Yesterday, I was out on a recovery ride and had an odd experience.
At around ten till five, I was at the top of the high bridge in Saint Paul. I rode down the bridge with a furious wind coming the other way at a speed of around 14 MPH and actually shifted down at about [...]
I am attempting to set some expectations for the race this weekend. I
have not done this recently because it scares the crap out of me.
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The New York Road Runners sent me the official news the other day:
Dear …,
Thank you for applying to the ING New York City Marathon 2008. We’re sorry to inform you that…
The email goes on to politely say that I should contact various charitable organizations who — for a few thousand dollars — would be glad [...]
Over here I expressed some intentions. Now for the reality:
Frozen Half, (1:53:11, ~8:39s) check.
Human Race.. skipped.
Get-In-Gear, (44:55, 7:14) check.
Pigman Sprint Tri, registered.
(extra) Minneman Sprint Tri, registered.
Lifetime Olympic Tri, registered.
Time Trailing?? not so much..
Twin Cities Marathon, registered.
New York Marathon, entered into the lottery pool.
At this point, I’m two to the good, with three extra events (there [...]
The Minnesota Triathlon Club is sponsoring a “My First Tri” clinic at the Midtown YWCA on Saturday, April 26th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Here are the details from the email announcement:
It’s finally time for the 2008 version of the MN TriClub’s fabulously famous clinic; “Your First Tri”. This clinic is led by [...]
I’ve been swimming more then usual over the last eight weeks in order to prepare for the 1500m swim leg in the Lifetime Olympic distance triathlon in July. The problem — as always — seems to boil down to some kind of swim endurance and/or comfort level that I need to develop. I wanted to [...]
If you attempted to read anything here in the last sixteen or so hours and had the connection attempt refused it was caused by my upgrade attempt performed yesterday evening. Almost everything is back to normal at this point. Turns out there was a configuration issue for all the virtual domains, so all the user [...]
Late last year Nick Carr wrote a piece titled The business case for TimesSelect which discusses the recent change for the archives of the New York Times away from a subscription model toward an advertising model. Carr’s point is that the Times didn’t necessarily error when they made the choice of a subscription based web [...]
Once upon a time, I could locate albums in my music collection by the color of the spine. The cover art provided a kind of stylistic fingerprint as unique as the music itself; it was tangible. The process of hearing something new involved the consumption of the cover, jacket, and any enclosed materials in concert [...]
The following is a collection of links which I have pulled (verbatim) from Sun’s website which I intend to return to in the future. They came from the Intro to Struts Tutorial (linked), but I’m more interested in the follow ups.
Adding Your Favorite Struts Features to the IDE
When using Struts, you are not limited to [...]
