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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 ...

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 ...