Today I bought my very first Apple computer – a 13 inch MacBook Pro. I bought the computer to replace my 4-year old Sony Vaio, which is no longer capable of editing the HD video that I am shooting with my Canon T2i and GoPro video cameras. I’m excited to have a new computer, but learning how to use a Mac (when I’ve been a PC user for so long) is certainly going to take some time.

December 2011 was a fairly uneventful month. I landed a website job for the Silver Queen Fine Art Gallery in Park City, Utah, which took up a lot of my time. When I wasn’t working on their website, I was either out skiing at Deer Valley Resort (I got in 7 days of skiing before flying back to California on the 23rd), riding my motorcycle in the cold winter air, or pumping my mountain bike through several inches of snow on Park City’s various bike paths. I also went skiing with Caroline Gleich one day (and she made me realize that I still have a lot to work on) and spent a lot of time in front of the fireplace – reading a few books and doing some research for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

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Video from my travels in Puno, Peru. The Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria is one of the largest street festivals of its type in the world.

I rode the bus into town today and then slowly cycled my way home, stopping to do some errands and window shopping along the way. This long wooden bridge in the area directly across from the Canyons ski resort is one of my favorite areas to bike through in all of Park City. It was freezing cold on the bike ride, but I loved it because there was no one on the trails. I gotta get a few more rides like this in before the snow totally covers up all of the cycling paths.

Today I launched my new eBook – Stretching For Cyclists. It’s a short 31-page book that teaches cyclists how to stretch, when to stretch, and which stretches they should perform. I took the photos that are used throughout the book and did all the writing. My dad helped me with some of the anatomy/stretching information that is found within the text and my friend Caroline Gleich modeled each of the fifteen stretches that are featured in the book.