the very end. We had a much smaller team this year, but raised 8,000+ dollars for the cure.

I now sit at 1100 miles for the year. Mine and a Friends goal is 3000 for the year. We can do it if the rain slows a bit.

2010-03-10T10:49:00.000-08:00

A NEW YEAR of Cycling. I am so excited to get back on the Bike. I have been riding my trainer and have reached only 270 miles so far. I'll keep going if its cold outside on my Tariner. I also started the Power 90 X program by Tong Horton. Its great!! Should be in great shape by May. I am going to do the Tour De Cure again in Brigham City on June 12th. Thsi will be my 5th year in a row.

Lots of earth quakes around the world. Hatti, Chili and Turkey all above a 6.0 with Hatti at the top with a 8.8. Hope we are safe here in Utah. We are doing a Mock disaster in our neighbor this weekend an dI hope it goes well and we all learn something that will help us prepare.

Year almost Over!

2009-12-14T13:31:00.000-08:00

This has been a good year for Biking and i have almost hit 2500 miles. Maybe only 25 miles left. I did not really intend on doing that many miles, but have been gettin up early some mornings and ridding the trainer.

Mom and Dad came home from Ireland last Wednesday night. It was a bitter sweet moment and It's good to have them home again.

Looking forward to this 2010 year of Biking and all other activities. I plan on riding in the Lance Armstrong cancer ride Ocotber 9th 2010. I might get a new bike this coming spring. So excited to pick one out.

Moab trip to Arches National Park. Delicate Arch - Me at the Base.

2009-09-16T14:33:00.000-07:00

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I and Austin Denter sitting at a 1000 foot drop next to Gemini Bridge.
2nd picture me at shore of Colorado River.
3rd - me in Little Wild Horse Canyon.
4th - me at base of Delicate Arch

2009-09-16T14:28:00.000-07:00

Federico Fernadez, Me, Austin Denter, Bishop Echols, Jake Sorensen, Kevin echols

Last month (August 5th-8th I went with the Priest Qourum to Moab. We visited the Arches, Dead Horse Point and the colorado river. We also did some 4 wheel driving to antoher arch called Gemini Bridge. We saw a great star show the first night in the sky and a terential rain storm after getting off the river Friday. I had a great time with the boys.

2009-09-16T14:22:00.000-07:00

Alpine Medical Ride for Wheel Chairs. See how green our mountians are this year.

Last month I road 72 miles to raise monies for wheel chairs. Enough money was raised to buy two very nice electric wheel chairs for children that family could not aford to buy. The ride was from emigaration canyon to east canyon and over to a small town named Henifer. There was about 4000 feet of inclined buy beautiful country to enjoy.

2009-07-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

Alpine LOOP July 24th.

2009-07-28T12:14:00.000-07:00

Last Friday I and my Friend Jayson Conley took on the Alpine Loop and actually road up it quit easlily. I think the ride up Nebo helped strenthen our legs. I really enjoy the sceenery while riding and is why I would never be a good racer. I the picture of me in the BYU Jersey you can see what a sight it is of Sundace Skii resort and the back side of Timanogas Mountian. I love to ride and wish I could more often. I just hit 1500 miles for the year.

Summer Fun & Ride

2009-07-15T08:48:00.000-07:00

Life is good. I am still in one peice. And I am not planning another surgery. As a family we went to Lagoon last week and had fun. I never thought I would have fun just enjoying watching the others do the rides. Zach took off with cousins and friends and had a ball. While I road only a few rides. My Anxiety just does not like to play on rides so i took it easy this time at Lagoon.
I road the Nebo Loop last Saturday a total of 70 miles. 26 of those miles was up hill to 9342 feet. Just about 5000 feet total climb. I feel pretty good about myself doing this ride. It makes the Alpine loop seem just a bit easier now. I think I'll do the Alpine loop a coule more times this year. My Friend Jayson wants to do the Nebo Loop again, just us maybe in September, like Labor Day. I think I just might do it.
Harry Potter just came to the Theaters again. Me and Zach plan on going twice Saturday. We have been watching all the others for the last two weeks on DVD. I can't believe time has gone so fast and now the sixth book is now a movie. I read up to the 5th book and only made it in about 200 pages and just could not get into it. But, the movies have continued to interest me.
My yard this year has disapointed me in some ways. I hope I can do something more with it next year. Dead trees, tree roots, weeds, weeds and more weeds have continued to enoy me. Can I say what I really want for my yard? I want a cement pad on the north side of the house with a nice shed and edging around the entire yard. I would also like enough money to turn our garden into a nice tropical garden. Ofcourse this would need to beinside of a very large green house. Other than those few things I need a new awsome BIKE!

