January 2007

January 2007


Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Who's MY Candidate??
I've been following the 2008 elections pretty closely. I usually have a mild interest in politics, but this is really going to be a huge huge year. For giggles, I tried the "Candidate Matchmaker" to see who best I should match with. It didn't reflect on the cadidates I'm actually leaning to (not even the right party), but was intresting none the less.
I would however, like to strongly suggest that to those of you whom are of voting age, DO SO. There is NO REASON a person with the right to vote, shouldn't. I'm not even asking you to vote for my candidate, I'm simply asking you VOTE. It is your right and a responsibility. Please folks, get out there and
VOTE


or http://wdaf.4wmt.com/cmm/
posted @ 1/30/2008 9:32:52 AM (0) Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008
Time Doesn't Stop

I've found lots of interesting things today. Here's one that stuck me good. Stuck me real good.
From Chuckie Veylupek's blog today
www.chuckiev.blogspot.com/
" To you young triathletes out there with big dreams:on those rainy days, don't follow in my footsteps. There was too much trepidation in each of them.Covet the chance to be your best, because as all us has-beens can tell you,the clock moves faster than even the weather. "
posted @ 1/25/2008 11:35:17 AM (0) Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008
The Week the Women Left


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Back to Story - Help
Women leave town and children in hands of men
By Julie GordonThu Jan 24, 8:49 PM ET
What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home?
"It will be a disaster, a complete disaster," said Kelly Weatherly, who was sent off for a week at a resort, along with almost all the women in her community of 760, leaving the town and its children in the hands of the men.
The exodus was part of a social experiment filmed for Canada's national broadcaster, the CBC. Touted as an exploration of gender issues in contemporary Canadian culture, "The Week the Women Went" is based on a BBC program by the same name.
Recent government statistics show that 70 percent of Canadian households are run by women. The majority of these women also hold full-time jobs.
In Hardisty, an oil-patch town in the prairie province of Alberta where the program was shot, many of the men work away from home for days at a time.
"They don't get to hang out with Daddy," said stay-at-home mother Heather Miller of her two young sons in the first episode. "I don't even know if he's had them for a whole day."
While Miller worried about her husband Dustin's ability to cope without her, he didn't share her concern.
"Two people to take care of, both under the age of five," he said. "How hard can it be?"
Dustin Miller's comments may come off as misguided, but for some of the local men good planning made the process easy.
"It wasn't that much of an ordeal," said town administrator, and father of three, Tony Kulbisky. "We just pre-planned everything, or tried to be as organized as we could be."
For the CBC's creative chief Kristine Layfield, making a reality program presented a unique challenge.
"Whenever we do these kinds of shows, we want to stir conversation," she said. "It's never exploitative ... it's always with a purpose to try to move people to talk about something after they watch the show."
And the show has sparked discussion. Local media called it "sexist" and debate online has been lively.
"What a misandric (man hating) idea for show," said a viewer identified as Andrew. "What is wrong with Canadian society that we need to continuously promote how important women are to society at the expense of men."
While show producer Sally Aitken is delighted with both the positive and negative reaction the program is getting. She said the best part is how the experience has changed the relationships of the participants.
For one commitment phobic man, who after ten years together, and three children, was still refusing to marry his girlfriend, the time apart prompted him to plan a surprise wedding.
While viewers will have to wait to see if the wedding goes off without a hitch, Kulbisky is certain of at least one thing.
"It's changed people. You can walk down the street now and you can say hi to people who you maybe never would have said hi to before," he said. "It's allowed the community to grow."
Reuters/Nielsen
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Friday, January 25, 2008
So I'm Getting Married, In Case You Haven't Heard
Do you have ANY IDEA how much work it takes to put on a wedding??
I thought it would be pretty simple, show up, say yes, party the night away.
But aparently you have to get PERMITS to serve booze, have an off duty popo, sign about a gajillion contracts with all of your vendors, primp, have pictures taken, balh blah blah.. and that's before you ever even get to the wedding.
Ugh. Somebody sign me up for a wedding planner. A free one. One that will pay for the wedding.

Anybody?

Nothing?

Ok, just don't let me be a Bridezilla.

posted @ 1/25/2008 6:16:51 AM (0) Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
::grunt:: Me Cavegirl, Me Eats Foods Like Neanderthal

If a caveman couldn't kill it or pick it, I ain't eatin' it.
http://www.thepaleodiet.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

as taken from Wikipedia:

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...EDIT:
Ok for whatever reason, this blog post was causing problems for my site, so I removed pretty much the whole thing.
SOrry~
posted @ 1/22/2008 1:50:41 PM (0) Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008
One for the Ladies: Flashback 1955

Dear Tiny, 6 lb 8oz, infant baby Jesus:
Never, ever let me act like these women. Give me the strength not to choke my (soon to be) husband if he tries to tell me to act like this. Also, please make sure he rubs and ices my sore muscles after every workout.
Amen.
posted @ 1/17/2008 8:56:55 AM (0) Comments
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Devil AKA The Body Comp Monitor

