Another interesting week...

In case you haven't noticed, the Bay Area has been experiencing some excellent weather the past week. If you haven't availed yourself of it, you should...because there's no telling when we'll have another one of those nasty heat waves!

JULY 24th: Last Thursday was a balmy 90 degrees in Moraga....perfect weather for attending an evening swim clinic hosted by our friends at the Sports Basement, Wayne and Michelle! We joined up with a few of of our triathlete friends(Venus and Pia) to try to glean more knowledge about swim stroke refinement and what matters most for triathletes: optimal speed with least expenditure of energy.


And of course, afterwards we refueled with some delectable foodfare from Chow Food Bar in Lafayette!



JULY 25th: Sadly, Randy Pausch died last Friday. Mr. Pausch was a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “Last Lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book. His message is truly inspiring, and worth a look:




July 26th: So being the Tiggers that we are...Jo and I ran 5 miles Saturday morning, before heading over to see our friends at the Sports Basement again. Today's appointment was to as as Alex put's it, "put a turbo-charger" onto Marvin's bike. In this case, the turbo-charger is the AeroLite(TM) by Profile Design:

This little baby allows me to generate an additional 1.0-2.0 miles per hour on the flats by helping me get into a "tucked position". That's going to translate to additional minutes shaved off of the bike leg on my next race.
Here's some pics that Jo took during my fitting session with our friend Ryan at Walnut Creek Sports Basement.



JULY 27th: On Sunday, we went to Sydney's swim meet in Walnut Creek where she placed 1st again in her heat! This time it was the 25-yard backstroke. Here's some images from that day.


And here's a live clip of Sydney's 1st place performance. Look at this little speedboat jam down the lane! Sydney is at the farthest lane out next to the wall.




JULY 30th: And the most recent bit of news...at 5:30AM on Wednesday, our friends Eugene and Jenny had their little boy Nolan! He is a healthy 8lb 12.6oz baby, 22in long, and has very proud parents! Congratulations Euigi and Jenaynay !!!