Category Archives: Random Thoughts

This week is a rest week, so I’m pretty much sleeping as much as I can, doing maintenance workouts, and getting caught up on schoolwork.I dreamt that I was hiking through the jungle and being attacked by mosquitos. I woke up several times to roll over, wondering why I was so itchy. I figured it was dry skin from the chlorine, but around 7am I awoke to see that my dear kitty was long gone, but had left a trail of dirt and grime from the floor to my pillow to the side of my bed, and where that trail ended there was a pile of cat puke.

There is a lot of snobbery in sports when it comes to attire. Tennis and Golf are the most obvious examples of this (polo shirts, pleated skirts, and ugly plaid pants), but anyone who’s ridden a road bike on the trail with sweat pants and a cotton t-shirt knows "the look". "The look is usually […]

Herriott Sports Performance is in on the front page of the Seattle PI today! That’s right, not the sports section, not the business section, the FRONT PAGE!!  That’s pretty cool. The article is about how cycling is the new golf among business professionals. Check it our here. Heads Up: I’ll be at Mason Lake #3 […]

 Chris Lieto, (3 time Ironman Champion, 7th at Kona last year after leading the race for 6 hours, plus a father of one (soon to be two)  – what’s your excuse?) was in Seattle for two days to visit Peter and William at the Institute of New Medicine (inewmed). He stayed with my family for […]

I just realized that all the comments from the last week have been sitting in my inbox waiting for approval. Not sure how that happened, but they’re all up now.

(which really means I’m feeling a lack of creativity with the titling part of my brain.) This weekend has a lot happening. Tomorrow is the Mason Lake Road Race #2 (there are three). I decided last night to skip it, however, in favor of going to the "Tour De Dung". I hear it’s a better […]

Check out Peggy‘s finish video here (skip ahead to 1:51:25). She looks pretty happy. back again, this time from the top west of the south island.  the race?  another notable event due to weather.  in sun: i did it, finished, got the slot to kona, am well pleased. imnz started perfectly with a calm lake […]

Here’s what I think of rest days: they stink. Typically, I wake up about 15 minutes later than I would if I had set an alarm. Eat breakfast, study for a bit, then I tackle the errands that have been put off. Inevitably the day disappears before I get half of things done that I […]

I did a cycling race today. It was the Mason Lake Road Race on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. I went down with Brian Davis and his wife Marijana. This was Brian’s first road race, and my second, so we were both entered in the Cat 5 group.  Marijana and I have had our differences in the […]

I received an email from my friend Peggy, the Grand Masters triathlete from Santa Barbara who kicked butt at her seventh Kona Ironman last year. She didn’t send pictures because her kids have yet to teach her how to use a digital camera, but I thought this story was pretty funny.

“hi, from new zealand again.  i’m down here getting ready to do the ironman on saturday.  as i write this thursday morning, it’s early afternoon wednesday for you on pacific time. 
” i got down here sunday and did the usual: got a car, meandered down, came to the same low-key lodging about four blocks up from the race site.  all is well.