Around Christmas time Eric told me of these amazing scales. Better than ours, type scales. Scales that told you everything you ever needed to know except your exact date of death and next year’s property taxes. He told me I should be monitoring more closely things other than my weight. I told him he could do the same- because for whatever freak of nature reason that allows him to drink a six pack and then run 7 min miles will eventually just stop. He’ll get the belly too. I have named the belly Emma. That’s the sound my stomach makes when I’m hungry.
So, today I bought one of those fancy scales. You know the kind I’m talking about. It’s not just a spring with an arrow pointing to the number that so graphically exclaims “Way Too Heavy.” It’s a full on body and confidence assault machine. It tells you how much you weigh too much, your (supposedly) accurate body fat percentage pff, I really don’t even WANT to know that, your bone density, my body water percentage I’m bloated so yep, that’s up there, my daily caloric intake to maintain current weight or DCI Like 4kcal. I’m serious. I looked at chocolate at the check out today and I gained 4 lbs, and my metabolic age wait- I know this one. When I got my thyroid checked 2 yrs ago my dr. told me I have the metabolism of a 70 year old. Thanks.
It’s actually not a scale. It’s a Body Composition Monitor- their term, not mine. It was stupidly expensive. I walked into the store planning to pay $20. Ha! Even my broke-ass crappy scale at home was over $50. So, instead I trudged out after quintupling my original budget.
So, Mr. Body Composition Monitor, You better be good to me. Tell me daily that my weight is going down, that my BMI is shrinking and my muscle mass is increasing. Let me know that I can eat 12,000kcal a day and still lose weight. Basically, you over-priced-gimmick-that-I’m-mad-about-only-because-I-didn’t-realize-they-make-an-IronMan-Trademarked-version, LIE LIE LIE.
Ok, fine, you’re right. I don’t want you to lie. But at least if you’re going to be honest, tell no tales to myself, or the fiancé. After all, it does program two people.
posted @ 1/16/2008 12:07:50 PM (0) Comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Training Log: update
https://rogercortesi.com/athleticlog/view_others.php?selectuser=513
or https://rogercortesi.com/athleticlog/ search viewable logs: Crutcher
The link above is now the link for my training log. TriFuel was giving me difficulties in logging in, so I switched to their sister training log site.
www.fitday.com%2FWebFit%2FPublicJournals.html%3FOwner%3Dtriswimcoach
Also, to follow along with my training, you can check out how good (or bad) I'm eating!

posted @ 1/15/2008 11:28:36 AM (1) Comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Nutrition & Freedom of Choice- Borrowed from Chuckie V
I borrowed this article from Chuckie V. I'm not feeling very original lately, so here ya go. It's actually a two-parter.
http://chuckiev.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Nutritional Notes
Nutrition has always been a hot topic for endurance athletes. Over years of "refinement", I've found that it's the basics that work, and they work on a wide range (free range?) of athletes...I may edit this and repost it over time but the fundamentals hold steady.
The key points are:
1) Eat a big variety of REAL foods only, ala Caveman style. Limit packaged (or canned or bottled or container-ed) crap and foods with more than one or two ingredients. All you anorexics please note that it's best to eat foods with at least one ingredient, however. Real foods are: meats, fish, eggs, veggies, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, nut butters, good oils, etc. Primeval shit.
2) Know the glycemic response of foods and when the best time to eat them is; fat and protein before longer, easier (aerobic) workouts, some carbs during, carbs and protein after. Generally, if it's a fat-burning, aerobic workout ingest more fat. If it's a sugar-burning, anaerobic workout, take in a higher percentage of carbohydrates. The timing of what you eat is important! (By the way, I hate the truncated word "carb", just as I do "cardio"...my apologies for its use.)
3) Avoid "bad" stuff...caffeine, drugs, refined sugars, grains, alcohol ("some" red wine is really good, actually, and can aid in digestion and sleep), bad fats (trans, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated, and unnaturally saturated) and foods with long ingredient lists; your body has to filter through all that crap and it takes work. Be wary of dairy. To me, the biggest killers in the American diet are: high-fructose corn syrup, partially-hydrogenated oils, and beached, enriched flours...and an obvious overabundance of them all.
4) Know that diet can help you reach your goals. But just as it is (or should be ) with your training, you need to think of it as a long-term approach.
5) Learn a routine you like and one that will benefit you.
6) Increase fiber intake but from salubrious sources, not just grains.
7) Aim for close to 50-30-20 percentage (CHO-Fat-Pro) on most days. Eating too little fat increases hunger (and thus, eating) and affects glycemic response detrimentally.
8) Drinks lots of water, preferably distilled, between meals.
9) A multi-vitamin, some calcium and some fish oil capsules each day may be wise insurance.
10) A quick story: Years ago, when I used to reside at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, my roommate, Steve Larsen, and I started a game called Help or Hurt. Whatever we did, whatever we ate, we were to first ask ourselves: would this help our cause or would it hurt it? Ask yourself the same when you ingest something. It helps.
The basis of a good dietary routine…
**Veggies (all)**Fruits (during training or with nut butters to slow absorption - glycemic response**Nuts/seeds/nut butters (raw nuts and seeds are best)**Avocados (magic food!)**Olive Oil (green-ish, extra virgin, cold-pressed)**Food with fiber: apples, veggies, blender-ed food!**Meat: lean cuts, variety (red meat, not ground; turkey, chicken, fish) (Avoid bigger fish and bottom feeders (they contain more toxins and pollutants)**Eggs (spend the extra money and get the good ones)**Legumes, if your gut can handle them**Wine: red wine, small amount with red meat and vitamin C (kiwi fruit and or a small salad) is a great evening meal for the endurance athlete once or twice a week**High anti-oxidant foods (garlic, blueberries, grapefruit, goji berries, etc)**Lots and lots of distilled water (but only between meals as to not dilute digestive enzymes)
Good snacks include…Bananas smothered with peanut butterApples with or without a nut butterApplesauce (the unsweetened stuff)Guacamole! (homemade)Low glycemic fruitsJerky (without a long list of ingredients) (take some water in with any dried food)
A note about sodium: According to my buddy PZ Pearce, Medical Director at Ironman Hawaii and tons of other Ironmans worldwide, as well as being the keynote speaker at our Solvang Triathlon Camps here in sunny Solvang, a surprising number of endurance athletes run low on sodium. Perhaps this is because of over-hydration or all the bad press it receives in the mainstream media, we know not. Add some sea salt to your meals or drink the occasional V8 or tomato juice to help increase your sodium intake if you think you might need to. See your doctor to know for sure.
One of my favorite nutrition links is Mark's Daily Apple by an old friend (and I mean OLD) named Mark Sisson, ex director of the US Triathlon Federation. Also, search Gordo's website for tons of good nutrition (and training and finance and life) information. He's another friend, though not so old.
Finally, and though this has nothing to do with nutrition, I advise anyone and everyone who is serious about their triathloning to check out Alan Couzen's excellent write-up yesterday on The Ultimate Success Formula for Triathletes. He absolutely hits the nail on the head and drives it home HERE. Alan's is, by and large, one of the best triathlon-related blogs in existence.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Freedom of Choice

