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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Red Hills Results
1:21:48
28th/258 overall
3rd in my age group
4th for FSU
10:03 swim (1/3 mi)
1:37 T1 (with wetsuit)
47:50 bike (16 mi)
1:09 T2
21:08 run (5k)
I would have placed 4th in the collegiate division, but they somehow had me down as an age grouper. I took all the turns on the bike really slowly since it was wet and I am still a little skittish of right hand turns. I felt like I was going 3mph on the bike (I averaged only about 20mph) and didn't totally rock out the hills. There weren't many people in front of me and that was pretty awesome. When I came in to T2, there were hardly any bikes racked. I had to stop during the first quarter mile of the 5k to stretch my calf muscles. That made me lose some dude in a UF jersey :(. Overall, I didn't go as much faster than last year as I wanted (I was looking for a 1:18 time) but the course was slow for everybody. Results are up at the Red Hills Triathlon website.
28th/258 overall
3rd in my age group
4th for FSU
10:03 swim (1/3 mi)
1:37 T1 (with wetsuit)
47:50 bike (16 mi)
1:09 T2
21:08 run (5k)
I would have placed 4th in the collegiate division, but they somehow had me down as an age grouper. I took all the turns on the bike really slowly since it was wet and I am still a little skittish of right hand turns. I felt like I was going 3mph on the bike (I averaged only about 20mph) and didn't totally rock out the hills. There weren't many people in front of me and that was pretty awesome. When I came in to T2, there were hardly any bikes racked. I had to stop during the first quarter mile of the 5k to stretch my calf muscles. That made me lose some dude in a UF jersey :(. Overall, I didn't go as much faster than last year as I wanted (I was looking for a 1:18 time) but the course was slow for everybody. Results are up at the Red Hills Triathlon website.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Error: Title Does Not Uniquely Identify Blog
I ran a Google search for "Blah Blah Blog" and it returned about 287,000 results. I came up with the name all on my own. I wonder how many of the others did versus how many of them were copycats. Mine isn't even on the first 16 pages of the Google results. I quit searching. Maybe it has something to do with my relatively low readership.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
New Fridge
My brother brought a fridge leftover from my Uncle's house when he came to visit me. I cleaned it up and replaced my old fridge with it. The only problem is that the ice maker in the new fridge didn't work. We looked at it and tried to troubleshoot. We deduced that the only thing broken is the ejector (the plastic piece that spins around and spits the frozen cubes out of the mold). Unfortunately, it's an electronic ice maker and neither of us knows how to fix crap on a circuit board. That means I had to get a new ice maker. The ice maker alone was $163 or I could get a kit that has everything you need to install an ice maker in a fridge that doesn't already have one for $103. WTF? I bought the kit. Now it makes ice. I need to get rid of my old fridge...do you need one? Let me know.
Fair Tax
I'm writing a paper right now, the topic of which is Taxation in Theory and in Practice. I decided to write on the Fair Tax. Over the course of reading up on it, I think it's a cool idea that won't get the support of any politicians. If the citizens want it, they're going to have to band together and demand it.
Basically, the Fair Tax is a 23% sales tax on all new goods and services which will replace all other Federal taxes. Note: you don't pay any tax on used goods (or used services???). The website will be more than happy to give you a laundry list of the benefits the Fair Tax will give our country. I read a good portion of the material on the website and decided to put my name on the petition to give "full consideration and debate on the floor of the House of Representatives and Senate" to the Fair Tax legislation. They need 100,000 signatures on the petition and currently have about 70,000. I don't think they'll reach their goal by April 15. Anyway, I figure that there's no good reason to keep it from being talked about on the floor of Congress.
Basically, the Fair Tax is a 23% sales tax on all new goods and services which will replace all other Federal taxes. Note: you don't pay any tax on used goods (or used services???). The website will be more than happy to give you a laundry list of the benefits the Fair Tax will give our country. I read a good portion of the material on the website and decided to put my name on the petition to give "full consideration and debate on the floor of the House of Representatives and Senate" to the Fair Tax legislation. They need 100,000 signatures on the petition and currently have about 70,000. I don't think they'll reach their goal by April 15. Anyway, I figure that there's no good reason to keep it from being talked about on the floor of Congress.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
New Tri Wetsuit
I got a Quintana Roo Ultrafull triathlon wetsuit from trisports.com. Size MS if you couldn't have guessed. Anyway, I took it out for a test (drive? run? swim.) today at the FSU Rez. I had to swim in the designated swim area. I busted the crap out of my right pinky on a dock that protruded from the boundary rope...I think they should move the rope in a little bit. Maybe I should learn to spot better.
Anyway, I felt really fast in the suit. I floated pretty easily. I even got my feet to poke out of the water in a lake! I practiced my entry/exit from the lake and those cool corkscrew 90° turns.
Anyway, I felt really fast in the suit. I floated pretty easily. I even got my feet to poke out of the water in a lake! I practiced my entry/exit from the lake and those cool corkscrew 90° turns.
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