07.26.06 - packing for nationals

is what has been going down. lights charged, pit crew came (dad/drew/my sister) and picked up the majority of my stuff, and now i am getting last minute stuff ready like...

1. new batteries for heart rate monitors
seems my sigma heart rate monitors go through a ton of batteries - as soon as they get a little weak, they stop working. i'm thinking of switching out to polar as it has some options for wattage, which i don't know if the wattage numbers are accurate. anybody that can give me some feedback in this area? ideally, it would need to work with both my road and mountain bike.

2. loading up the ipod
getting some new tunes on the nano - considering riding with it during the night, but we'll see.

3. reading material for the flight
i am now on a mission to read "a scanner darkly" by philip k. dick before i see it in the theatres. if you haven't seen the trailer for it, check it out. very cool filming. and for you NPR freaks, you may want to see if there are any podcasts out there - they had 45 minutes of interviews yesterday regarding the film. incidentally, this same authors writing's can easily be seen to have an influence on films like total recall and the matrix series. and - blade runner is also another movie that was based on his book "do androids dream of electric sheep"... food for thought.

4. setting up audio updates for the pit crew:
now completed and tested. possible text updates as well.


random updates:

1. another ernesto interview
happening this friday. can't let the secret out of the bag yet, but stayed tuned for more details.

2. SRAM is in the 'goat house.
that is, speedgoat. chris at the shop has the new SRAM road stuff in and installed and once again, he has a blog entry with crazy detail.

read the entry at the speedgoat blog called LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP

that's it - gotta run. my offical "freaking out time" before a 24 hour race has now started and is in full effect, so please excuse my randomness of the upcoming week.

stay tuned...

sologoat