Besides eating healthier, eating whole foods is cheaper than the prepackaged crap in the frozen food aisle. Avoid Frozen and Prepackaged Meals Prepackaged foods require alot more resources to create, package and ship which raised the price and also wastes gas and contributes more CO2 into the sky. I have also noticed that we have …
Jul 12
Hills du Jour
Sitting here watching the Tour de France while Cadel Evans is flying up beyond category(HC for Hors Category) mountain climbs puts my evening ride into perspective. Nonetheless I thought my hill ride tonight was rather challenging with a 3rd and 4th category climb. This week has been chock full of some high intensity training and …
Jul 12
Random iPhone Pictures from the Amalfi Coast
While scanning through some of my iPhone pictures, I noticed a bunch of pics from our Italy trip. Most of them were of food(Actually Pizza and Wine) since I always have this urge to take pictures of my meals before I eat. Anyway, I thought I would share them… [nggallery id=1]
Jul 10
How To Race Ironman Lake Placid from BeyondTransition
Here is a BeyondTransition post on how to race IMLP. It is always good to have multiple perspectives from others on a course. This post also touches on the initial climb from the ski jumps to Van Hoevenberg, which tends to be glossed over many times and can have an effect on your outcome. http://beyondtransition.com/how-to-race-ironman-lake-placid/
Jul 08
LSD….Hallucinogenic or Long, Slow Distance?
One of the side effects of being an endurance athlete is that you have many long hours to just think about stuff. So many ideas float through my head on my swims, rides and runs that seem so brilliant at the time. When I get done I either forget them or they just don’t seem …
Jul 06
4th of July-Lap Swimming Adventures at the Community Pool
My typical weeknight rides always take me past our local community pool. On Tuesday night(July 3rd) I had noticed that they had a lap lane setup on the side closest to the diving area. I thought “sweet” I can run down there tomorrow and do my normal Wed swim, since the Rodale Aquatic Center pool …
Jul 05
Cha…Cha…Cha…Chia… Pudding Recipe
No I didn’t eat my Chia Pet! Tried this recipe out for breakfast the other morning. Was really good and satisfied me until lunch which is amazing. Check it out over at New Nostalgia… New Nostalgia: Anytime Chia Pudding.
Jul 03
Raw, Vegan Blueberry Ginger Ice Cream
Haven’t tried this on yet, but posting it for later use… http://www.choosingraw.com/raw-vegan-blueberry-ginger-ice-cream/ Sent from my iPad
Jul 02
June 25-July 1st – Recovery Week in Review
First off is that I have migrated over to a new WordPress host this week. I kept running into things that I wanted to do that I could not with the free WordPress.com hosting, so I moved over to a custom hosting site. Migration was pretty seamless. I just have to tweak a few things. …
Jun 30
Grilled Veggie Pizza
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/1749?sf4831525=1 Thanks, Brian Sent from iPhone 4S