Perception Vs. Reality

What a wonderful show this is. Emily, Kai, and I all go camping and sleep under the stars at a local state park. I recorded the show as we lay on our backs watching the moon and the local raccoon population surrounds us. Dubbed in audio includes Arnold Schwarzenegger flipping out over his body, saying "We work out until it hurts." and a nice clip of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme song. We are getting closer to the Ragnar. Stay tuned!Show notes!

• Bad Boys of Running Podcast.


• Jodi of COAR.


• Perception vs. reality.


• Runners Roundtable.


• Quantum physics... Just Zen rediscovered?


• Eat when hungry, sleep when tired.


• Running at night.


• The zen book is coming along!


• Check out www.gotfanatics.com.


• Can you stop a hurricane? Why would you want to?


• Ever seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul?

When Washing Dishes…

Phil sent this to me -

http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2008/9/2/thich-nhat-hanh.html

It's Kevin Rose talking about Thich Nhat Hanh's "When washing dishes, only wash dishes" that I mention so much on my own show. Very cool to see such an Internet superstar talking about the same thing I do.

Zen is being adopted at an incredible rate by today's Americans. It's a perfect storm that is better described in a whole other post. Anyway, I expect to see the dishwashing referenced more and more and Alan Watts' "It is what it does." Very cool!

A Little Coding Fun

People are sometimes surprised to find out how much I enjoy programming/coding. The truth of the matter is that I can't enjoy something unless I fully understand how it works.  My dad being an engineer and myself having an incredibly inquisitive mind, I have learned the basics of almost every system I encounter.  I absolutely love knowing the mechanics of everything!

I used to professionally design web pages in the 90s, stopping right before CSS became popular.  Now everything is CSS.  It has been driving me mad trying to adjust and dabble in fixing this and several other web sites without knowing the fundamentals of how CSS works.

I've been working to fix that, learning PHP, CSS, and some other goodies to improve my skills.  I bought www.endurancemapper.com and started designing it using CSS.

I'm not using any designing software to make it easier.  I'm doing the whole bastard by hand.  Takes forever, but I don't learn the mechanics of the system unless I build it myself.  A lot of designers do this, too.  Gives them the ultimate control over the layout.

I'm adding in a Google Map and some other elements to make some sort of a mapping site where triathlon is involved.  Really haven't thought that part through yet.  It's really just a butcher shop for now, trying different things out.

Long story short, I'm linking "blog" from there to here so I can comment on what I'm adding to it so I can document the progress.  If you see weird posts here about EnduranceMapper.com, that's what is going on.

CURRENT PROGRESS -

Ok, learned tons of how CSS works from w3schools.com.  Very cool.  Scoped out the template of Instamapper.com and tried emulating that.  Still working on it.  Lots of trouble with some weird space between two divs.  Have a google map hack waiting in the sidelines to throw in...

I was on Runners Roundtable!

I was lucky enough to be asked to be a guest on Runners Roundtable yesterday.  I found the experience to be fun and odd.  I think their podcast idea is fantastic, so I was very excited to talk about ultra running and high mileage training.  But the angle they most wanted to talk to me about was Zen.  Zen?  Me?  I know that's in the title of the show and I talk about it some, but I always thought I was just winging that part.  Then the host started mentioning all the Zen stuff I have said in just one podcast and it hit me about how much I've learned and tried to pass on to others.

So I just realized that I'm a Zen guy first, triathlete second, runner third.  Funny how reality can be so different from what you thought it was.  How so very... Zen?

I can't wait to be back on someday.  I'm hoping that it is soon after I race the Ragnar and we can talk about that experience.

Thanks, RR!

Karma Pizza

Join me on this episode while I take you for a Zen Bike Ride, then show you how to do an upside down hamstring stretch, and then we go waaaaaay off the deep end and teach the Yoga Corpse Pose.

Listen in for lots of great audio goodies thrown in and notice how uncomfortable and disorienting it can be to listen to silence for only a few moments.

SHOWNOTES!

• On a Zen Bike Ride.


• Pictures of Suunto bike pod.


• How to email pictures to Flickr.


• Trick to make footwear make you want to work out.


• SLS Compression socks really do work.


• Meditation walk.


• Have you tried a metta-run?


• Erich the haxor.


• Ozzy starting an ironman.


• Awesome upside-down hamstring stretch.


• Spencer Green update. Do like radiohead?


• Follow mcnitt on Twitter for pushups.

• Suunto T6 updated to T6c


• Oakley Half Jackets winner!


• The Zen of half-eaten pizza.


• Corpse Pose.


• Alan Watts and "It is what it does!"


• The truth behind Karma.