After yesterday's blog, I want to reiterate that I am no nutritionist, though I've met one once. I even watched one eat once.
Lucho puts it all into a better perspective. He was asked, on his blog, about diet and his philosophy around eating. In response he wrote the following...
"I'll be quick to admit that my philosophy around eating is not the best. I tend to try to eat healthy but also enjoy life for most of the year. Today I had some of my son's 1 year birthday cake. I like to go out and eat with my wife. I try harder in the last 8 weeks leading up to a race and am now in that mode where I am keeping everything as close as I can to how it should always be. Body weight is a key performance factor in the marathon so I am diligent on the calorie counting. I have a set diet that works well for my training energy and recovery.. lots of pasta, potatoes, salad, V8, coffee, and fruits. I like beer and good Pinot too but stop drinking in the weeks leading up to a race.
Looking at the diets of many of the top runners I don't see too many differences. African cultures are grain heavy. The northern African countries are couscous heavy. I think having balance is important. Having a type "A" life is good for performance, but family and fun and being a happy person is good too."
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In other words, it's all about balance and choices. Balance and choices. That's the beautiful thing of living in a free society: we have freedom of choice.
Of course, the downside with all those choices is that we've chosen "all of the above" and are consequently the FATTEST NATION ON EARTH. We need to check our balance and limit our choices and quit being tri-fat-hletes. We need to go primeval on our asses! I'm sticking to my guns on this one: eat well (as Lucho generally does) and it will pay off, if not in your athletic career, certainly in the long run.




posted @ 1/10/2008 2:08:56 PM (0) Comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Dumber than a Blonde from South Carolina
Kellie Pickler. Cute, fun, amazing voice.
However, she is dumber than a blind, deaf, shiz tzu. I still like her though.
This is a clip from "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader- Celebrity Edition"

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=8e78sgp&s=1

posted @ 1/10/2008 11:00:10 AM (0) Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Learned Behavior. Are You *&#$!!* Kidding Me?
Seriously.
Seriously?
Seriously!!!!
Look, i don't have to take a class to be straight, why would a gay need to take a class to be homosexual? That's just.. well. GHEY.
From the University of Michigan Course List.
How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.
http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?BG/317descr
ENGLISH 317. Literature and Culture.
Section 002 — How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.
Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).
Instructor(s): David M Halperin (halperin@umich.edu)
Course Description:
Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one. Gay men do some of that learning on their own, but often we learn how to be gay from others, either because we look to them for instruction or because they simply tell us what they think we need to know, whether we ask for their advice or not.
This course will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay male identity. We will approach it from three angles: (1) as a sub-cultural practice — subtle, complex, and difficult to theorize — which a small but significant body of work in queer studies has begun to explore; (2) as a theme in gay male writing; and (3) as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand.
In particular, we will examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role in learning how to be gay: Hollywood movies, grand opera, Broadway musicals, and other works of classical and popular music, as well as camp, diva-worship, drag, muscle culture, taste, style, and political activism. Are there a number of classically 'gay' works such that, despite changing tastes and generations, all gay men, of whatever class, race, or ethnicity, need to know them, in order to be gay? What is there about gay identity that explains the gay appropriation of these works? What do we learn about gay male identity by asking not who gay men are but what it is that gay men do or like? One aim of exploring these questions is to approach gay identity from the perspective of social practices and cultural identifications rather than from the perspective of gay sexuality itself. What can such an approach tell us about the sentimental, affective, or subjective dimensions of gay identity, including gay sexuality, that an exclusive focus on gay sexuality cannot?
At the core of gay experience there is not only identification but disidentification. Almost as soon as I learn how to be gay, or perhaps even before, I also learn how not to be gay. I say to myself, 'Well, I may be gay, but at least I'm not like that!' Rather than attempting to promote one version of gay identity at the expense of others, this course will investigate the stakes in gay identifications and disidentifications, seeking ultimately to create the basis for a wider acceptance of the plurality of ways in which people determine how to be gay.
Additional note. This course is not a basic introduction to gay male culture, but an exploration of certain issues arising from it. It assumes some background knowledge. Students wishing to inform themselves about gay men and gay culture in a preliminary way should enroll in an introductory course in lesbian/gay studies.
English 317 info page >


