Podcast - Eating Mindfully

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HolisticGuru joins us again to fix more bad nutrition habits.  This time, she gives us eight tips on how to eat mindfully.

Eating mindfully deals with the fact that most of us simply shovel calories down without thinking about quality or quantity.  Ever sit in front of the TV and make a bag of chips disappear?  Yeah, now you know what we're talking about.

My interview with her is after a short bit where I take you with me on a bike ride.  I talk a little about time trials, hitting 38.4 mph with my kid on the back of the bike, and the Paleo diet.  It's good stuff.  Especially because I get chased by a dog.

Next week's show has an interview with pro triathlete John Hirsch.  Stay tuned!

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Asthma = Allergies

I've been undergoing allergy testing lately and it's a real eye-opener.  I break out into a rash after long bike rides and my eyes get itchy on occasion, but that was OK. 

It's when my lungs tried to shut down when doing sprints on the bike that I figured I needed to get checked out.  After some Googling about "exercise induced asthma" I found out something interesting - Asthma is often just allergies, showing up in the lungs. Now I'm no doctor and there's also asthma being a result of the shock of cold air, so don't go diagnosing yourself on what I write here.  Go talk to your own doctor.

I went in for tests and I'm essentially a walking allergy bomb.  I'm severely allergic to lots of stuff, mostly grass and trees.  I finally got an opportunity to ask the doctor the real question: "But is this what's causing my asthma attacks on the bike?"

The answer is yes.  Just like your skin breaks out in a rash, your lungs react as well.  Asthma is an allergic reaction to what's in the air.

So, I'm on some meds to help with the asthma and now on shots to try to kill off the allergies for good.  We'll see how things progress over the next few years and I'll run some self-tests to see if I'm cured.  Good times!  It's always nice to know what is going on in your own body.

Podcast - Power Squash

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Join the ZenTri Cult as we continue our Oregon trip and go to Astoria, interview an Astorian runner, play live folk music, talk about portion control, and get in some great voicemails.

Shownotes!

• Interview with Claire, that chick that runs all over Astoria, all the time.  :)
• Live music played by Candice (and Chris) that was submitted for a Portland beer commercial.
• Holistic Guru tells us eight ways to keep on top of our portion control.
• Voicemails!

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Up, Over, or Down?

WARNING - This post is not triathlon related.  Scary, I know, but I bet you can deal with it.

Living in Tex-ass, I usually tell foreigners people in other places to "come down" when they visit.  This is because they are usually above me on a north-oriented map.  I was just emailing a guy in San Antonio about coming down and realized he actually lives slightly below and to the west of me, lattitudenally.  To be geographically correct, I went back and changed my wording to "come over" instead.  Yes, I'm a geogeek.

Do you take the other person's planetary position in account when asking them to come over, down, or up?  What do you say?

Twitter is the New Google

Did you know Google isn't really a search engine?  It's an advertising agency that uses a search engine to pull you in.  I'm not knocking it - Google works great.  But there's another cool way to get answers: Twitter.

Once you get more than a few dozen followers on Twitter.com, you can get some great answers out of them.  I can post, "How do you run with your iPhone?" and get back a lot of responses from people who actually run with one.

The key is knowing how to phrase the question and also to have a large enough audience.  You can ask a bunch of runners how to upgrade SQL Server while juggling monkeys and you might not get a response.  Lots of runners are into tech stuff, so you never know.

Asking questions is a fun way to start up conversations and make new friends, too.  Enjoy it!