Fitness Fits

Its been about two months since I have been able to run. The one time I did ended up with me limping back home. Doc says an overuse injury. Still throbs if I am on it too long and still have to take NSAIDS. Will see what the orthopedic surgeon says. Good news is I found a place that appears to really understand how to do a bike fit. Epic Bicycles if you are in the McDonough , GA area, should be checked out. Ask for Mike Stigers. I am headed back in three weeks for the Specialized BG 3D Fit. However I can say that Mike seems to have corrected what was a bad fit causing my right leg tendons to become inflamed. So far so good. totally different feel and position on the bike now. remarkable. A little disappointed in how I ended up getting here, but that's a side story...

Taking the Dip

Broke down and chose to go for the multisport training. Partly due to curiousity but mostly due to my body not handling larger volumes of single sport training. Tired of trying to buy new shoes, insoles, etc to avoid pain. Rediculous. Coach feels he can manage my issues with tri training with less time in any one sport. Time will tell.... Looks like I will spend about a month just learning how to float. Suprising at how different swimming is from how you learn (dont drown) to swimming efficiently. Should be interesting.

Oh yeah. Got a PS3. Mostly for the company DLNA gateway functionality we have implemented. Should be interesting.

Delorme Update

Well the unit was not what I was hoping for. While the unit was certainly a great all in one device, it did not really mount in an appropriate way to my roadbike bars. More so it did not mount at all. The only bike mount I found was more for mountain bike bars. Clearly not for higher speed aero positions. Was unfortunate but as could be expected. In addition their TOPO software which is really the only one out there doing elevation profiles (i have found) could not take a route made on a ride, and convert that to turn by turn directions. Really doing understand how this is not possible. I mean you have a billion waypoints, all going in the same direction on main roads. Can not the software TELL this and just point out the road and the turn? Really strange. Had it done that I would have tried to find a workaround to the handbar issue but it was just too many strikes in my opinion. Maps have gotten better but still not 1005. There is a road in my neighborhood that has not even existed for at least the 5 years I have been here, yet it still shows as a road on the software. Delorme did finally get my neighborhood on the map, even though google earth, yahoo, and MS all had them on their sites years before. Just really disappointing as I always though of Delorme as THE mapping company and that has clearly changed since I lived in Maine....

Ebayers

Man it still amazes me at the crap people will buy on Ebay. Just the idea of being able to buy new products and selling them off at a rate of price erosion that beats renting something is great. That said I hate PayPal and think Ebay totally screws their customers. How is it exactly that its a benefit to the seller to use PayPal? I mean I have no obligation as a standard of doing Ebay transactions, until the payment officially clears. Therefore the only party benefitting (and therefore who should pay for the service) , is the buyer. They are the ones benefiting for making the case that they can get something shipped faster as their payment is "instantaneous".

Regardless - I just charge the buyer. So far no one has balked at this..

And their RSA security key sucks. So far it has yet to be activated and their crack support team has yet to figure it out. BUT THEY DO HAVE MY 5 DOLLARS.

A good run by any standards - even with a head cold for that matter.

slowly but surely I am picking up some speed in my longer runs. Negative splits leaving me with a 7:33 pace. Could not get into Threshold due to some cramping, so given I ran this in a more endurance training pace, I would say I am getting pretty close to a sub 7 pace half. Thats the goal.

Awaiting Arrival

of the new Delorme PN-20 handheld GPS navigational device. I have played with various tools for GPS and one thing is clear: they all do things well in some areas but usually nothing of value across all areas of onces needs in GPS. I am hoping the PN-20 does me good.

It was a struggle to buy a Delorme product as knowing that their road maps in Street Atlas were SERIOUSLY outdated. The ideal that a google or Yahoo could be doing a better job than them in the real of mapmaking was just not impressive at all. I am in the strong hopes they come through this time with a qualit tool thats let me do what I want to. More on that here.

KicksandCranks HootsandHollers

I am encouraging anyone to post comments to the rides and run locations i have mapped out on kicksandcranks.com. I am asking for anything from known issues (dogs, rednecks with guns, known insitutes of ill repute, etc. to step forward and warn the users.

In addition, positive things and those that one would be most interested in knowing and would ENCOURAGE cyclists are preferred...

Thanks!

Scott