posted @ 1/9/2008 12:01:19 PM (0) Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Something You Can Do and a Bunch of Blabber
Doing Something
I've started quite a few brand new swimmers in master's practice over the last month or better. This means that now I have started to really "teach" the other strokes. We're starting with backstroke. A couple of swimmers are super fond of the bicycle kick. The bicycle kick, however effective it might be for training a high cadence, is NOT condusive to backstroke. It drags your lower body underwater thus causing two reactions:
You Sink.
You Go Backwards.
So, after 45 min of backstroke work, I decided to end practice with a non tradtional approach to a cool down.
Floating.
So after a few minutes of attempts- we (meaning myself as well since I was in the water) were floating around the pool like dead fish in red tide. One guy was still struggling a bit.
"Why don't you give me something I can do!?"
Because if you are already doing it, or doing it correctly you don't need my help. At least we got a laugh out of it.
I Vant to Pump Wu Uuup!
Tonight is my second weights session this week- my instruction:
PM Weights Repeat Monday- PUSH IT
In caps, in bold. So, although I may be sore today, just wait until tomorrow. I'm so glad I have my Fluid Recovery to help me.
Grumpy Bunny
I didn't get my ride in on the trainer last night as planned. I had to take lil' Fluffy Bun Bun, aka Bunasauras, aka Fluff n Stuff, aka Cads, aka Seargant Cadburry the Fluffy One to the vet for the second night in a row. The poor little guy has bunny pnemonia and has stopped eating his pellets. Let me tell you how much fun that was for the both of us. The vet was able to get fluids into him and make him gain back a little weight. So, I'm force feeding him brocolli and pills, and hopefully he'll start eating again. To let him know he's loved, go to the link below and, well,
Rate My Bunny.

http://ratemybunny.com/xyzzy/search?search=cadburry

posted @ 1/9/2008 5:50:15 AM (0) Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008
Yes, I have Pink Hair
No, this isn't the first time.
The underside of the tips of my hair is pink.
Deal with it.

:-)
posted @ 1/7/2008 1:12:56 PM (1) Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008
Pain is the New Black- By Liz Fedofsky
A friend of mine, and professional triathlete, Liz Fedofsky wrote this piece on her blog this morning. I found a few points really.. um.. good points. So, I have noted them. I'm starting to get back in the swing of things and my focus for this year is olympic and half distances. Which are, well, painful. it hurts to be anaerobic for 2 hrs. I have to learn how to make peace with the hurt. Here, Liz discusses just that.
To find more of Liz's writings, go to http://elizabethfedofsky.blogspot.com/
Pain Is The New Black
The other day I was at the gym doing Bulgarian squats (I have no idea what makes them Bulgarian or a squat because really they are a lunge) thinking there is no possible way right now my legs could be in any more pain. Because this is the second? third? time I have done strength training this week. My quads are literally coming off in pieces, my core is so sore I can barely laugh, and my ass. Well, underneath some holiday layers of fluff there is nothing but pure pain.And I thought to myself now as a professional athlete I cannot complain about the pain. I cannot look for an out or push the workout off by a day. No, this is my job to enjoy and eat the pain. In fact I have committed to getting fat this season on pain. Forget the peanut butter cups, I’m going to plump out on the pain.Plus it’s the winter. And the winter is a season of pain. Wait until the spring to be in pain and you’ve waited one season too long. Contrary to what most believe, winter is not the season for slacking off. Races are won in the winter. Races are lost in the winter. You decide on which side you’ll go but win or lose this winter you better be feeling some pain.This is what the winter is for. Each day you go back a little more in pain from something else you’ve done like 2 x 200 IM repeat 4 times or 23 x 100 on the 1:20 or 12 x 200 or a 3000 yard hypoxic set that almost had you peeing in the pool and your arms are ready to fall off and your neck can barely turn and your lower legs are so wound up from miles and miles and miles that you have no choice because you can’t beat it so you might as well join the pain. And this requires making peace with the pain, accepting that everything in sport comes at the cost of pain (because if there was no cost it would be easy and every one would succeed at it). So today I set out to make peace with pain. I did an indoor time trial. I hate them and I haven’t done them in years because I hate them. Why? Because they are the quickest route of 6.2 miles to pain. But hell if I’m not going to pay $25 to put myself into pain because again as professional pain is my biggest enemy and best friend so come a little closer pain and let’s go for a ride. I rode. I rode hard. I had the ugliest face of pain so bad I didn’t even have to see it to know. My heart rate reached new heights and my wattage – oh come here 4 watts not only will I take you but I will add 11 more. And all of the numbers were great and the effort was high and the time was fast but that wasn’t really the point. The point was what I did with the pain. When you feel pain you have two choices; you back off or go fearlessly towards the pain. This is what allows some athletes to break through while others just back away. Embrace the pain and trust me you’ll breakthrough. Go fearlessly into a new zone of watts or beats and you’ll get past that plateau. Oh you’ll pay for it the next day but you have to head on face that pain. Back off and you’ll have to ask yourself why. What was the barrier that held you back? Of course there might be a physical limitation or threat of injury (and in that case back off!) but chances are it was something in your head. Everyone has their point in which they cannot (actually will not) push past. Why? What is the barrier in your way? What do you do when you reach the point of pain – do you sit defeated, do you give up, slow down, fill your head with I can’t or do you fearlessly face the pain. At some point to reach the next level you have to let go of the fear and face the pain. You have to ask yourself to locate the barrier then determine a strategy to work through it on way to your success.I went into the time trial today with a strategy to welcome and then work through the pain. I sternly told myself you will push everything else aside, ride fearlessly and push past the pain. Forget the other riders, forget the numbers on the screen - have faith that you can push past the pain and breakthrough. And ride fearlessly. Fearlessness requires attention to the pain and receptivity to its acceptance. Face the pain (your fear), accept that it hurts and keep pushing on to show that you are not afraid. Because what is the worst that will happen if you go too hard – your leg will fall off? No. Your Power Tap will explode? Unlikely. You’ll lose a crank? Possibly but that would be entertaining at least. And you know what – after a few minutes I didn’t even notice the pain. Sure it was there the first mile but then I was so intent on riding, riding hard, riding fearlessly with a can I do this yes I can attitude that I eventually forgot about the pain. Can I push more watts? What if I held this one more mile? Throw it in a harder gear. Give it 10 more watts. At some point I became so involved in the task at hand that I forget about the pain. It is the season of pain. Pain is in style, in fashion, heck this winter pain is the new black. Now don’t go and be the idiot cranking out 10 x sub 6:00 mile repeats on the track in the dead of winter. That’s not the kind of pain I’m talking about here. It’s about pushing through at the appropriate times. It’s about tearing things down with core and strength work to build up stronger later on. It’s about putting yourself in a faster lane and facing your fears. Doing the indoor tine trial. Running on tired legs. It’s about spending the next 3 – 4 months working hard and working through the pain.Anything worth having is bound to cause some pain. There has to be a cost. Think of childbirth, think of love, think of your goals for sports. If all of these things came easy then they wouldn’t mean as much. Your goals are meaningful and because of that to reach them you will have to push past the pain. Let me say in all of my years competing I have never found a shortcut past the pain. I have never found the secret turnoff that allows you to avoid all of the hard work. All I know is that all winter long I push, I pull, swim, bike, run and I hurt. I make friends with the pain so come race day I can find that new level of pain because I’ve been through the other levels of pain leading to there.
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Monday, January 07, 2008
MySpace Phenomenon
So, I made a MySpace. I know, I know. I caved. I used to have one back in the day, but haven't been a member in about 2 years.
so, if you're interested in adding me as a friend for networking, please go here:
www.myspace.com/MDotCourtney

