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If you're ever looking to do this I would love to put together a team (don't worry there's running): Three Peaks Yacht Race

I'm aiming for 7000 or 8000 miles on the bike this year. And yes metabolizing fat truly sucks. Some people are just naturals at it and I'm not. I know this guy (longtime cyclist) takes up marathon at 53 and does an under 12hrs in his first Ironman, blew me away.

Cool. I know how you feel on the knackered part. I'm in the final week of a standard 4 week build cycle and I've got around 6 more hours of riding in the aerobic zone to get in in the next 3 days and a high intensity weight lifting session. I am looking forward to my recover week of only 5.5hrs of working out next week. I am doing this while attempting to maintain a pretty strict calorie restriction and while the weight is falling pretty rapidly I am feeling like shit when I clear more than 1.5 hrs into any particular workout. It's only going to get worse over then next 8-12 weeks as I have 2 more base cycles with long hours on the bike before I back off. I'm aiming for 400 hrs (plus race hours) this year. Do you use a workout tracking software? I'm a big fan of Training Peaks.

Good on you sir. Not to discourage but the general thought among sports physiologists is to take at least one day totally off or at least really really light a week.

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too bad he now sells $$$$$ speaker cables etc....

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Congrats Birgir on the big win

damn it's snowing already and I have to drive out to Carderock MD for a meeting which means I get to deal with snowy traffic on the way home... yay... edit: x2 on the epic retitle

If you do organize this please let me know I'd love to tag along....

Yeah I guess. I had to join because of my cycling club's Cat 4/5 racing team doing all the organizing through it. We'll see if it was worth the time sink.

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I really don't need them and I'm happy with my 800s but that said I want to hear them rather badly. I wonder if I can find a balanced pair to borrow....

what are the weird things in the back that look like a bowl on stand? I am probably never going to be able to justify them but the Lipinski's look amazing...

Great point. I thought that the effect due to this interaction was usually considered jitter too or at least that's what the pro equipment manuals call it when they warn you to use good cables for this etc.

Woke up to get my bike ready for a suitably cold ass ride but then it started snowing... Instead of riding I discovered that my stuttering issue on my music laptop when using wireless vs wired network connections appears to be a non-issue any longer and I'm not sure what is the cause but I'll take it. My shitty home power plug based wired connection was slower than tar.

Good luck with the job if you want it. What kind of analyst? I know a guy who's an oil trader for shell but it's in Dubai. He's proud of the fact that he has a hand in driving up the price of oil. That's pretty much the outlook you have to have. I actually interviewed with a bunch of oil companies when I decided to leave academia and even went so far as to look into houses in Houston etc but luckily I didn't get any of them. I think they could sense my overall hatred of the companies even if the work was interesting. I would have just left in a year or two anyway.

Congrats Colin!

Thanks guys and gals for the congrats. On a related note it looks like true to form my company puts additional (rather complex) responsibility on people without explaining one damn thing.....

Nice on the 70-200. I have the Nikon one and l flat out love that lens.

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I was just announced as officially becoming the manager of my group. Yay for having to do time sheet approval and performance reviews. Good to have it formalized though.

Good luck to you sir!

We bought one for around Hoover $200 from home depot that was great. We don't use it much any more since we got a cleaning service.

It is now an all out war: Signeo reveals 'Soul by Ludacris' headphone series at CES -- Engadget