It's been almost two weeks since race day. I've had very little training on my schedule. First a full week off (wierd!) and this week and next are pretty light. Did 90 minutes the bike today, which was the most work since race day. Man it's nice to go for an easy ride on a sunny day. I was really tired most of the first week and that's gotten better. A few small aches and pains have sprung...

Thinking back on race day, I've been thinking about things that worked really well or things that were "lesson's learned". I posted this over on the Triorganic Forums, thought I'd repost here. If you've got more tips to add, please post them over as a reply on Triorganic. General:1. Simplicity trumps everything for race nutrition plans. The simpler it is, the more likely you'll stick to it. For example, consider having all your bike calories in a...

[WARNING: This Got REALLY Long. But, hey, it's got pictures!] The Setup. Prior to May 2004 I'd never actually swam a lap in a pool in my life. Triathlons sounded fun, and that July I signed up for and raced in the SeaFair Sprint Triathlon (see picture taken from plane on the way to Tempe below). I never thought I'd do an Ironman. In fact, there were several times when things like "no way", "hell no", and "never"...

Time has gone by quickly here in Tempe. Wedneday we got into town and wandered around a bit, and go on the bikes for a while. We found a great place about 5 blocks from the race start. Very nice to be able to walk back and forth to the race area. Every morning, they've been opening the lake for athletes to swim in. The swim is straight forward. The "lake" is really a resevoir that's about 400 yards wide by a 1.5 miles long....

Four days to go. The last two weeks have brought the last of the work and the Taper phase. It's very odd to go from 17-20 hours of volume down to 7 or less, but that's how it works. Some people report having "the taper blues" which is a set of things that happen to your body when you do this. Some people feel sluggish and start to freak about their fitness (I haven't had this problem), some people get all kinds...

A few months back I posted some questions and ideas around the Digital Cable Tuner support in Windows Vista Media Center (MCE). The idea is that you can finally get a device that allows your MCE machine to tune cable channels. I was looking forward to this because I've wanted to move to a centralized media/music/pictures/DVR server for a while. Well, it turns out the story isn't so great here. I think I understand the whole thing here, and at the end...