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Friday, January 04, 2008
FitDay Dietary Journal
ok, so this doesn't record my workouts, I guess I'll keep using TriFuel.net for that one. However, I have heard of a few people using this site, so I'm going to give it a try.
And, what the hey, I might as well be accountable to the world. So, here it is, my daily nutrional journal (gasp):
http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=triswimcoach
Okay, that's all folks. It's the nitty-gritty, bare-knuckled, omg-did-she-really-eat-that, log that is my nutrional intake. I started to call it a plan, but right now, it's getting BACK into shape after my slip up on my "break" from ironman. As my dad told me yesterday as he was explaining that he rode the stationary bike, "I'm on the Program."
Now, if only I could get him to sign up for Heritage Park Sprint Tri in May...
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Friday, January 04, 2008
The Downward Spiral of Britney Spears.
Hi, my name's Courtney, and I am a Britney Trainwreck-aholic.
Seriously. This woman has been "the big thing" since I was in like 8th grade, so it's only natural for me to have followed her progression over the last 10 years or so.
And now, she's finally being forced into the CedarsSinai Med Center in LA for a physciatric evaluation. Just to remind everyone what she used to be, and what she is now, take a look here. http://perezhilton.com/?paged=2
The beginning.
The super hot and amazing.
Was he really THAT bad?
Curlers, baby on hip.
WHAT THE FACK HAPPENED?
OMG. I know a really good stylist. She'll fix this for you.
Ok, I know everyone called her fat. If after 2 kids I still look like this I'll be stoked. But there are a lot of MUCH more appropriate very HOT outfits for this...
and finally, the money shot.
A long time ago I saw this strip of pics called The Downward Spiral- it's 15 years of mugshots of this pretty girl that apparently gets a coke addiction. So similar it's ridiculous.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Crutcher to Race KC Arenacross
He said he's going to race!!!!!!
378 Jeff Crutcher
I'm really excited to see my little brother race infront of the hometown! He hasn't done any arena style racing, so there's no telling how it will turn out. I just am super excited I get to see him ride.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
I'm a Do-er. Are You a Don't-er?

AMBITION
a: an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power b: desire to achieve a particular end
synonyms ambition aspiration pretension mean strong desire for advancement. ambition applies to the desire for personal advancement or preferment and may suggest equally a praiseworthy or an inordinate desire aspiration implies a striving after something higher than oneself and usually implies that the striver is thereby ennobled
Let’s talk about ambition. Since I can remember, I had a drive to be something greater than the norm. Namely, in sports. Sure, I did well in school, but I excelled in the swimming pool, the volleyball court, track, and in the middle of the cheerleading pyramid. Yep, I even wanted to be the best cheerleader. Of course, trying to be the best in a myriad of sports doesn’t come with out it’s costs. Since I focused on being good in a few sports, I never achieved the ultimate level in swimming- my number one activity. Yes, I have national gold medals, but I never made the USA National team, nor the Olympics or World Championships. Close, but no cigar.

About that time guess who I found? Eric. A fellow ambitious person who dreams big and tries to follow them. He sets a plan and course of action and follows it until his goal is met, or a subsequent goal is available. Eric’s ambition lays in the arenas where mine fall short- the business world.

Although we desire for advancement in different grounds, we both understand that if you want something big, you have to do something big to make it.

While we are just one example of an aspiring couple, there are so many of our peers who are content with still living off their parents’ dime. These people will never finish a degree- let alone pick a major, buy their own car, hold down a steady job or really make anything of themselves. There is nothing wrong with getting a hand up along the way, but being coddled is not acceptable.

What is it that drives some to succeed and others to do nothing? Why are some people “doers” and others... well, slackers?

Below is an article I pulled from Time Magazine online, and discusses the subject indepth.



