I’ve spent this past summer traveling around Vermont, looking for the best multisport training – the best rides, the best running loops or running trails, and the best pools or open water swims. I did it partly for the adventure, but really, I did it to gather the information to start building this website – multisportmaps.com…. a comprehensive guide of places to train for serious athletes. I’m starting with Vermont – if you’re anywhere in the state, and want to know where the closest lap pool is, or you want to know where the closest killer-climb is, or you just want to take a nice, short run from your door, it’ll be here. The full site, with at least the Vermont information included, is being built now (it’ll launch this spring). In the meantime though, I’ll be publishing a blog, developing the Multisport Maps culture - sharing descriptions and reviews of some of the places I visited, sharing some pictures, some stories from the road, and really, writing on anything to do with endurance sports, Vermont, my new home (Colorado), or whatever’s on my mind. I hope you enjoy!

----- Brian Burns

Monday, December 31, 2007

Boulder (part 1) – The Buddies

OK. I’m still far from settled, but I’m starting to get my footing a little bit here in Boulder…. The pieces are starting to fall into place. Of course this blog is more about Multisport Maps, and me in it, than it is about just me, so I’ll try and keep this short – but I thought it might be fun to give a little overview of my new life here. I’ll start with Daniel and Rebecca: a cute couple, two of my best friends, and the primary part of motivation that got me out here in the first place. We were inseparable for a bit there in college, lived apart for awhile after graduation, and now, are together again. I’ve been living in their place while I search for my own, and in the last week or so we’ve done some cool things – watched a couple movies, played tackle-nerf football on the living room floor, took a snowy drive, a couple hikes, and spent a somewhat-memorable night at a neighborhood bar (details to remain unsaid). It’s been a blast.

Here are a couple pictures of them. The first is Daniel at dinnertime last night, the next is of Rebecca with the family pug, Mugsy. The last two are me with both of them, goofing around on a couple hikes:




No comments: