Collection of Hate Week Awesomeness

To Hell With Georgia

 Guess Some things Never Change..

 Even Bulldogs want to move up in life...

Even in the black and white era people new  

'nuff Said

To Hell With Georgia!

Just because it's hate week and I'm a Georgia Tech grad, which should be understood because I can use a computer. The picture below shows why UGA Monopoly isn't as much fun to play as Techopoly.

Besides I gotta get my digs in somehow, usually before the game b/c we haven't shown up the last few, but I'll be loud and proud on Saturday

Anyone know..

If there is heated body glide, or warming body glide? I mean i use BodyGlide the exact brand shown below, but in the winter nothing helps the nipples..so I was thinking is there a warming body glide? I mean vicks vapor rub kinda has that warming effect, and there's some other items that would work...but are definitely not meant for the runner

Yes, thoughts while running are strange...

Crushing Handshake of AWESOME!

Remember back to when we were young, for some that may be harder, but remember being taught that a solid handshake makes the introduction? That a crushing grip makes you feel like the man(or Woman)? Well to sound like a sales pitch, it is one, but a non-commissioned one based upon something I've started using.

The Heavy Grip brand decided to upgrade those little desktop ones which everyone can squeeze until they get tired, to something that gives a solid workout, stress release and fits into any corner of your bag with ease. The grippers come in sizes from 100 lbs up, by 50 lb increments to 350 lbs and are lightweight to carry but hard to close. I've worked my way up to 150 lbs reliably and can close the 200 lb one with some struggle, and it definitely has been working to develop my crushing grip...solely so i can open a walnut with my fingers by squeezing. ...

But seriously, I recommend them b/c they're easy to fit anywhere in the bag, lightweight and give an easy stress release/workout when your only other option might be doing laps around an airport terminal or parking lot. 

Cold Weather Gear is coming out

So it's that great time of year again...not time to break out the shorts, but time to break out the sweats, long sleeve shirts and cold gear. Each time I pull all the gear out I take a long look...go for a run on a treadmill...and realize freezing my butt off is much much better.

I mean I've reviewed treadmills, even though I swear there are only 2-3 commercial variants out there, and have zero interest in a home unit. But each time I run on one, I feel weird. I can do sprints but if I'm stuck indoors I prefer to throw the bike up on my trainer, the good ole Green Machine as I call it. Technically its the Kinetic, but for a fluid trainer its solid. I know purists prefer the fan one b/c the response is more realistic on acceleration and deceleration, but I'm not a purist, nor a professional so this is perfect for me. The big advantage is that i can throw the arm rests on the bike...and play on my ps3 while biking to keep it from being too boring(highly recommend getting a pair).

Otherwise, time to head outside, break out the cold weather gear and try to avoid getting run over by a reindeer.

My other blog

So I have another blog, and I'm going to do a shameless plug in this one...so bear with me. One of my passions is energy, specifically green energy and distributed/localized power generation...and I don't currently work in that industry. In order to keep myself active and up to date on the topics I keep a blog up at GreeneModel.blogspot.com called Green Energy Thoughts. As time goes on I plan to talk about issues associated with wind energy, fuel cells, solar etc and will probably even put some information derived from the models I make on the side for fun(yes huge nerd).

But take a look and let me know if you have any interests, or topics you'd like to hear about as I have ~10 years experience in Fuel Cells, Geothermal, Solar, battery tech and then grid analysis and load based power modeling!

The latter, load based power modeling, is how i came up with a lot of my runs back in the day as I was able to travel to some great(and not so great) locations. happy trails

NYRR Post, again

Still beating this horse, probably because I still have quite a bit of anger over how this was handled and how the CEO of the NYRR's basically punted the decision to someone else...while being the friggin CEO. That's the only thing a CEO needs to really do other than glad-hand....so she's basically useless.

The NYPost has a good article on how she should be fired, the latest in a long line of articles on that idea.

Back to my puzzle though since it's a little dark out to go for a real run! Of course football is also on in the background because I can never focus on just one thing.