Sunday, Nov. 06, 2005
Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed
By Jeffrey Kluger
You don't get as successful as Gregg and Drew Shipp by accident. Shake hands with the 36-year-old fraternal twins who co-own the sprawling Hi Fi Personal Fitness club in Chicago, and it's clear you're in the presence of people who thrive on their drive. But that wasn't always the case. The twins' father founded the Jovan perfume company, a glamorous business that spun off the kinds of glamorous profits that made it possible for the Shipps to amble through high school, coast into college and never much worry about getting the rent paid or keeping the fridge filled. But before they graduated, their sense of drift began to trouble them. At about the same time, their father sold off the company, and with it went the cozy billets in adult life that had always served as an emotional backstop for the boys.
That did it. By the time they got out of school, both Shipps had entirely transformed themselves, changing from boys who might have grown up to live off the family's wealth to men consumed with going out and creating their own. "At this point," says Gregg, "I consider myself to be almost maniacally ambitious."
It shows. In 1998 the brothers went into the gym trade. They spotted a modest health club doing a modest business, bought out the owner and transformed the place into a luxury facility where private trainers could reserve space for top-dollar clients. In the years since, the company has outgrown one building, then another, and the brothers are about to move a third time. Gregg, a communications major at college, manages the club's clients, while Drew, a business major, oversees the more hardheaded chore of finance and expansion. "We're not sitting still," Drew says. "Even now that we're doing twice the business we did at our old place, there's a thirst that needs to be quenched."
Why is that? Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others--like the Shipps--need something to get their pilot light lit? And why do others never get the flame of ambition going? Is there a family anywhere that doesn't have its overachievers and underachievers--its Jimmy Carters and Billy Carters, its Jeb Bushes and Neil Bushes--and find itself wondering how they all could have come splashing out of exactly the same gene pool?
Of all the impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition--that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it--ought to be one of the most democratically distributed. Nature is a zero-sum game, after all. Every buffalo you kill for your family is one less for somebody else's; every acre of land you occupy elbows out somebody else. Given that, the need to get ahead ought to be hard-wired into all of us equally.
And yet it's not. For every person consumed with the need to achieve, there's someone content to accept whatever life brings. For everyone who chooses the 80-hour workweek, there's someone punching out at 5. Men and women--so it's said--express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting at his second blockbuster company, Pixar Animation Studios.
Not only do we struggle to understand why some people seem to have more ambition than others, but we can't even agree on just what ambition is. "Ambition is an evolutionary product," says anthropologist Edward Lowe at Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo, Calif. "No matter how social status is defined, there are certain people in every community who aggressively pursue it and others who aren't so aggressive."
Dean Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who studies genius, creativity and eccentricity, believes it's more complicated than that. "Ambition is energy and determination," he says. "But it calls for goals too. People with goals but no energy are the ones who wind up sitting on the couch saying 'One day I'm going to build a better mousetrap.' People with energy but no clear goals just dissipate themselves in one desultory project after the next."
Assuming you've got drive, dreams and skill, is all ambition equal? Is the overworked lawyer on the partner track any more ambitious than the overworked parent on the mommy track? Is the successful musician to whom melody comes naturally more driven than the unsuccessful one who sweats out every note? We may listen to Mozart, but should we applaud Salieri?
Most troubling of all, what about when enough ambition becomes way too much? Grand dreams unmoored from morals are the stuff of tyrants--or at least of Enron. The 16-hour workday filled with high stress and at-the-desk meals is the stuff of burnout and heart attacks. Even among kids, too much ambition quickly starts to do real harm. In a just completed study, anthropologist Peter Demerath of Ohio State University surveyed 600 students at a high-achieving high school where most of the kids are triple-booked with advanced-placement courses, sports and after-school jobs. About 70% of them reported that they were starting to feel stress some or all of the time. "I asked one boy how his parents react to his workload, and he answered, 'I don't really get home that often,'" says Demerath. "Then he handed me his business card from the video store where he works."
Anthropologists, psychologists and others have begun looking more closely at these issues, seeking the roots of ambition in family, culture, gender, genes and more. They have by no means thrown the curtain all the way back, but they have begun to part it. "It's fundamentally human to be prestige conscious," says Soka's Lowe. "It's not enough just to be fed and housed. People want more."
If humans are an ambitious species, it's clear we're not the only one. Many animals are known to signal their ambitious tendencies almost from birth. Even before wolf pups are weaned, they begin sorting themselves out into alphas and all the others. The alphas are quicker, more curious, greedier for space, milk, Mom--and they stay that way for life. Alpha wolves wander widely, breed annually and may live to a geriatric 10 or 11 years old. Lower-ranking wolves enjoy none of these benefits--staying close to home, breeding rarely and usually dying before they're 4.
Humans often report the same kind of temperamental determinism. Families are full of stories of the inexhaustible infant who grew up to be an entrepreneur, the phlegmatic child who never really showed much go. But if it's genes that run the show, what accounts for the Shipps, who didn't bestir themselves until the cusp of adulthood? And what, more tellingly, explains identical twins--precise genetic templates of each other who ought to be temperamentally identical but often exhibit profound differences in the octane of their ambition?
Ongoing studies of identical twins have measured achievement motivation--lab language for ambition--in identical siblings separated at birth, and found that each twin's profile overlaps 30% to 50% of the other's. In genetic terms, that's an awful lot--"a benchmark for heritability," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute. But that still leaves a great deal that can be determined by experiences in infancy, subsequent upbringing and countless other imponderables.
Some of those variables may be found by studying the function of the brain. At Washington University, researchers have been conducting brain imaging to investigate a trait they call persistence--the ability to stay focused on a task until it's completed just so--which they consider one of the critical engines driving ambition.
The researchers recruited a sample group of students and gave each a questionnaire designed to measure persistence level. Then they presented the students with a task--identifying sets of pictures as either pleasant or unpleasant and taken either indoors or outdoors--while conducting magnetic resonance imaging of their brains. The nature of the task was unimportant, but how strongly the subjects felt about performing it well--and where in the brain that feeling was processed--could say a lot. In general, the researchers found that students who scored highest in persistence had the greatest activity in the limbic region, the area of the brain related to emotions and habits. "The correlation was .8 [or 80%]," says professor of psychiatry Robert Cloninger, one of the investigators. "That's as good as you can get."
It's impossible to say whether innate differences in the brain were driving the ambitious behavior or whether learned behavior was causing the limbic to light up. But a number of researchers believe it's possible for the nonambitious to jump-start their drive, provided the right jolt comes along. "Energy level may be genetic," says psychologist Simonton, "but a lot of times it's just finding the right thing to be ambitious about." Simonton and others often cite the case of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who might not have been the same President he became--or even become President at all--had his disabling polio not taught him valuable lessons about patience and tenacity.
Is such an epiphany possible for all of us, or are some people immune to this kind of lightning? Are there individuals or whole groups for whom the amplitude of ambition is simply lower than it is for others? It's a question--sometimes a charge--that hangs at the edges of all discussions about gender and work, about whether women really have the meat-eating temperament to survive in the professional world. Both research findings and everyday experience suggest that women's ambitions express themselves differently from men's. The meaning of that difference is the hinge on which the arguments turn.
Economists Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University conducted a study in which they assembled 40 men and 40 women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50¢ for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally in both tests, but on the third round, when asked to choose which of the two ways they wanted to play, only 35% of the women opted for the tournament format; 75% of the men did.
"Men and women just differ in their appetite for competition," says Vesterlund. "There seems to be a dislike for it among women and a preference among men."
