Archive for September, 2006

Mergozzo half ironman

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

I have been so lazy to write a review of the race for this blog, so I appologize to 2 unique visitors of this site (members of my close family and one guy I forced to see it in a net cafe last weekend) for the delay.
This is how it goes.
Mergozzo looks great, its a [...]

Aerodynamic

Friday, September 8th, 2006

I often hear comments about gaining time with gadgets, here are few links, ill add more…
Aerodynamic tests with the SRM Training System
Aerodynamics of Bicycles (Princeton.edu / old article but some math info if you care about it)
Slowtwitch article on QR bikes mostly, touches aerodynamics

Thassos

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Roadtrip to island of Thassos, Greece

New Orca Apex design

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Robi sent me this image of Orca Apex. Reminds me of traditional turkish clothes. It is nice that sports equipment is getting of the high-tech-gray-meets-black-carbon look. I was wondering why aren’t there more designs on wetsuits, it seams like such a perfect surface for visual expression. Nice.

Tim Don world champ

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

http://www.britishtriathlon.org/news/article.php?id=8613
ITU triathlon (short + drafting) is not my favorite sport but I still like to check it out from time to time.
I met Tim Don very shortly at a Western Province champs in South Africa, in a very strange Greece village copy in South Africa, called Mykonos. It was a training race for me (with [...]