Archive for July, 2006

Ullrich fired from T Mobile

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

T Mobile Team press release link thats too long for my blog
http://www.eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/sport_sto931254.shtml
It is strange when things change, I am used all my life to seeing Ullrich ride for Telekom, ever since I realized there is cycling out there, in early 90s. Strange but change also makes things dynamic and thats good…
I wonder what he will [...]

Why Ironman races use the drafting rule?

Monday, July 24th, 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI7GEE36uS8
A funny video…

Swimming science blog and YouTube swim videos

Monday, July 24th, 2006

http://swimmingscience.blogspot.com/
Cool link with swimming videos. It never occured to me that I can search for swimming technique videos on YouTube. I am so happy now - I can watch other people do what I can no do myself all day long. :)

Muscle and food aditive links

Monday, July 24th, 2006

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
A simple list of exercises and muscle groups, I saw this website ages ago and just found it again on another tri blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_additives
Good list of additives. Its good to avoid most of them in food, during endurance training athletes consume much more food than average person (for example average person needs about 2000-2500 kCal while Ironman [...]

Ironman Lake Placid - Zyemtsev wins

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Lake Placid start. Photo by ASIPhoto.com
http://ironman.com/events/ironman/lakeplacid?show=leaderboard&y=2006 
Ukrainian Viktor Zyemtsev won with 8:38.
This is an amazing Sunday with two big Ironman races - one in Frankfurt and one at Lake Placid.
Also it is a third Ironman this year with rainy conditions (that I know of): South Africa, Frankfurt and Placid all had rainy weather. I guess rain [...]