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Tonight is a milestone of sorts. It was my last lengthy workout prior to my ironman. I was supposed to start tapering on Saturday last, but swimming isn’t high impact so I think I’m still safe. From now until November 7, I’ll be doing some workouts, but they’ll be medium-intensity and short. Nothing to break …

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I seem to be on a Youtube kick recently. Watch out for the monkey.

How could I possibly change this setting?

Here I sit, procrastinating on some of the work I must do, and I find this. Much fun. Especially the animation. The robot is pretty cool, too.

Some weeks are better than others. This is true in all aspects of life, especially endurance race training. The flipside of that statement is that some weeks are worse than others. Some weeks make you wonder what the hell you’re doing attempting something like this (where “this” can be defined by any sort of breakthrough …

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I’m not used to having this much rain come down around here. The forecast for the next week is more of the same. If this keeps up, we’ll have a foot of rain over two weeks.

Last weekend was the Faster Mustache 24 Hour Urban Bicycle Rally, of which I was a participant. I was introduced to this particular race last year by David Tyberg (a.k.a Professor Dimitri von Stadberg of The Extraordinary Contraptions, playing Thursday at the EARL!) and got roped into it this summer. The race concept was simple. …

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A seven year old girl was killed by my namesake (hurricane Bill) at Acadia National Park when several people were swept off a cliff by a rogue wave. This happened at Thunder Hole, a popular destination at the park.

Through intimidation, mockery and cajoling, I’ve managed to get people to do all of my work and supply me with numerous entries in my 24 Character Joke contest (Prize is Cookies!). Here are what I’ve selected as the top five: Dr said run 4 my health It’s just a flesh wound Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! …

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You’ve been watching The Guild, right? Season three is coming up soon! Like, 5 days on Xbox Live and 10 days to the general population! If you haven’t been watching then shame on you. Start here and watch the first season, then go here and watch the second season, then watch this. Totally awesome: