To start off our week we headed to our favorite breakfast spot, Chair 6. The food there is just great and the breakfasts are just fabulous. I do miss the more casual atmosphere that the place used to have, but hey the food is still good so I will just have suck it up. We …
January 2011 archive
Jan 30
Lake Placid Winter Vacation 2011–Day 1
Got off to a late start on Sunday morning due to wrestling with my Yakima Rocket Box so I could get my car keys out. I was on the road by 10:15AM and the drive up was pretty uneventful. Hit some some in the Catskills and southern Adirondacks, but nothing that caused any issues on …
Jan 22
The Flyers Game Brick Workout
Today I did a new workout called the Flyers Game Brick Workout. With temps in teens today, I was remanded to either the treadmill or the trainer. I struggle to not die of boredom on either of them for more than 45 minutes. The Flyers were playing the Devils today at 1PM so I thought …
Jan 21
The Longer I Swim, The Better I Feel…
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://brianschwind.net/wpblog/?p=190 Today was my Friday off, so I planned on getting in a good swim. We had gotten around 5 inches of snow last night, so running or cycling were out. I started out with my typical 500yds of warm-up and 500yds of drills. For my main set I did a 100-200-300-200-100 pyramid set. Somewhere …
Jan 17
Top 21 Travel Photography Subjects
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://brianschwind.net/wpblog/?p=188 The Digital Photography School website has a great article series on Travel Photography Subjects by Peter West Carey. The article points out that to truly capture an area that you have visiting shooting the following subjects will provide a sense of that area. Below are the list of subjects which will link you to …
Jan 15
Training Year Off to Up-And-Down Start
This year promises to be an interesting one with the my journey towards completing my first Half-Ironman at Ironman Pocono Mountains 70.3. On a positive note, I was able to pick-up where I left off in the pool after 2 months off. My fear was that I would be starting from scratch, but I really …