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Race Report: 2013 Wyckoff triathlon

Jun

15

2013

Took part today in the 2013 edition (31st Annual) Wyckoff triathlon. Its very popular ( usually has over 900 participants) local triathlon held in the Franklin Lakes/Wyckoff area. The race itself is a somewhere between a sprint and Olympic distance race. Its a 800m swim, 17mile bike and 5 mile run. Pre-race Getting up about ...

Race Report: 2013 Ironman 70.3 Eagleman triathlon 1

Jun

11

2013

This is my second attempt at the 70.3 distance, having done the 2012 Amica 70.3 Ironman in Providence, Rhode Island. I choose this 70.3 because after last year’s tough Providence Rhode Island course, I felt this flatter and hopefully faster course will suit me better. Good thing I did because they actually discontinued the 70.3 ...

Race Report & Photos : Nav-e-Sink or swim 2013 2

Jun

2

2013

Today, I took part in the 8th annual Nave-sink -or- swim, it’s a an open water swim race and festival held in Rumson, NJ at the navesink inlet at Victory Park. Again this year , like last year the weather was perfect, and the water was calm and myself plus around 400 swimmers, got ready ...

Race Photos: Mayor’s Trophy 5k Run Rahway

May

28

2013

Today a some friends of mine took part in the 2013 Mayor’s Trophy 5k Run Rahway held at Rahway City hall Congrats to all the winners and finishers! It was a fun event, and below are a few select photos from the event . I have uploaded all the photos here to my Picasa Albums linked ...

2013 Harryman Olympic Triathlon race report 1

May

19

2013

Today I took part in the 2013 edition of the Harryman Olympic triathlon. Its an annual race put together by Genesis adventures in Harriman State park , starting at Lake Welch. I chose this race because its fairly close but even more motivating was the 10:30am start time. This is the latest start to any ...

HTTP long poll example in php ajax 4

May

11

2013

[icon name=”paper-plane” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] UPDATED: A better and easier way to do this is via Server Sent Events, Check out my recent post. Simple and easy PHP example of how to integrate long-polling (“hanging GET”) to simulate server PUSH and add more dynamic content to your web pages. As a standard HTTP is terrific protocol ...

Race Photos 2013 NJ Half Marathon 1

May

8

2013

Today a few friends of mine took part in the NJ Half Marathon in Long Branch and surrounding towns Congrats to all the winners and finishers! It was a fun event, and below are a few select photos from the event … Here’s a youtube video:

the Equilateral triathlon: giving swimmers more equality… 4

Apr

30

2013

For those of us who do multi-sport events, notably triathlons, it might have occurred to you that why do the triathlon distances seem to have shorter legs (time wise) for swimming relative to the other two sports? This is an interesting topic and the idea of having more uniform triathlon distance , known as the ...

Review: Pivothead Durango video sunglasses 6

Apr

23

2013

I recently purchased a pair of Pivothead Durango video sunglasses which replaced my recently broken Inventio-HD 720P . I had to return the Inventio-HD 720P because of an apparent hardware issue, I was not longer able to record or save/update to the memory drive on the device, tried everything but something went awry. Pivothead Reviews and ...