Well 2016 was another quiet race year, moving 1000+ miles and building a house was distracting enough, so it was never going to be a big race year. Also after 17-years of racing, it's hard to get motivated to do enough training to justify the mostly high race entry fees. Add to that I'm living at 5,430ft, aka mile high country and there you have it ( Read more... )

Brit' DJ and early mix innovator Greg Wilson has been posting a series of music related questions, while at the same time posting a set of 12 2-hour MP3 sets called Random Influences. The MP3's are a fabulous romp through the 60's, 70's with some 80's but no talking, no mixing and no theme. They are great quality, but completely "Random" sequence. ( Read more... )

Sorry I've been ignoring you, I have to admit much of my Tri related training and personal life stuff has migrated over to Facebook. I have to say the only real reason for that is I've been too busy, too tired or in too much pain to write anything more than 256-character posts that Facebook allows for status ( Read more... )

I've been tagged on Facebook a few times already, including by mojojoey so decided to have a go this evening finally... I'll add facebook tags later when it shows up as a note on my facebook page. I thought I'd do all 25 on jobs I'd had and things that happened at work before I was 22. I had a blind date Friday evening, she kept asking questions, I kept ( Read more... )

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Lately I've been coming up with some great one-liners in emails. Todays was:

"Things are never what they were, even if nothing changes, it doesn't stay the same"

and the other day in trigeeks in a response to crys79 about road vs tri bikes and bike fit, I said:

"Bike fittings are like boyfriends, they always seem good to start out, but you might need to try one or ( Read more... )

An occasional x-post from my Austin Metroblog.

Better get ready for major downtown disruptions this weekend. First up the 4th Annual BatFest shuts South 1st Bridge all day Saturday, overnight and all day Sunday. Of course Saturday p.m., is the UT Football Game. This is something I have yet to experience, but given it’s the first game of the season, ( Read more... )

It's full moon Saturday, which came around quickly. That means Full Moon Yoga at 7pm at 'Ridge Oak Drive Scenic Overlook, 4400 Ridge Oak Dr., Austin, 78731 - Bring at mat, or beach towel and an Ommm or two ( Read more... )