INTERESTING...

Al Gore just accepted the Nobel Peace Price for his work on Global Warming and here in Chattanooga, TN the temperature is around the high 70's.

Other interesting environmental news from Chattanooga's American Hiking Society:

Today, Wilbur Smith Associates released a long awaited Economic Development and Transportation Summary related to the Corridor K project. While I have not yet had time to review this report in detail, I am making it available for concerned citizens to look at here.

Corridor K in a Global Economy: A Summary of the Economic Development and Transportation Study. (113 KB)

Stay tuned for more information about Corridor K as studies related to the project, including the development of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) are completed. This process will take several years to unfold, but we will follow along closely until our concerns are resolved.

Bill McKibben speaks about Chattanooga, TN's environment and community, touring the city and speaking about its green efforts.

"It always seems impossible until it's done" Nelson Mandela

I had to tell my friends over at commutebybike that I have officially switched to running. This morning I actually thought I was going to bike in because of the lack of water and the excessive amount of brownies I ate last night. I even hit the snooze button. But the second I felt the brisk 30 degree weather with a nice morning breeze, I grabbed my mp3 player and me and Bono went for a run.

Goals

I have been doing some serious thinking about my goals for 2008. Next year will be a pivotal year for me personally and professionally. I will elaborate on this issue later, but one of my goals will definitely pertain to educating others and myself on alternative energy.

It all comes back to the simplicity of biking to work. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if you are a nature-lover, health fanatic, or just plain cheap-skate - the bottom line is the bottom line, and that is = you have more money in your back pocket if you bike to work as opposed to if you drive your car to work.

In the next couple of years I believe this movement will transgress into our aging power grid and companies and individuals will be more creative when thinking of their home power, rather than just paying your local power company whatever they tell you to pay.

I will be the first to admit that I'm not the smartest knife in the drawer. However, neither are many of the individuals on the Forbes 400. The difference is they are hard-working individuals that were very perceptive in looking at long-term growth trends.

So today we have google, the most progressive corporation in the world investing heavily in alternative energy to get off the power grid, because they think they can generate it cheaper themselves and Kleiner Perkins, arguably the most successful venture capitalist firm in the world investing very heavily in alternative energy.

Additionally, another individual I highly respect, Vinod Khosla is solely focused on alternative energy. Other individuals that are more controversial that have publicly stated alternative energy is the next big thing is Sir Richard Branson and Bill Clinton. Regardless of your personal feelings towards these individuals, it would be hard to argue that these individuals are not successful.

Alas, I challenge all of you to take a step back and think about your impact on the world. I am very blessed to have a handful of really great friends in my life. One characteristic they all share, is that they all want to be VERY successful, but perhaps more importantly, they all want to make a difference in the world, AND this is the reason they are my best friends.

What is your impact on the world?

Weekend Recap

I had a great weekend hanging out with a good friend on Friday and then watching the Ironman World Championships Saturday night. The good news is if you missed it ironman.com is telling everyone it will be on today at 4:30. If this is the result of the writers strike I wouldn't mind if they didn't come back!

Also, Ironman Australia is up on ironman.com for all who are interested.

The lottery is also open. Although I have heard from other bloggers that the passport club really improves your odds, I'm not ready to pony up the extra coin for it this year.

Will Bicycling to Work Get You Killed? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Will Bicycling to Work Get You Killed? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

I HOPE NOT!!!!

Don't worry, I definitely won't be in to Christmas as much as these guys are!

I had a great run in this morning. It was a cool 38 degrees but oddly I was never cold and even got pretty hot towards the end. This got me to thinking. With all of the running I will be doing this winter, why don't I do another marathon?

The only real reason is the money. But, it would definitely give me so e motivation and I would love to run one in late February so I could carry my "yet to be born" daughter across the finish line. Although, her mother, who has never seen me finish a marathon, may be a little sceptical about letting me hold her after 4 hours of running.

I'm browsing my favorite marathon site for some cool events this winter, but if any of you have any suggestions please leave a comment or send me an email.

If I lived in NYC I would definitely live here

trifit

trifit

Going to the Grey City

Hopefully I can get some good running in at Central Park to work off some of the great food I plan to partake in.

"I once met three guys named pain, suffering and sacrifice. Now we are inseperable. We are best friends." - Lance Armstrong

I need to step-up my cycling in a major way for these targets.

I have been biking only around 100 miles a week and running around 20 miles a week.

From endurancecoach.com

General Guide to winter Mileage Targets for Different events

	Junior	Elite Junior	Age Group	Elite
Sprint	20	n/a	40	n/a
Triathlon	40	70	60	80
1/2 Ironman	n/a	n/a	90	120
Ironman	n/a	n/a	180	200

http://trifuel.com/training/bike/winter-bike-training-target-specific-areas-to-improve

Corner the Market

Corner the Market

Very weird...

I ran in this morning and it was the very frigid temperature of 58 degrees

My google page rank has gone from 5 to 2 in the past week...

Are there any small business owners out there familiar with free CRM software?

Chattanooga is an awesome town.


Every year I like it more and more. However, Portland's bike scene seems pretty nice too. I'm sure in a couple of years Chattanooga will have the same type of scene.

One thing that is particularly interesting is that we don't have any hand-made bike manufacturer's in Chattanooga. I guess that is because we are in the land of Litespeed.

I'm currently on a quest to find a great headline banner for my blog so if there are any suggestions please leave a comment.

In my research, I think trigeekdreams.com has the best banner.

As for training, I keep biking more than running, but I think that is about to change with the recent weather changes.

Hope all is well out there i tri-land!

Since my wife became pregnant we are emphatic on eliminating High Fructose Corn Syrup from our diet.

Here is a great link to a list of foods that are free of this evil juice!

Another tattoo for me!

When I first saw this tattoo I thought it was the coolest thing ever from PaceTat. However, about half of my time in a marathon is spent figuring out what pace I'm running at so now I don't know if this is such a cool thing after all.