“You’re killing your children…”

Words from Chef Jamie Oliver to a mother after reviewing what she was feeding her children every week.
If you’re a parent, you should watch this. I’m not sure what we can do to change this on level that it needs to be changed. I’ll leave that up to people smarter than me. However, we can [...]

On parenting

I totally swiped this from Steve Ilg’s blog, InDirect Lines (http://indirectlines.blogspot.com). Fantastic advice.
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“If you look to your children
to provide meaning for your life,
your life will be meaningless.
If you need them to be successful
to feel successful yourself,
you will always fail.”
- William Martin, verse 44 of, The Parent’s Tao Te Ching
¶”Your children were not born
to complete your [...]

The podium has been reached

Well, I finally did it. I stepped onto my first triathlon podium this past weekend. And, I had some company, thanks to the speed and determination of my daughter Amanda. Together, we captured the top honors at a local event known as the Splash-’n-Dash: a 150-meter swim followed by a 1 mile run. As parent-child team, you must compete side-by-side…and that we did.

Training with the munchkins

Cheers to triathlete and winter quad heroine Jane, aka, the Dread Pirate Rackham, for her outstanding post on finding the balance between being a mom and a triathlete . Definitely worth five minutes of your time to read if you’re a parent.

Calling All Bike Wrenchers!

Santa and I are working to upgrade this budding triathlete’s pony:

Unfortunately, we’re not having much luck on eBay or any of the other online sites. Being a cheapskate, I don’t want to pay $700+ for a new bike that this 10-year-old will outgrow in a year. At this point it looks like I may [...]

RACE REPORT: Clark County Junior Triathlon

Amanda rarin’ to go moments before the start of her first official solo triathlon.
Las Vegas is starting to grow up and become more than a cultural mecca for those New Yorkers and Los Angelinos willing to part with a few hundred brain cells and a few thousand dollars in our multitude of casinos. We are [...]

Good News from BlogRush

More good news on the BlogRush front.
1) They’re adding new colors so the widget will be better integrated into your blog’s design.
2) They’re adding a new “Fitness” category! It’s only a matter of time before we can get a triathlon or endurance sports category.
If you have a multisport or fitness blog and haven’t signed [...]

Fathers & Daughters

Sorry about the site being down again over the weekend. I’ve run into another server snag which I believe we have finally resolved. Apparently the stats tracking for this site exploded again and are eating up all of my server space. That should be worked out by now.
That hasn’t given me much time to finish [...]

Merry Labor Day

In the spirit of Labor Day, I will be laboring on comprehending coefficients from the binomial theorem (who thinks up this shit?) and prepping for a chemistry quiz on concentration rates.
I still can’t figure out why an English major would want to go back and subject himself to this insanity. I guess it falls [...]

In Rochester

I’ve been off the Net for a couple of days and wasn’t able to get some of my weekend articles posted.That’s life on the road and in the big city of Rochester, New York.
I’ve been here since Friday visiting my wife’s homeland and enjoying the humid, but refreshingly less-than-115-degree weather here. It’s so great to [...]