2009-06-03T08:33:00.000-07:00

My ride with the Utah Velo Club Saturday May 30th. Hobble Creek ride. I am in front kneeling down right in the middle. This was after about 40 miles.

2009-05-27T13:15:00.000-07:00

I am registered for the Tour de-Cure for my forth year in a row. I have rasied 300 dollars for this ride and hope I can finish the 100 miles in less than 6 hours. This is a fund raiser for the American Diabetes Association to fund the cure for diabetes. Thanks to all who havw supported me the past years and this year too.

600 mile marker.

2009-05-27T13:01:00.000-07:00

As of this last week I reached 600 miles so far this year. I am well on my way to 2000 plus miles maybe even hitting 3000. That would be the day.

The picture of I and Zach was at 9mile canyon. May 1st. We saw many Indian petrogliphs. So very cool it was and all the cliffs. We even saw an Indian grainery, made out of adobi brick.

The picture on my bike was taken the first ride of the year (about March 15th and it was very cold. I think about 33 degrees.

2000 MILES in 2008

2008-11-05T10:21:00.000-08:00

Last week October 30th, I reached my goal of 2000 miles riding, acutally I ended at 2008 miles that day. I hit the 2000 mile mark just as I was passing Bride a Vail Falls, which is my favorite view to stop and look at while riding the trail up to South Fork Canyon. So I can say I did 2008 miles in the year 2008 on a bike outside. I have not had to ride alone too much anymore. I teamed up with one of the Velo club members Jayon Conley. We both have been riding together since July sometime. We did the Alpine Loop together for our first ride together. Since then we have done South Fork Canyon several times, Squaw Peak and up to Aspine Grove one other time. This year I did two 100 mile rides and about 2 dozen 50 mile rides. All others were anywhere from 6 miles to 32. Now that the snow is flying I might continue my miles on my trainer in the house.

Fall in the Canyons

2008-09-09T12:59:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday I road with the Velo club up Hobble Creek Canyon. Wow the colors are showing already. In just a couple of weeks it will be in full bloom of fall color. I need just a few more rides to get closer to my goal of miles this year and I would like to do as much of that outside. I am sitting at just over 16 hundred miles today. That sounds like a lot of miles when I put it that way rather than writing 1600. Saturday put me up 57 miles and each week I do about 60 miles just riding to work and back home. I would love to do another 100 mile ride, but will see. Maybe I can't sqeeze it in. With all these miles, my bike is feeling it. I need a new chain, seat, handle bars support and a shorter bike. I found out a month or so ago that my bike it too big for me. Wow If it were any shorter, I would be sitting on the ground it would seem. I just need a new bike, HA, Ha, anyone have about 12oo dollars they just want to give me. Anyway, I like the bike and will probably never get ride of it. Its been a good day

Summer's Over

2008-08-21T15:32:00.000-07:00

I love summer and don't want it to end. My goal for miles on my road bike is 2000 and I am curantly at 1400. Will I make it before the first snow falls.
I and Glenda have been cleaning out the craft room and making it into a Craft/workout room. I would like to come up with a new name for the room. Maybe something like recreation room/blue room/ getaway room/lower west room/area room/ hobbie room/ get-down room/my-room/ happy room/ long room/anything room/ hubb room/ now room/ dump room/ enshoy room/. Help me come up with something good.
We have also been cleaning out the storage room and have found ways to make more room in the shelves. I utilized space by putting card board on top of a shlef full of glass jars and put small glass jars on the carboard to fill the space between the next shelf. We might have a small yard sale to sell items we have now use for anymore too. Well I need to get home and see that Zach is going to mow Porters lawn. So long.

Even or Odd

2008-07-22T12:08:00.000-07:00

I am having a hard time deciding if I should ride my road bike to work everyday or my mountian bike which is much older. I do know if i don't figure out what is causing my mountain bike flat tires, I wont be riding it much more. I road the mountian bike today to work and i did not like the pressure level in the tires. Stan in the club told me hold off a little on the pressure. So I have by 5 pounds and it just does not ride the same. The chain on both bikes should be replaced according to Stans recomendation. He has a tool the meassures the wear on the chain and my road bike is far beyond needing replace. So does even or odd mean anyting different in the choice made?

Summer Events

2008-07-16T13:56:00.000-07:00

I have enjoyed this Summer so much already. I have been cycling much more this year with the club and on my own. I just reached over 1000 miles this year. I have had already 5 flats not on my road bike on my mountian bike. I am almost ready to hang it up. Other than cycling, I have been to a couple movies, backpaking with the scouts and was in the Stadium of Fire opening show as an Olympic cyclist. I can forget our family trip in may to San Diego California. We visited the Zoo, Wild Life Park, Sea World, and the USS MIDWAY. The trip was great.

Today's THUNDER BEAT is: help someone in need and the blessing will pour upon you like rain.