The Leadman. Five events. Two hundred and eighty-two point four miles spread over five events in Leadville Colorado. Starting elevation, 10,000+ feet above sea level.
7/2/11 Leadville Marathon, 26.2 miles reaching an elevation over 13,000 feet.
7/16/11 Leadville Silver Rush 50-miler. I have a choice here, 50 miles of mountain biking or 50 miles of trail running. Oh joy.
8/13/11 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race. Low point 9,200 feet; High point 12,424 feet.
8/14/11 LT100 10k. The next morning after the LT 100 MtB Race I've got to get up and run a 10k. It will be my last run before...
8/20/11 Leadville Trail 100-mile Run. The original Race Across the Sky. The type of race that when you sign up for it, you ask yourself "What the heck is wrong with me?" and I'll be doing it just one week after doing a 100 mile mountain bike race.
What the heck is wrong with me?
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Leadville and the future
It's been, as usual, too long since I last posted. Since my last post I've found myself working more hours than I could handle and decided to put Leadville off until next year. It's a bummer, but it was the right call. Now I'll have more time to train and prepare for what will be a pretty epic challenge for me.I'm also kicking around the idea of doing my second iron distance race next fall. What race that will exactly be is still up in the air, but I have a few in mind.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Short update
I don't really have anything intersting to add, but it's beeen a few days so I thought I should post really quick. I've been running a lot (shocker!) and just focusing on getting my body adapted to doing a whole truckload of miles.
I did get a new Camelback which I'm kind of excited about. 2 liters and with enough storage space for a shirt and pants for my runs to and from work. I have a long commute by bus to work and being able to blog from my Palm Prē has me confident that I'll be blogging more often, though hopefully with more to say that today.
I did get a new Camelback which I'm kind of excited about. 2 liters and with enough storage space for a shirt and pants for my runs to and from work. I have a long commute by bus to work and being able to blog from my Palm Prē has me confident that I'll be blogging more often, though hopefully with more to say that today.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Leadville
Hey, what have we here..... A blog entry? Go figure.
It's been a long time since I last posted, for a variety of reasons, some importan and some not. All that really matters though is that I'm back, I'm refocused on rrunning in particular and training in general and I have a new goal... The Leadville 1@@ Trail Run.
For anyone not familiar with this race, it's pretty much what the name says, a 100 mile trail run in Leadville, Colorado.
I'm still going to do some triathlon training and I have an Ironman in mind, but a 100 miler is one of those things I'd really like to test myself against I've been training for it for a while, with an occasional hiccup due to illness or overload at work, but now I'm finally ready to commit to it.
It's been a long time since I last posted, for a variety of reasons, some importan and some not. All that really matters though is that I'm back, I'm refocused on rrunning in particular and training in general and I have a new goal... The Leadville 1@@ Trail Run.
For anyone not familiar with this race, it's pretty much what the name says, a 100 mile trail run in Leadville, Colorado.
I'm still going to do some triathlon training and I have an Ironman in mind, but a 100 miler is one of those things I'd really like to test myself against I've been training for it for a while, with an occasional hiccup due to illness or overload at work, but now I'm finally ready to commit to it.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Monday, October 12, 2009
Flatirons
foothills
dark shadow in the frozen mist
reborn in frost
swaddled in snow
stark black on white
haunting the horizon
fading into winter's sky
dark shadow in the frozen mist
reborn in frost
swaddled in snow
stark black on white
haunting the horizon
fading into winter's sky
Sunday, October 04, 2009
AIA Convention 2009 Videos
The AIA webcast and recorded 14 sessions which can be viewed online for AIA CEU's and which are also eligible for IDP credit.
The 14 sessions are good for 16.5 AIA Learning Units which almost covers the annual requirement. It's also good for just over 4 IDP units.
A few notes:
First, a warning! In BSF101 - The lecturer presents some interesting perspectives and information. However, Greenpeace refutes his claim as a Co-Founder (rather he was a founding member). He's also a paid consultant/advocate for the forestry, nuclear and PVC industries, among others. While his criticism of LEED being influenced by industry groups, his failure to disclose his own industry ties is incredibly hypocritical. Some of the complaints and points he makes are just plain ridiculous as well and he glosses over a LOT of the drawbacks to the technologies he espouses.
The sessions on dealing with the downturn can be kind of boring, but there's a lot of really great information in them.
The quiz for the ADA session gets FAR more specific with its questions than the other session quizzes do. It's not too hard, but it is significantly different from the more general quizzes for the other sessions.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Some general advice
First of all, the job hunt comes first. Your job is to find a job. I know it's cliche, but it's cliche because it's true. I'm not going to cover the job hunt stuff much, but with all the IDP, NCARB and ARE stuff, as we work our way through it, it's vital to remember that the job hunt comes first, no matter what.
- Get out of the house. I can't emphasize that enough. Treat your day as if you were going to work. Shave, shower, wear clothes you wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen in and go out and do your work someplace other than home. Coffee shops and book stores are great, libraries are even better (nobody giving you a dirty look for nursing your $6 cup of coffee for 7 hours).
- Get organized and set a schedule. Have a plan for each day and stick to that plan just as you would to a planned workday. Don't get into a rut though, always look for new stuff.
