Today I’m going to go bike 360 . Chicago Triathlon is only 7 days away, and the Austin Tri is 2 weeks away. I’ve decided just to focus on time and distance rather than speed. I’m concerned about the distance of the Austin tri, as it will be my first Olympic distance triathlon.
So this should be fun. It’s a bit hot today, though. Definitely bringing the camelback.
I can relate to Mike Hon’s post about only needing internet cable.. I have gotten the same reaction to only having cable internet and to not having a TV. Pretty funny.
It made me think of a book I have started reading which I am borrowing from a friend. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television was written by Jerry Mander (yes, that is his actual given name).
He was an advertizing executive in the 60s and early 70s, and was very very good at it. This makes his work speak much more loudly as he had so much exposure to using Television both as a commercial medium as well as for social purposes. He holds that technology is not neutral. That some technologies will inherently only be good for some things.
Highly recommended reading even though I have only just started it. More as it develops.
At HEB, I went shopping on Sunday and got sweet Bartlett pairs and other fresh fruits and vegetables. HEB is close to my place and of course cheaper than Central Market and Whole Foods. I saw some bright red Sun Dried Tomatoes that looked especially tastey. For between $2-3 you can get about 12 oz.
So the next day at work, in the afternoon, Angela mentioned something about my snacks and I remember the sunflower seeds, pumpkin seed and dried tomatoes. So I take them out and we start munching.
They are ripe and red, and (at first) tasty. A bit salty though, and not quite as sweet as others I have had. So I’m munching away and talking about doing karaoke on Thursday with Angela and some others perhaps, and I read the label:
Product of Turkey.
Ingredients: Tomatoes, Sulfur Dioxide.
Hmm, i think. These tomatoes wouldn’t pass emissions. Wikipedia has an article on Sulfur Dioxide that mentions it’s use as a preservative.
At any rate, Richard said it didn’t sit right. It made my head feel funny. Today, Angela reported having headache last night.
I don’t recommend Turkish sundried tomatoes at HEB. Tell your friends.
I’m missing it this year, though lots of friends are going. I’m really pumped about next year though. There is a friend of mine who was into BBS in the 80′s and really just the whole scene that DEFCON stands for, but he has never been to a DEFCON.
I was blown away when he said, that yes he’d go with us next year! Totally stoked. I’m so happy he is going to get to go. He’s had a lot of hard knocks, so to hear that things are going well and looking up, and that he’ll be able to afford to take the time and money to go and do something like this makes me happy.
There was a time in my life about 13 years ago when I was really depressed. And I just happened to get that way after I had ben running a lot every day and not eating enough. So it kind of turned me off of running for a long time.
Well for the first time in about 3 years (the last triathlon), I went for a run and really enjoyed it. Now, some of my more recent runs have been OK and enjoyable, but this one really felt right.
My running had been really awkward with a weaker right leg and just a lot of wierd asymmetries I couldn’t put my finger on. Kind of like when you learned how to ride a bike and before you got the hang of it, you couldn’t quite put your finger on why you kept falling off.
Anyways, I ran about 15 minutes to warm up and it felt like nothing. Well, not nothing, but it just felt good, and I was running with good form. I didn’t feel anythign like I had a celery stalk for an arm and Patrick Duffey for a leg when I ran tonight. After 15 minutes, I ran a mile pretty strong in 8:30. That’s pretty quick for me. The last time I ran it was more like 10 minute miles. This was after 18 miles on a bike on the veloway about an hour earlier. That workout took an hour.
Yay! running is fun again! Can’t wait to swim tomorrow.
None of these options even come close to what I had in mind…