Surf and Turf

I go for a beautiful bike ride across the Texas countryside as I talk tech, Zen, and throw in some fun audio tidbits. I also tack on the end a 25 minute "driving with Brett" piece where you can get a glimpse into my scrambled brains. Enjoy and make sure you check out the shownotes below!

• EOF from MC plus +


• Taking pictures along my ride. Check out the coordinates at the bottom of the pix! You can drop them into Google Maps, Flickr Map, or locate on Google Earth. Try out the software at Robogeo.com. Click on my Flickr pictures to the right and then pick one with coordinates, then click on "map" on the right side to see where it is!


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• Some hippie Zen stuff.


• Car ride.


• My ghetto-fabulous navigation system.


• Rant about crazy wicked surf witch.


• Rant about redneck Texans.

4 Ways Ultra Running Can Help You Tri Better

I purposefully tackled ultra running (running events more than 26.2 miles) this year to make me a better runner. Wow, has it paid off. I've noticed some cool side-effects:

1. Running 4 hours at a time makes a 65 mile bike ride seem short. I just cranked out my favorite epic ride like it was a stroll in the park. I train for ultras by running 4 hours. Running. 4 hours. 4 hours on foot makes 3.5 hours on the bike seem like laying in bed. There's a few sections of that ride that used to seem to drag on forever. Now they just fly by.


2. The higher effort level of running, applied at extended periods of time, trains you to bike more like a pro triathlete. Simple fact - running requires a higher heart rate than biking. Ultra Running puts you in a higher HR bracket for hours and hours on end. When you get on a bike, you'll find that you can sustain a harder aerobic effort than ever before.


3. Stuff that seemed hard is now much easier. Wandering around the woods with horrible pains and no aid station for 6 miles takes some getting used to. Endurance sport workouts come with highs and lows. The lows of Ultra Running can be really low. Only running really drives your legs into the ground, much worse than being able to switch up sports and swim/bike/run. Learn to survive it and the lows of triathlon don't seem that bad.


4. Ultra Running Translates Well into the Bike. Some sports assist you at doing others. Swimming helps surfing, biking helps swimming, weight lifting helps wrestling... on and on. I found out that going long on the run can really help you out on the bike. I can feel much more power coming through my quads and calves. I haven't been biking much at all for several months and then hopped on my bike and popped off a long ride at a decent speed and incredibly low heart rate.  I bet you can, too!

Hold on Tight!

Join me for a fast-paced mountain bike ride, brick run, and an interview with a spankin' new triathlete about how his first triathlon went.

SHOWNOTES!

• Intro music - "Blood, Milk, and Honey" by White Zombie.


• Mountain biking, jumping, skidding, nearly wrecking.


• Locking bike to tree so I can start trail running.


• Interview with Pete the New 'Lete


• Back on the bike.


• Voicemails - me to myself on another mountain bike ride.

What Zen Is

It's considered a major faux pas to try to describe Zen.  Zen is existing right here and right now.  To try to translate that into words and you lose the essence.

If you are still trying to "get it", I stumbled upon something that can help.  What better way to describe Zen than to read The Essentials of Living like a Zen Monk.  Seriously, this is good stuff.

Make sure to read that posting's comments to find even more goodies.

Iron Buddha Bull

Join me for a zendurance ride on some beautiful Texas highways as I wax philosophical about a variety of topics. Great day, great ride, great life.

• The Hornet Juice Contest is coming!


• Zentri Hippy Moment.


• Started growing some bamboo. Pandas are a predator!


• Eat the shoots. Leaves are poisonous.

• RemembertheMilk.com
  


• Aboard the BMC, Schwinn is 500 lbs.


• Angry Corn recipe!

• Kboo - bike evangelist.


• Materialize bikes just like cars.


• Sell you a promise.


• Friend wishes he didn't buy a truck - first occurrence.


• Gas price goes up, lag in living locations.

• Beards are back in. Middle east influence?

• Emily's dad named a bull after me!

• Trail runner mag - a dirty magazine.


• Trail running shoe reviews.


• How to meditate while running.


• Forget everything else, focus on the breathing and footsteps. Mind wanders, bring it back.


• Useful for learning how to focus on tasks.

• Ran home after dropping car off for tires

• Goals - mellow out, bike to work, opportunistic training and racing.


• Run to work, run to pool, surfing, skateboard.

• Zencast - to look at yourself at the human scale is to sentence yourself to death.


• "The wave is enlightened when it realizes it is water."


• Zen is a guiltless practice. no worries, just skillfull and unskillful.

• "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today" -Will Rogers

• "I have flying monkeys and I will use them!"