Triathlon

I did the Corvallis triathlon today. 1000 meter swim, 12k bike, 4k run. There were 49 participants, and some of them were other Bearcats. This one is more heavily oriented on the swim, because it's designed for swimmers. I got first in my age group (but Adam and I were the only ones in our age group), and 12th overall, with a time of 59:51. The first place guy overall, Tyler Storie (Senior Nationally ranked swimmer), got 46 minutes something. I didn't have time to train for the running, so I'm having trouble walking now. The biking part was hilly, but not as bad as the Stayton triathlon. I was still out of breath on the hills though. At the end I was wondering if I would collapse, so I went to hang onto a nearby fence. But then that raised the question of whether I would make it to the fence or not...

Long course morning practice

We had morning practice in Corvallis again this morning, from 8:00 to 10:00. It was supposed to be from 7:00 to 10:00, but Kate got the times wrong so we all showed up at 8:00. It was really hard, and our main set was 3x100's @ 1:40, 300 @ 3:45, 3x100's @ 1:35, 300 @ 3:45, 3x100's @ 1:30, 300 @ 3:45, 3x100's @ 1:25, but we did the last 2x100's cooldown because it was the end of practice. It was actually longer than that, but that's how far we got before running out of time. We swam 7100 meters (4.41 miles) today.

Trip to the beach

We went to the beach today. There was a huge dune, about 200 feet tall, that I climbed. It took seven minutes to get up and thirty seconds to come down. The dune was so steep that when I was running down the side, I jumped up and didn't come back down for a few seconds. The rectangular sand mansion that I built was right on the edge of the tide, so I made a wall and a ditch around it to protect it from the waves.

My floor

Whoa, looks like I need to clean my room.

Cafepress shop

I've opened my own CafePress shop, currently selling two different t-shirts called "A geek I am" and "Pain doesn't hurt". Please take the time to visit it.

Monday evening practice

Our main set today was 9x300's, the first three are on the 3:55, the second set of three is on the 3:40, and the last three are on the 4:10 but it has to be the fastest of all three sets. And there's a minute rest in between each set of three. I had to race Erica on the last 300, and when I finished I couldn't get out of the pool at first. I think my arms are going to fall off...

Resurrecting old computers

We brought the old G3 tower into my room, and I installed Tiger on it and updated the software. It's only 350MHz, which is too slow to run an AirPort card, so I'm using the super-powerful wifi antenna that I made. But since the receiver is made by D-Link it overheats easily, and the dish of the antenna makes it overheat even more. So I set up a fan to cool it down, which works really well. However, there are now at least 12 power cables connected to outlets in my room, and it's threatening to short circuit.

404 assassinated

I've tracked down the source of the 404 error when trying to download the Time Converter widget, so the link now works properly.

Morning practice

We had morning practice in Corvallis this morning from 8:00 to 10:00, and it was hard. Our main set was 3 800's descend 1-3 (and remember it's a long course pool), and then right after that we had an I.M. set that was 4 50's fly, 200 I.M., 4 50's back, 200 I.M., 4 50's breast, and 200 I.M. The 200 I.M.'s were supposed to be descend 1-3, but I didn't hear when someone said that so I did them all the same speed. Our total distance was 6700 meters (4.16 miles).

Printer Cartridges

Anyone want to buy some printer cartridges from me?

Time Converter widget

I created a Dashboard widget called Time Converter. It's specially made for swimmers, and it lets you convert your meters time into yards, or vice versa. You can download it from my software page. EDIT: The download link on my software page is coming up with a 404 for me even though there's nothing wrong with the link, and I don't know if it's just my cookies or if there really is a problem. If it's still not working in a few days, I'll look further into it.

Swim meet movies

Here are the links to the movies from the third day of the swim meet that I tried to post a few days ago. Fly leg of the 400 meter I.M. Freestyle leg of the 400 meter I.M.

Blogger

I've switched to Blogger, for several reasons. First of all, with Blogger, it separates the comments by post, so it doesn't get all cluttered. Also, I was having some data loss issues with my other blog. Since I can't transfer my previous posts on my other blog to Blogger, I'll save the files and keep a link to them here and on the right side of the page.