CPU & Me

RCVman is feverishly working three Mac quad Intels this weekend in the hopes of getting caught up. The modern viodeo/news standard has been set and it is about speed. As in now. It has already been a month since Ironman St. George and three weeks since Alaska. We have done a thousand miles with the Tour of California and tried (with varying degrees of success) to maintain some measurable level of fitness through it all. During these rounds of intense effort as necessitated by the race calendar, life in the RCV fast lane (how we doing so far?) renders to this:

Fly to event
Logistics prep
Race day(s) shoot
Fly from event
Download video
Clean, charge, re-calibrate gear
Edit video
Run in park
Fly to next event

So you can see that there isn't the usual swim-bike-run-spin-stretch schedule in effect at this time. "R" is lucky if he gets in one or two runs a week to go with Wednesday's double spin. The last time he was in the water, it was 100 degrees and glistening girls slid strawberries from fancy flutes.

Now, please, dear VBA, don't be takin' this as a complaint, cause it ain't. It's just facts. I am very, VERY pleased with the ToC video. Calgary 70.3 is in its fifth day of render and we have fun stuff on the horizon.

Further, there is the distinct possibility that we might make a return to Boise in two weeks to, ahem, yes, actually race. With helmet-cam of course. So that would be fun. That way you can actually see, in HD, how slow we are these days.

And speaking of fun, pictured is Faris al Sultan celebrating his first win at Kona, and speaking of beer, we mourn the passing of rebel icon Dennis Hopper, who single-handedly took PBR to cult status, and speaking of style more on our on-going CompuTrainer fashion contest.

Keep those jpgs coming in folks. We'll find the CPUs somewhere.

The Faris photo is by Elizabeth Kreutz, who's terrific work with triathlets, cyclists and Olympians can been seen here.