- Diversify. If you spend 10 hours a day every day of the week job hunting you'll drive yourself nuts. The job hunt is priority #1, but don't burn yourself out on it or you'll end up miserable and pessimistic about ever finding a job.
- Examine your weaknesses and use this time to improve on them. I recently spoke with my old project manager and asked him for a post-employment performance review. I told him what areas I was already working on and asked for additional advice. His feedback was very positive and gave me a few ideas of things to work on.
- Set goals. Yes, Goal #1 is Get A Job!... but set other goals with firm deadlines and measures. i.e. Get LEED certified by November, take the ARE Site Planning exam on 11/3, etc. Meeting those goals will leave you with a sense of progress and acomplishment even if you don't manage to find a job in that period.
I have a schedule laid out for my week and a routine I follow. I have a list of sites and resources I go through each day for my job hunt. Once I've finished that, which usually take about 2-4 hours, depending on how many jobs are posted and which sites post them, I work on the couple independent design projects I have for a couple hours, then I move on to IDP programs, Revit training/exploration (which also works into the independent projects) and some smaller projects, such as this blog. If my day rolls along well, I may be going from 9 am to 7 or 8 pm or even later if I'm really caught up in what I'm doing. I never spend less than 8 hours in a day "working". Barring some sort of major disruption of course.
- Get out of the house. I can't emphasize that enough. Treat your day as if you were going to work. Shave, shower, wear clothes you wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen in and go out and do your work someplace other than home. Coffee shops and book stores are great, libraries are even better (nobody giving you a dirty look for nursing your $6 cup of coffee for 7 hours).
- Get organized and set a schedule. Have a plan for each day and stick to that plan just as you would to a planned workday. Don't get into a rut though, always look for new stuff.
- Diversify. If you spend 10 hours a day every day of the week job hunting you'll drive yourself nuts. The job hunt is priority #1, but don't burn yourself out on it or you'll end up miserable and pessimistic about ever finding a job.
- Examine your weaknesses and use this time to improve on them. I recently spoke with my old project manager and asked him for a post-employment performance review. I told him what areas I was already working on and asked for additional advice. His feedback was very positive and gave me a few ideas of things to work on.
- Set goals. Yes, Goal #1 is Get A Job!... but set other goals with firm deadlines and measures. i.e. Get LEED certified by November, take the ARE Site Planning exam on 11/3, etc. Meeting those goals will leave you with a sense of progress and acomplishment even if you don't manage to find a job in that period.
I have a schedule laid out for my week and a routine I follow. I have a list of sites and resources I go through each day for my job hunt. Once I've finished that, which usually take about 2-4 hours, depending on how many jobs are posted and which sites post them, I work on the couple independent design projects I have for a couple hours, then I move on to IDP programs, Revit training/exploration (which also works into the independent projects) and some smaller projects, such as this blog. If my day rolls along well, I may be going from 9 am to 7 or 8 pm or even later if I'm really caught up in what I'm doing. I never spend less than 8 hours in a day "working". Barring some sort of major disruption of course.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Next Steps
I've found myself thinking a lot about what my next step (or series of steps) is going to be as far as my athletic endeavors and I've come up with a few answers, some more solid than others.
First of all, I'm going to shift my focus to running for a while. I'm not abandoning triathlon (as will be clear later) but more than anything else, I am a runner. It's where I find the greatest joy, the greatest release. It's what gives me the highest of highs and where I most find out who I am. Plus I want to chop a chunk of time off that 5+ hour marathon I did at the IDT!
To that end, I'm setting the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon (Heck of a long name, eh?) as my next major race. The race is January 17th in Tempe, Arizona and should provide a great training goal fr the coming months.
Secondly, I'm tentatively setting the 2010 Great Floridian Triathlon as my second major goal race for 2010. The Great Floridian is an iron distance event in Clermont, FL held every October/November. It was also the leading contender for my first ironman race before the Plymouth IDT was introduced.
I'm setting this as a tentative goal because it's been a very unpredictable year and there are a lot of things in my life that are up in the air right now and I want to keep that in mind as I set these goals. if things don't go as I hope, then I may push off my next ironman until 2011 and just focus on getting faster this coming year. For now though, it's on!
First of all, I'm going to shift my focus to running for a while. I'm not abandoning triathlon (as will be clear later) but more than anything else, I am a runner. It's where I find the greatest joy, the greatest release. It's what gives me the highest of highs and where I most find out who I am. Plus I want to chop a chunk of time off that 5+ hour marathon I did at the IDT!
To that end, I'm setting the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon (Heck of a long name, eh?) as my next major race. The race is January 17th in Tempe, Arizona and should provide a great training goal fr the coming months.
Secondly, I'm tentatively setting the 2010 Great Floridian Triathlon as my second major goal race for 2010. The Great Floridian is an iron distance event in Clermont, FL held every October/November. It was also the leading contender for my first ironman race before the Plymouth IDT was introduced.
I'm setting this as a tentative goal because it's been a very unpredictable year and there are a lot of things in my life that are up in the air right now and I want to keep that in mind as I set these goals. if things don't go as I hope, then I may push off my next ironman until 2011 and just focus on getting faster this coming year. For now though, it's on!
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