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

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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 :)

A Four Dog Night...

Usually you can tell how cold it is outside while you are camping by counting the dogs that someone is sleeping with, the colder the night the more dogs. Well this is NOT the case I am dog sitting right now and all I have to say is, try not to fall asleep with your door open! :)

Houston... There is Not a Problem...

Here are a few pics from my trip to Houston:

Above is a pic from the restaurant that I ate at:
This is the entrance of The Woodlands Healthcare Center:
This is one of the patios at The Woodlands:
I had a long lunch so I did some walking around this is a bridge/building shot:
I like this one because of the reflection of my feet walking by:
I originally had a Dodge Neon, but they ran out so I got a free upgrade ;)
The entrance of The Woodlands:
This is my Sager shot: "It ain't the TdG...but then I am not Tommy D."
In the air: I love morning flights because of the sun rise...
I of course had to check out a few Houston bike shops ;) We know that Jeef love's the wheel set!

Jet Lag...

A-Ron this is not another week post till I update again! I was just out of town and in Houston your favorite city. I just landed last night and I had to work Saturday and Sunday before I left on Monday :) I have some pics, and I'll update later but have no worries I have PLENTY of pics to put up! :)

Race to Replace...

I guess I am sad and happy at the same time to hear news like this, the point of this is to find an American to attempt to replace Lance Armstrong in the Tour De France. I am sad because this means that they are not considering good ol' George Hincapie who in my opinion truly deserves the attempt... although after his crash I can see their point ;) I am happy beacuse I am glad that Lance still wants the sport to live on, even though he is not racing it anymore. The sport only becomes popular when you have an American on the podium.

You can check out the whole story here:

http://team.discovery.com/racetoreplace/about.html

Easter (recap)

I hope that everyone had a good Easter weekend, for me I know it feels like it went by too fast. I did the Sunday ride but there were not too many people out there... I rode with the team on the way out and then I couldn't keep up "again" and I had to ride home by myself. I then went over to my families house and "participated" in an easter egg hunt haha :)

For some reason there were a lot of cyclists at Carl's Jr instead of BK? I still don't know what that was about...

This shot is a reflection off of my car, where did the camera go?

Art?

How do you define art? I guess it all has to do with the eye of the beholder, I actually like this tag and I always see it after I leave a certain Dr's office. Well today I was with a friend and as I drove by I took the shot :)

I see this sign on my way home after work, and this is J Leno ready!

You tell me what's wrong with this sign??? :)

Sore Legs...

I showed up for the Sunday ride and it seemed like most of the "Rio Cyling" team wasn't there? I think that I heard they went to a race? Not to0 sure about this, but maybe I am just getting used to those guys. On the way out it was against the wind for a change and on the way back it was with the wind... so on the way back I guess I felt kind of good and just decided to go ahead right after the over pass on Brian Rd. I had almost a 2 block lead on everyone else and I was holding 25 on my own thinking, yeah... it'll be awhile before they catch me. I look down and all I see when I look up are 4 guys flying past me like I was standing still! I had to pick it up to 31.5 just to catch their wheels. After that was just attack after attack after attack. I guess I was lucky to still even be there...

Talk about attention to detail, This is Oscars bike

has anyone seen a missing red bike? contact (555) 555.5555
And someone I hadn't seen in awhile Manny in the HealthNet uniform actually held more than his own out there on the Sunday ride ;)
So Needless to say... today I have sore legs :)

Some People...

are regular bloggers, and there are photobloggers... I figure that I am a complete total photoblogger and I do some video too. I am going to do what Sager calls' a photodump ;) Of course all these pics are photoshop edited.

For SOME crazy reason this kid was standing behind me while I was talking outside of my job... so I took a pic ;)

This is a new chair that I have in my computer room, it's actually pretty comfortable :)
This shot was taken by a co-worker, I was probably thinking about riding my bike after I get out of work! :)

What Goes around come around?

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people in life... haha this video might explain a little more, but this is the old hit the person on a bike with the door to knock them down prank.

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