Tag: general
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It Is Called Recreation For A Reason
Ok full disclosure, all too often I ride my bicycle with a few set objectives for the day. Usually a minimum distance along with certain amounts of time in various heart rate zones and/or power zones. Although I always enjoy my time on the bike (VO2 Max intervals not withstanding) I don’t always take the…
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Research Match – Why You Should Care to Participate
If you are reading this you are already an excellent candidate for Research Match, you are alive. Alright, jokes aside let me tell you a bit about my experience with Research Match and why I was driven to participate. For years I have been a keen student of physical fitness, sport, and sports medicine. It probably…
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Some Days You’re The Lead Dog And Others You’re the Mutt
No offense to mutts, I have yet to meet a dog I didn’t like. My analogy refers to sports performance and my Friday Coffee Ride crew was kind to pull me along on what turned out to be an off day. Oh the day started off great with some wonderful news from the work side…
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The Joys Of A Good Book
I don’t know about you but I truly enjoy reading a good book. My wife and family members have heard me many times talking about my latest page burner, thriller, can’t put it down read that is my current obsession. Well, obsession perhaps a bit strong. Let’s call it my go to when there is…
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One More Thing Before You Go
All too often one day becomes very much like another. We move through our routine from waking in the morning to preparing to go the sleep in the evening (assuming you have a daytime/daylight-based life/work arrangement) and if we don’t take the time to reflect back, inspect the nuances of the day it just slips…
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What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
I write this on a Saturday afternoon with 2 big One Dollar lottery tickets in the kitchen drawer. These for the California Super Lotto now sitting at a whopping $13,000,000. Yes that is thirteen million. Before Federal taxes. Technically the lump sum payout before taxes is probably around 5.9 million. So net after tax is…
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Why Do I Keep My Bikes So Clean?
Simple answer: clean bikes are Faster! Seriously they are, go ahead and factcheck me. What you will find is the improvement in aerodynamics and slightly better rolling resistance is quite significant at pro peloton and velodrome speeds. A lot less so for most of us out for a weekend ride. However even a 3 to…
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Getting Good at Writing in Notes
This Website wasn’t intended to be quite as active of a Blog as it has become. At least so far, let’s not jinx it Jack! What I find surprising is how often I turn to capturing notes, ideas, thought streams using my iPhone’s Notes app. It is usually close by, almost always on, and rather…
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AI Blog Writing, You Have to be Kidding Me
Seriously folks, there are now services that will use an AI to write all of your blog posts for you. And if that isn’t enough they will even provide you with a few daily prompts to get your thoughts organized. That’s about all you need to do. Create a few bullet points, all you PowerPoint…
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