May 30, 2005
Following up on my posts about wearing a watch that monitors my exercise, and another to monitor my sleep, Bodymedia has a watch to monitor the rest of my life.
The bodybugg⢠(note the aggressively lowercased trademark) monitors your motion, heat flux, galvanic skin response, skin temperature and near body temperature (not sure how heat flux [...]
May 26, 2005
Trigeek alert!
You have a watch that records all of your speed, distance and heart rate while you are training.
Now you can have a watch that records all your motions while you are sleeping.
The Sleeptracker watch contains an accelerometer that detects your motion during the night and indicates your “almost awake” moments for your review.
They [...]
May 21, 2005
What were Matt Bauer and Kelley Koehler thinking? Here are the first three sentences in an article titled “Acknowledging Gender in Triathlon.”
Triathlon is a rapidly growing sport with the United States of America Triathlon (USAT) association growing by 37% and a majority of that growth are women. In 2003 women comprised 35% of [...]
May 16, 2005
I use a Polar Heart Rate monitor that is capable of downloading workouts to computer using Polar Precision Software. Using the software it is possible to plot the heart rate as a function of time. It also shows elevation, temperature, and if using additional transmitters, bike speed, and with the S625x running pace.
My main [...]
February 21, 2005
Anne Martin Martin, 37, won the Surf Coast International Triathlon in Ballarat Australia. According to this article she began her career as a runner and came late to swimming and triathlon. Swimming is still her weakness, but apparently she is making progess.
There was a lot of swell on Saturday and quite choppy. Five years [...]
February 8, 2005
Completed Events
Date
Event
Time
Age Group Ranking
Apr 30
Wildflower Long Course
6:46:34
95/130
Events to Consider
Date
Event
Registration Starts
Registration Ends
Jun 25
San Jose Internation
Now
Jun 27
Ironman Coeur d’ Alene Registration
Nov 15
Dec 10
Jul 16
Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim
Now
Jul 31
Half Vineman
Registered
Goal 5:24:00
Aug 14
Escape from the Rock
Now
Aug 21
TriOne Olympic and Sprint
Now
Aug 29
Ironman Canada Registration
Aug 29
Aug 29
Sep 11
Big Kahuna Triathlon
Now
??
Sep 12
Ironman Wisconsin Registration
Sep 12
??
Sep 17
California Man Full and Half
Now
Oct 1
Scott [...]
February 5, 2005
I signed up for my first race of the season today. The oddly named Stanford Treeathlon.
The other oddity is that the 500 meter swim is about 4 laps of the perimeter of DeGuerre pool. It will be nice to go back to the pool where I became a swimmer.
It is February 21st.