Highlander this weekend and other stuff

I went to boston this weekend which was less then eventful as usual. I probably should have went to my alumni ultimate frisbee game. This could have been me!



Alas I went to Boston to see tom brady kill himself basically.



But this weekend should be fun and hard. 100 mile road ride, 11,000 feet of climbing and super amounts of pain in a bucket. I'm sure to be packing plenty of this:



But cross season starts soon!

Google chrome

So far this browser is easily one of the fastest browsers I've ever used. I've dabbled in pretty much every browser since Netscape, and was always stuck between Safari and Firefox. I recently went back to Firefox after I found some plugins I thought would be worth me switching over from Safari was. Well I've been using Chrome on my PC at work and to be honest this thing is blazing fast. Totally crushes IE. Tabs pulling is great, the clean simple look is definitely appreciated. I found the home page with all the history a bit of a nuisance, since i didn't want someone to check out my browsing, but Google has put in an "incognito" mode which basically hides everything from someone snooping your work. Safari was easily for me, one of the fastest browsing experiences to date, but this browser, even when opening saved images and finding locations is insanely fast. Additionally the idea of having each, page, and tab work under its own conditions is great! Crash a tab, or page, instead of a whole browser add ton of stability. I can manage a little extra memory usage for stability, god knows how many times firefox, IE, and even safari have crashed, leaving me filling out all my creditcard info for something I wanted to order. All I can say is when does the Mac version come out, cause I really need this thing on my mac.

Cool links about chrome:

Google cloud

Lifehacker browser speeds

Google chrome vs. MIcrosoft IE

Blk13

Blk13 alleycat. Was a good time. Only quam with the whole thing was the idea of a raffle. The more things you collected or the better placing you got let you get more raffle tickets towards a cannondale capo. Thats great and all but it kinda puts people off like myself who actually collect everything and race, when a random dude wins a bike that barely even did the race. To me thats kinda lame. But I'm not the organizer. Besides that I did have tons of fun. You can see me here winning the party.

Labor Yay Weekend.

This weekend could not come sooner. After having a light training week I am planning on gearing it up for the weekend. Tennis, BMX, 70 miles road ride, some cyclocross inbetween, an alleycat race, and some beer to top it off. Heres are some random pics for your enjoyment.

SUPREME BLOGGING SKILLS

Not sure if anyone even looks and probably doesn't. But ok I've been racing roadbikes, and will be doing cross again. That is pretty much it.

So as an update to my current standings and how I am doing in this endeavor to becoming the best of the worst, actually currently I'm the worst of the worst, about dead last in Cat 5 races. I am finishing, which says more then DNFing, basically the mortal sin of cycling, at least in my ambitious eyes. So i bought a bike waaaay too good for me and I know it, but hell I like nice stuff, and it was older, its an 06 specialized tarmac sl with full dura ace. Additionally I got a set of Ksyrium SL 08 wheels (Basically the old ES wheels). So obviously this is like a paraplegic getting into a 911 Porsche and attempting to seriously race it in a 2 fast 2 furious race. Additionally I got a used Fuji cyclocross bike with full ultegra. Again way beyond what I need, but considering I was racing on a 1980 Raleigh converted to a 1x8 with straight bars, I think this was well deserved. any person willing to race on bike like that a whole season earned an upgrade.

Speaking of upgrades. I have officially gone through the motions to attempt to upgrade my cross status from a 4 to a 3. I also tried to get out of cat 5 for road, but that is very unlikely. I am going to see how this goes for my upgrades. Maybe I can upgrade to the better of the worst.

So far so good.

Taking things slow and seeing where I end up. So far I have been keeping myself very busy but I will have a better understanding of whats going on with me next week. Keep your fingers crossed!

San Francisco

Is beautiful! Been talking to a lot of biotech companies here and things may turn another direction quickly! I'm excited and trying to make things happen out here. Who knows I may be able to be here permantely!