To old-line employers of the old-boy school, this sounds like just one more reason to keep the glass ceiling polished. But other behavioral experts think Vesterlund's conclusions go too far. They say it's not that women aren't ambitious enough to compete for what they want; it's that they're more selective about when they engage in competition; they're willing to get ahead at high cost but not at any cost. "Primate-wide, males are more directly competitive than females, and that makes sense," says Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. "But that's not the same as saying women aren't innately competitive too."
As with so much viewed through the lens of anthropology, the roots of these differences lie in animal and human mating strategies. Males are built to go for quick, competitive reproductive hits and move on. Women are built for the it-takes-a-village life, in which they provide long-term care to a very few young and must sail them safely into an often hostile world. Among some of our evolutionary kin--baboons, macaques and other old-world monkeys--this can be especially tricky since young females inherit their mother's social rank. The mothers must thus operate the levers of society deftly so as to raise both their own position and, eventually, their daughters'. If you think that kind of ambition-by-proxy doesn't translate to humans, Hrdy argues, think again. "Just read an Edith Wharton novel about women in old New York competing for marriage potential for their daughters," she says.
Import such tendencies into the 21st century workplace, and you get women who are plenty able to compete ferociously but are inclined to do it in teams and to split the difference if they don't get everything they want. And mothers who appear to be unwilling to strive and quit the workplace altogether to go raise their kids? Hrdy believes they're competing for the most enduring stakes of all, putting aside their near-term goals to ensure the long-term success of their line. Robin Parker, 46, a campaign organizer who in 1980 was already on the presidential stump with Senator Edward Kennedy, was precisely the kind of lifetime pol who one day finds herself in the West Wing. But in 1992, at the very moment a President of her party was returning to the White House and she might have snagged a plum Washington job, she decamped from the capital, moved to Boston with her family and became a full-time mom to her two sons.
"Being out in the world became a lot less important to me," she says. "I used to worry about getting Presidents elected, and I'm still an incredibly ambitious person. But what I want to succeed at now is managing my family, raising my boys, helping my husband and the community. In 10 years, when the boys are launched, who knows what I'll be doing? But for now, I have my world."
But even if something as primal as the reproductive impulse wires you one way, it's possible for other things to rewire you completely. Two of the biggest influences on your level of ambition are the family that produced you and the culture that produced your family.
There are no hard rules for the kinds of families that turn out the highest achievers. Most psychologists agree that parents who set tough but realistic challenges, applaud successes and go easy on failures produce kids with the greatest self-confidence (see box).
What's harder for parents to control but has perhaps as great an effect is the level of privilege into which their kids are born. Just how wealth or poverty influences drive is difficult to predict. Grow up in a rich family, and you can inherit either the tools to achieve (think both Presidents Bush) or the indolence of the aristocrat. Grow up poor, and you can come away with either the motivation to strive (think Bill Clinton) or the inertia of the hopeless. On the whole, studies suggest it's the upper middle class that produces the greatest proportion of ambitious people--mostly because it also produces the greatest proportion of anxious people.
When measuring ambition, anthropologists divide families into four categories: poor, struggling but getting by, upper middle class, and rich. For members of the first two groups, who are fighting just to keep the electricity on and the phone bill paid, ambition is often a luxury. For the rich, it's often unnecessary. It's members of the upper middle class, reasonably safe economically but not so safe that a bad break couldn't spell catastrophe, who are most driven to improve their lot. "It's called status anxiety," says anthropologist Lowe, "and whether you're born to be concerned about it or not, you do develop it."
But some societies make you more anxious than others. The U.S. has always been a me-first culture, as befits a nation that grew from a scattering of people on a fat saddle of continent where land was often given away. That have-it-all ethos persists today, even though the resource freebies are long since gone. Other countries--where the acreage is smaller and the pickings are slimmer--came of age differently, with the need to cooperate getting etched into the cultural DNA. The American model has produced wealth, but it has come at a price--with ambition sometimes turning back on the ambitious and consuming them whole.
The study of high-achieving high school students conducted by Ohio State's Demerath was noteworthy for more than the stress he found the students were suffering. It also revealed the lengths to which the kids and their parents were willing to go to gain an advantage over other suffering students. Cheating was common, and most students shrugged it off as only a minor problem. A number of parents--some of whose children carried a 4.0 average--sought to have their kids classified as special-education students, which would entitle them to extra time on standardized tests. "Kids develop their own moral code," says Demerath. "They have a keen sense of competing with others and are developing identities geared to that."
Demerath got very different results when he conducted research in a very different place--Papua, New Guinea. In the mid-1990s, he spent a year in a small village there, observing how the children learned. Usually, he found, they saw school as a noncompetitive place where it was important to succeed collectively and then move on. Succeeding at the expense of others was seen as a form of vanity that the New Guineans call "acting extra." Says Demerath: "This is an odd thing for them."
That makes tactical sense. In a country based on farming and fishing, you need to know that if you get sick and can't work your field or cast your net, someone else will do it for you. Putting on airs in the classroom is not the way to ensure that will happen.
Of course, once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast.
As a group, the immigrant children in his study are outperforming their U.S.-born peers. What's more, the adults are dramatically outperforming the immigrant families that came before them. "One hundred years ago, it took people two to three generations to achieve a middle-class standard of living," says Suárez-Orozco. "Today they're getting there within a generation."
So this is a good thing, right? Striving people come here to succeed--and do. While there are plenty of benefits that undeniably come with learning the ways of ambition, there are plenty of perils too--many a lot uglier than high school students cheating on the trig final.
Human history has always been writ in the blood of broken alliances, palace purges and strong people or nations beating up on weak ones--all in the service of someone's hunger for power or resources. "There's a point at which you find an interesting kind of nerve circuitry between optimism and hubris," says Warren Bennis, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and the author of three books on leadership. "It becomes an arrogance or conceit, an inability to live without power."
While most ambitious people keep their secret Caesar tucked safely away, it can emerge surprisingly, even suddenly. Says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta and the author of a new book, Our Inner Ape: "You can have a male chimp that is the most laid-back character, but one day he sees the chance to overthrow the leader and becomes a totally different male. I would say 90% of people would behave this way too. On an island with three people, they might become a little dictator."
But a yearning for supremacy can create its own set of problems. Heart attacks, ulcers and other stress-related ills are more common among high achievers--and that includes nonhuman achievers. The blood of alpha wolves routinely shows elevated levels of cortisol, the same stress hormone that is found in anxious humans. Alpha chimps even suffer ulcers and occasional heart attacks.
For these reasons, people and animals who have an appetite for becoming an alpha often settle contentedly into life as a beta. "The desire to be in a high position is universal," says de Waal. "But that trait has co-evolved with another skill--the skill to make the best of lower positions."
Humans not only make peace with their beta roles but they also make money from them. Among corporations, an increasingly well-rewarded portion of the workforce is made up of B players, managers and professionals somewhere below the top tier. They don't do the power lunching and ribbon cutting but instead perform the highly skilled, everyday work of making the company run. As skeptical shareholders look ever more askance at overpaid corporate A-listers, the B players are becoming more highly valued. It's an adaptation that serves the needs of both the corporation and the culture around it. "Everyone has ambition," says Lowe. "Societies have to provide alternative ways for people to achieve."
Ultimately, it's that very flexibility--that multiplicity of possible rewards--that makes dreaming big dreams and pursuing big goals worth all the bother. Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. The trick, as any good speculator will tell you, is recognizing the riches when they come your way.
With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Eric Ferkenhoff/Los Angeles, Noah Isackson/Los Angeles, Leslie Whitaker/Chicago

