In February of 2007, as I was very contentedly leading my Wednesday morning spin class, RacerMate Inc. of Seattle, WA called and left word that they would like to hire my services to produce a new line of software products to augment their world famous indoor bicycle ergometer, the CompuTrainer. The idea was to film high profile triathlon courses, add their proprietary codes that activate load generation so that while you, as the rider, cruise along a bike course, you would not only feel the changes in topography, but SEE them as well. The whole indoor training enchilada one might say. And I said, si, you bet.

And so almost overnight I became, TA DA, RCVman. Real Course Video man. And the journey began. Was in California for the 2007 ToC, Lanzarote, Switzerland, England, Canada, US Virgin Islands, Idaho, Wisconsin, Arizona, Baja, Mexico, Lake Placid, NY, Newfoundland, Hawaii, and on and on. It was a blast. So far we have released two RCVs (CDA and Kona) with all the rest in the works. As we sit here on the last REAL cold week of 2008, we are gearing up for the 2008 filming season, which looks to be starting in Australia and South Africa next month. So here we go again.

We all thought (that would be two people) it would be interesting to document the action and adventure that takes place in the process of producing the RCVs, so this is the spot for the 2008 blogging of RCVman. Could be fun.