The Canary In The Coal Mine by Rappstar

Nice little piece of writing by Jordan Rapp

The Canary In The Coal Mine

Bonnie D. Ford of ESPN wrote an excellent piece on the Tour. In it, she talks about Sastre and Evans and the rest of the top-10 riders being escorted to doping control before doing any of the media events. Can you imagine that in baseball? Or football? Imagine the entire NY Giants team filing into a tent for blood samples before the accepted the Lombardi Trophy. Or Kevin Garnett being chaperoned off to a secret locale before donning his NBA Championship had. Unfortunately, I can't.

Shawn Merion had a positive doping test a few years ago and received a four game suspension, that he protested (so he kept playing) until it was convenient to serve. Can you imagine if the Chargers decided to leave the NFL for a season instead (as Sanier-Duval did this year)?Until baseball changed its drug testing policy, you had to be caught for doping FIVE TIMES in ONE YEAR in order to be suspended for a year.

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Parenting

So far so good along the parenting front. Not too many sleepless nights so far. Little Oliver is starting to find a bit of a rhythm and we are even seeing a few hours of uninterrupted sleep at night.
Unfortunately one of his favorite places to sleep is on one of our stomachs as we are laying on the couch or bed. Pretty nice for us as well but I don't think you sleep as well when they are that close.
I am sure that I am some what sleep deprived as I fell asleep on the couch tonight before dinner and missed the phone ringing at my feet.
Hopefully we can establish a bit of a routine soon as I would love to get back to a bit of exercise soon and limit my lose of fitness.
I have touched base with a few of those that did Placid and it got my fires burning. I need to make a plan for the coming fall and next season.
Off to bed as it looks like the boy might cooperate again tonight and go down early.
Hope I didn't just jinx us.

Congrats Ironman LP Athletes

Sitting here watching the last few finishers of this years IM LP I am having mixed emotions.

I am still glad I made the decision not to race. Family and my business needed to take priority over the race and there is only so much energy to go around. However it would have been great to have that feeling of crossing the finish line again knowing that all that hard work had paid off.

That being said, watching the Ironman Live coverage has kept my Iron fire burning.

I am not sure when I will do another but I am going to start to make a multi year plan to get myself to the start line in the next few years.

I just watched the last Kingston Finisher cross the line. "Congrats Joan!"

A few weeks ago I did the run portion of the Smiths Fall Tri and had a blast. It reminded me of how much fun it is to go short and fast. With that in mind I think I am going to try and do a multi year build that gradually increases the race distances each year. A more traditional approach instead of going long to kick things off.

Welcome Oliver