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Testing testing

mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:00:04 +0000

Trying out a new mobile wordpress application. Let’s hope this one works.

Still tweaking

mike — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:13:05 +0000

I am still working on a few things with the site. I recently added my last.fm “scrobbled” tracks, so it basically lists the last songs that I have listened to. Other than that, I am just sitting here scratching my head trying to figure out some font size, type and color for a few things on the site. I am not entirely happy with the black title, but just not sure what to make it. Any feedback on that one, feel free to let me know.

On the bike front, today was a rest day, so nothing too exciting except proping the feet up and taking it easy. We did manage to get about 6 inches of snow last night into this morning, so that will ruin some things, but it is about that time in the season for me to just get out there on the roads, snow or no snow, and get done what needs to be done. Tomorrow is a litle fitness test to see how much I approved through the past 2 months. Another night on the trainer. YEAH!!!

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New site design going live..

mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:20:23 +0000

After a bunch of work, you can see that I activated the new website theme. Things aren’t 100% correct, but I wanted to get some traffic onto the site to make sure links and things work. I can sit there and look at coding and things like that all day long, but there is nothing like a little “beta” testing. So, I set this sucker loose, so hopefully you all will like it. I plan on changing some colors and things, but I wanted to get it live to test it all out. You might see some changes during the next couple of days, but this will be the “jist” of what it will look like…

Feel free to comment and let me know if some links don’t work 100%…

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Spring tease

mike — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:55:14 +0000

It happens every year around this time of the year. It is freezing cold and suddenly it gets a tad warmer. On Saturday it was in the mid 30s and on Sunday, it was in the 40s. Because of a day or 2 of warm weather, my mind shifts into spring mode. I do it every year. Now, when it will get cold again in a day or so, depression hits again because I know that Febuary is usually the cold month and the one with the most snow. Ohh well.

With the warmth, I took advantage of what coach had me doing outside. On Saturday, it was scheduled for a 4 hour effort trying to keep my hear rate down. I never really thought I wold have had some problems with keeping the pace slow and the heart rate down. Unfortunately, I think there might have been something wrong with the heart rate monitor. I have seen rates jump around before. No big deal. But on a slight uphill, where a bit more effort is needed, there is no way my heart rate should drop 20 beats in 5 seconds. I think I need to call Sigma to talk to them about it. Either way, it as a good ride and I am stoked to get in 62 miles in Febuary.

Sunday had me hiking with the dog for a fw hours. Nothing too spectacular except for the killer weather. Again, I will take it whenever I can get it.

Today….ahh, gotta love it, rest day. And rest I did.

I did get a bit of a finger workout by doing a bi of coding for the new website. If I get some time at work tomorrow, I should be able to get it 99% ready and hopefully have it up and running…..that is if we don’t have internet problems at work again….

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Its official….

mike — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:37:33 +0000

Well, its official. The new website is up and running 100%. This is over a month or 2 coming so I am excited and relieved that it is finally here. All the url’s now redirect you to the correct spot but feel free to update all your bookmarks. If any of you are tooling around the site and any link doesn’t work, let me know. I was doing all this nonsense late last night so there might be an error somewhere on the site, but lets hope not..

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Updates galore

mike — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:16:30 +0000

Well, its been done. The I finally got around to updating the site to the new theme and tomorrow morning I will be working on the new name. From now on, the site will be commonly known as outdooraddict.org. I thought the new name for the site was quite fitting for my life style. I decided to change everything and make the new name because typing in my full name seemed like such a pain. Now there will be a lot less key strokes for all. I am keeping the old url around and it will automatically redirect you toward the new name, but really, it will be just as easy to type in the new stuff.

I like the new theme. It took me quite some time to figure out exactly which one to use. I must have looked for more than a thousand of them until I found this one. I like it, for now. I am sure at some point I will get sick of it as well, but until then, I will stick with this one.

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Lack of postings

mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:38:09 +0000

There has been a lack of postings by me lately. I am sorry. It is a problem we are working on here at headquarters. I will try not to let it happen again..

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24 Hour Race pictures added

mike — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:47:58 +0000

I forgot to mention that the other night I added the 24 hour race pictures. Check em out when you get a chance. Some of them are good. I must say I like the bags under my eyes on this one. It was taken at about 6am as the sun was coming up and we had been racing for about 18 hours, 8 or so of which I have been pedaling a bike and not sleeping the other 10.

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Good day for working out…

mike — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:41:45 +0000

Today started off Week 1, Day 1 (W1D1) of Hal Higdon’s 1/2 Marathon Training and today called for some strength and stretching. For the strength part, I went for a 16 mile bike ride and pushed it on the ride. Probably not the smartest thing to do. I must admit, my legs are still a little sore from my warm up run the other day, so I thought that a nice easy road ride would calm the legs down and work out all the soreness. I don’t think I was 1 mile into it before I had it in the big ring pushing hard gears. So much for the easy spin. After I got home, ate and took the dog for a 3 mile walk into town. I got the nike+ipod calibrated and it was pretty much spot on, .02 off for every 2 miles, so I am decently happy with its results especially since there are so many variables that could cause that to be different than the GPS signal I was receiving. Tomorrow calls for the first run of the training and it is a 3 miler. I am actually looking forward to it. New toys will do that.

On the website change over news, the name is ready to go, but the theme I chose for it is being a little difficult so it might be a day or so until it “officially” changed over. I wanted it to be done today, but with so much that needs to be done to it and lack of free time, it is delayed, and I can live with that.

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Goals page updated

mike — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:26:19 +0000

I just updated the Goals page, and I must say, I am looking rather pathetic at this point in terms of my goals. I am about 7 pounds behind and also about 300 miles behind on my bike. I’m not concerned. For the past 2 weeks, I was unable to ride. That keeps the weight on and the milage down. At this point, I feel that I can ride on the bike again with a little strain on my back, so I’m going to grit my teeth and ride. Now, if the weather would work with me. It isn’t, so back onto the trainer again. Time to take it to the next level for the next couple of weeks or so. I think I can take the weight off and break even over the next 2 or 3 weeks or so, and once the weather comes around, I will make it up on the milage. I’m not concerned.

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