Kung Fu Lady

Every Hotel should have one of these...

Let's just say that it's hard to find a decent hotel on Memorial Weekend ;)

Memorial Weekend

I just came in last night from a loooong drive back from San Antonio, the weather was pretty bad and had to slow down A LOT! I will post some pics this week from this weekend. How did your weekend go?

Mt. Everest

If you don't want to read the article about the climbers I'll shorten it up for you... Bascially 40 climbers saw a "fellow" climber dying from lack of oxygen, they all felt that the mountain was more important and left him to die. Here's the article if you want to read more. "dying climber" so my point is here is that it's not just in cycling that we leave a weak man down!

Nike Plus iPod

I think that this concept is an idea in the making! :) Jeef sent me this link probably in Mochary but I feel that the concept is there, but at this time in the market that it might fail. I think that it would be hard for a runner to check your "stats" while the device is strapped to your arm, so you'll most likely have to WAIT till you get home to know exactly where you are at! :( and we all know that in this day and age that we want to know now!

http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/

Dance Evolution

www.IronGambit.blogspot.com

Express Yourself

Ok I have been thinking lately and recently realized the "new" word for the decade... well atleast in business it is Express ;) I'll give you a short recap of how my week went this weekend. I flew out for business and I sat next to the Dean of Business for STC. He asked what I did and where I was going... so I told him this.

This morning I woke up with an "espresso" to put on my "Express Suit" I then rode the ME or "McAllen Express" to get to the airport to fly on the "Continential Express," which I paid for with my "American Express" through e-mail on my "Outlook Express" after I landed in Lubbock, TX I checked into the "Holiday Inn Express" to discuss my company's new building "The Express Recovery Unit." And if I forgot anything in Lubbock, TX they said that they would mail it to me via "Federal Express"

Flight Out Tomorrow

Tomorrow morning I sail out or "fly out" to Lubbock, TX for work again. I will be gone up to Thursday late at night and will be back in the mix on Friday ;) I hope to have an eventful and productive trip. Did I mention that Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock,TX?

Graduation Weekend

Some very important people around me recently had their graduation from UTPA. "congrats! going off topic some of my guests showed me this new webpage and I found it to be very interesting... geocache.com I guess that you can go to the website to check it out and read more about it, but here is a quick review

You need:

• Internet
• GPS
• Good Shoes
• Flashlight "at night"
• Pen
• Trinquets

After you gather these tools then you look it up on the site and find the one's that you want to "search" for. Below are some pics from the hunt.

This last pic is of a Taco with a serial number on it! haha

Never Give Up...

I guess that even when you are in second place you should never give up... I don't know if I have posted this video before or not but I do know that I have seen it, either way check it out ;)

Nike Triax C8 HR Monitor

I guess it was time for me to finally give in and get a new watch. I ended up with this purchase and so far satisfied with with only one "test run" so far. It has a large display indiglo if you run/ride in the dark like me, it shows the HR at the top and the time at the bottom "good for intervals" and then it has the average HR being able to save a total of 50 laps, which I think already is too many since I most likely will reset it after each use since I have bikejournal and coolrunning depending on my exercise for the day. Oh yeah... and the price is pretty reasonable in my opinion. I have to thank Allez for pushing me to get the new HRM.

Lately I have been slacking off, because of everything that I am trying to balance with the full time job, and school full time. So I "think" that I will try to focus on running more right now since it is a "faster" workout. But we will see how that plays out! :)

Pedal to Padre Pics...

I am sure you can guess who "donated" these pics and NICE SHOTS ! :)

" Like father like son"
" THIS is the SHOT! "
Another good one! :)

Thanks Santi for that great pics and it looks like everyone had fun! but me :(

P2P

or Pedal to Padre... I did not attend this event for the first time ever since I began riding a bike. The first time I actually did this event was when my brother used to ride. Also there was A-Ron, Piojo, and some other guy that was able to keep up with us. Since there really were not that many people at the event we formed out own little "peleton" and left the P2P group, that day it was A-Ron that was the strongest but we still had to wait almost an hour before someone else actually showed up to keep us company. Today pedal to padre is one of the biggest events here in South Texas and has only been followed with success and a large attendance. I hope that those that did attend, had a lot of fun and maybe will post something about their experience! :)

On Friday I went to a backyard boxing match in Donna, that was pretty interesting and I actually had more fun than expected. The only reason I went was because a friend of mine gave me five reserved tickets. My cousin took some pics, so if he e-mails them to me I'll post them. ;)

Storm Season...

We all know that storm season is soon approaching us and is suppose to be worse than ever... here is my idea of Piojo and A-Ron STILL riding rain or shine! ;)

Horcycle...

this is a way to save gas... I saw this on halfbakery.com but I also felt that it was too funny NOT to share! :)

horcycle make a 4-weeled-bicycle for horses

Ok so the oil is running out. How are we going to get around? I suggest going back to horses, but in a totally different way!
The average running speed of a man is around 24km/hr. The average speed on a bike is double, at 50km/hr.
Horses can sustain 80km/hr. Imagine how fast they'd go on a bike! Well over the speed limit anyway. It would be so much more efficient than petrol motors.
There are a lot of technical and perhaps moral difficulties with this idea. However, I think it is possible to engineer any such machine if the problem is clearly defined; certain breeds of horses could learn to become quite comfortable with the device, especially if exposed from birth.
Technical problems - breaking, balance, gears, training the horse.
Moral problems - car crashes, comfort of horse, potential for animal abuse.
To me, these seem like the kinds of problems that can be overcome, and I've already got a few ideas, but I'd better stop now while it's still half-baked :)