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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Blogs, Logs, and Training Spreadsheets
All these blogs. Many different logs. And one big spreadsheet.
HELP.
I want to log my training, inclduing cross training and weights via a tracking system. I found one I really like about a year and a half ago on Beginner Triathlete, but that website is blocked at my work and I do most of my blogging and logging on.. um.. break. I am a member on TriFuel.com, but I really don't understand how to make the log work for me. I tried reading the manual online, and decided I'd print it out and read over lunch. It's 53 pages. Nevermind. I guess you have to be an engineer to make that one work. Robo is using Training Peaks as that's what her coach uses. I checked that out and it looks good, but you have to pay for it, and from what I can find, it's about $140/year. I dont have that in my budget. Actually, I don't have a lot of things in my budget but I rob Peter to pay Paul on quite a bit.
So, here I am with this fancy schmancy training log on TriFuel and I don't know what the h-e-double hockey stick to do with it.
Does anyone use TriFuel? Insight? Please?

http://www.trifuel.com/log/


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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
The Fortune Cookie

Your Fortune:Good things are on their way.

http://predictions.astrology.com/fc/

Welcome to the New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, here we are, 2008. I rang in the New Year by sleeping thru it next to my finace. Ahhh sleep. So much better than all you boozers out there still nursing a hangover! ;)
Eric's new year's resolution: Stop (binge) drinking. The name of the game is moderation.
Mine: Go Faster. No really, top 3 in all local tri's and top 15% in the larger national style events.
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