July 14

• Happy Bastille Day tout le monde. Celebrate your inner Frenchieness with some pommes frites or freedom fries. As you wish.
• I'm off today to Vancouver for 2 days, then I'm off to Boston on a red-eye Thursday to almost start my week off next week.
  

July 10

• Today I joined mapmyrun.com - apparently you can post your workout route like this one I did today. It was a bike ride on the new bike, not a run :). After wolfing down lunch in Sausalito around mile 34, my legs were S H O T.
• Mapmyrun.com is a free, very web 2.0 cool. Search for friends, rate routes, map a new run/bike/walk/dog walk/kayak/canoe, and have your own training log. Best of all, you can see how many calories you burned. Today: 1500 calories on the 42 mile loop! I'd heard about it from friends and decided to check it out. Give it a whirl
  
  It took about 4.5 hours, including lunch.
  

July 8

• I think I have a new favorite pastime in San Francisco. I bought a road bike about 2 weeks ago from EndurancePTC...a cycling training center based in San Francisco and Marin. Now that I've ridden the bike 3 times (going strong I know) I am really liking it. Today I went to check out one of their ecycling classes. These are indoor 90 minute sessions, where you bring your own bike and hook it up to a computer indoors, and ride like the wind to crazy music. (I loved the music, not sure if the older gents enjoyed Prodigy or Foo Fighters as much as I did). I am happy to say I survived the class, and I'm totally hooked. Maybe it was watching the Tour de France live on the 8ft projector screen behind our instructor. It reminds me a lot of rowing on the erg - you're just a little more haunched over on the bike.
  
• Speaking of bikes, this weekend is the Donner Lake Triathlon I'm doing. I feel ready after jamming in so much last weekend. This ride today helped also. Now it's just relax, and try not to injure myself crossing the street or the like before Sunday. I'll be camping up at Donner Lake Memorial State Park, along with Jessica who's doing it again with me (we attempted 2 years ago together), and a relay team consisting of my bf and 2 friends. We'll also have 3 cheerleaders/waterboys camping with us, including recent NYC transplant Maria, who moved here last week!