Earlier today, I spoke with a university admissions counselor about the possibility of enrolling for the fall semester.

Yesterday, I spoke with an MSF Instructor site manager about being a Rider Coach part time while I went to school full time.

This might just happen. It's kinda exciting.

:)

The Fuji Aloha CF2 Carbon Fiber Tri bike


( Read more... )

According to my training schedule, I should have done long runs of 16 miles and 12 miles over the past two weeks. According to my body, long runs weren't going to happen - my last attempt to push myself was rewarded with a stuffy head, dizziness, and days of coughing.

Guess the Napa Marathon isn't happening... again.

Here's what we're looking at:

March 2 - Napa Marathon
May 3 - Wildflower Long Course
July 12 - Downieville Classic
Oct 28 - SOMA Half Ironman

Feels good thinking about it now, but I know there's a lot of work (and pain) ahead...

I can't stop watching this improvisational guitar Iron Maiden spoof. I lost it when the monster came out.

Click to view

Evidently - thanks to YouTube - a Filipino kid is gonna be the new lead singer for Journey. I didn't believe it myself, til I read it here.

Edit - I just read that Arnel is no kid, being 40 years old

Click to view

Thursday

Lisa and I ran the San Jose 10K Turkey Trot. I knocked 38 seconds off of last years time, but still got my ass handed to me. No ice cream bet this time :)

Mike: 55:02 (8:44 min/mile)
Lisa: 50:53 (8:12 min/mile)

Friday:Mountain biking at China Camp in Marin with some new rider friends, where we covered 9 miles with around 2000 feet of ( Read more... )

It's nice to know I'm surrounded by em :) Together, they were able to raise over $1,000 to help me get my bike back together. Thanks to everyone who helped out and chipped in, the bike should be up and running again soon!


( Read more... )

The optimist in me believed that if I rode smoothly, predictably, and left a myself a comfortable safety margin, I would safely return from 99% of my uncompetitive track experiences. And having been almost incident free in about six straight years as a trackday / race school instructor - despite riding between 10-20 track days a year since 2001 - ( Read more... )

The short version

My girlfriend kicked my ass in our first triathlon together, and won our side bet that involved a Fenton's ice cream sundae.

( The long version )

Just to make things a little more interesting, the new girlfriend and I placed a side bet on the Santa Cruz Sentinel triathlon - loser buys the winner a Black and Tan sundae at Fenton's Creamery ( Read more... )