Todd was key in getting me hooked up with the Polar, so I sat down and wrote this head-to-head comparison of Garmin's Forerunner 305 and Polar's S625X.

This blog exists primarly as a way for me to document this process for myself. I like sharing the experience, but the main idea is to have a permanant record that I can look back upon and remember details that may otherwise get lost in the prism of hindsight. Todd reminded me of this by commenting how much he wishes he had something similar to look back upon for his run up to Ironman Canada last year. If you (the reader) finds something interesting in the process, great. I'm not sure of...

I love gizmos, especially gizmos that help me see when I am (or am not) making improvements. I now have two ways to measure power on the bike, my CompuTrainer stationary system that's in my basement, and the new PowerTap hub that I recently picked up. The two work together nicely - CompuTrainer inside, PowerTap outside, and they both output data that I can load into CyclingPeaks, which is software that proceses it. Actually I'd like to give kudos to the CyclingPeaks folks here. My long (5hr) Saturday rights are a little...

After three very solid build weeks, we ratched it back pretty far this week for a couple of reasons. One is that I was losing steam, both physically and motivation-wise. Last Saturday/Sunday was tough. The other is that the calf/achilles issue that cropped up was pretty concerning. So we laid off it for the week which was the right call. It needed all of that time to come around - almost zero running this week. This level of volume was...

Well, Vista launched but there are no CableCard systems that launched with it. So I'm still waiting. I'm not the only one.