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Athletic Articles
- A Technical Comparison of Bike Power Meters
- Art of Carb Loading
- A good article on active.com about carbo-loading.
- Bike Fitting
- Another article on propper bike fitting.
- Myths of Bike Fitting
- A good discussion on why the knee over pedal spindal (KOPS) method is bogus.
- Tri Bike Fit
- A good article on fitting a triathlon bike or adding areo bars to road bike.
- Triathlon T-Shirt Etiquette
Athletic Events
- Annapolis Striders
- These guys put on the B&A Trail Half Marathon, the Governor's Bay Bridge Run and the Annapolis 10 Miler. All good runs.
- Honolulu Marathon
- A beautiful course, but hot.
- MAG-24 Sprint Triathlon
- An excellent sprint tri on the Marine Corps Base.
- Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon
- Mountain Man and Lanikai Triathlons
- Boca Hawaii runs both the mountain man triathlon (which has the best mountain biking on Oahu), the Lanikai Triathlon, and many other races. All really good.
- Mystic Places Marathon
- A small really really flat marathon at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme, Connecticut.
- Oahu Perimeter Run
- A really fun event! If you are into long crazy races.
- Schofield Barracks 10 Miler (mprrc)
- A fun, super low key, and small 10 miler on Oahu.
- The Chesapeakeman Ultra
- The Chesapeakeman iron distance triathlon. An awesome race, on a fast course, an hour away from Annapolis.
- The Cranky Monkey Mountain Bike Series
- A three race series in the DC metro area. The races take place at Wakefield Park (Annandale VA) and Fountainhead Regional Park (Fairfax Station VA).
- The Marine Corps Marathon
- This race is great. It is really well organized. The course is flat and fast. Going trough Georgetwon and passed all the monuments and the capital is great. The bit over the 14th street bridge and passed the Pentagon is not so nice.
- The Nation's Triathlon
- A cool race through downtown DC. It is a lot of fun biking on rock creek parkway and around the monuments.
- Timberman Triathlon
- This was a great race in NH. Definately the best organized triathlon I have ever done.
- Wednesday Night at Wakefield MTB Series
- This is an awesome local MTB series. The trails are great and the Potomac Velo Club does a great job putting it on.
- xterra off-road triathlon
Biking: Building and Maintenance
- An article on chain mainteance
- Bamboo Bike Frame
- This is pretty cool. I want to build/grow one.
- Bike manufacturing and Taiwan
- An excellent acticle about how bikes are manufactured and the roll of Taiwan in bike building process.
- BikeCAD
- An online java applet for designing bike frames. Pretty Cool.
- Cycle Component Comparison
- This article compares and summarizes the differences between Campagnolo and Shimano components. Additionally it compares the different group levels from both.
- Cycle Component Comparison II
- This article written by Slowman on slowtwitch compares Dura Ace with Campy's Record 10 group.
- Dialing in Mountain Bike Suspention
- Garage Built Composite BIke
- Another really interesting article on Sheldon Brown's site.
- Mountain Bike Suspension Diagrams
- Park Tool Co's Bike Repair Site
- An excellent bike maintenance resource.
- rec.bicycles.tech newsgroup
- An awesome forum for discussing bike maintenance.
- Sheldron Brown's Cycling Site
- This guy has written a huge amount about bicycle repair and technology. Definately worth the read.
- Shimano Bicycle Components
- The Shimano site has technical documentation on their components.
- The SRAM, Rock Shox, and Avid Site
- Makers of Chains, Cassettes, Shocks and Brakes.
Biking: Manufactures I Like
- Cervelo
- Maker of triathlon and road bikes.
- Trek
- WE LOVE TREK! We are a diehard Trek family! We own 4 Treks for two people! And we are really happy with all of them!
Biking: Manufactures Other
- Cannondale
- I have always been sceptical of their 'lefty' fork mountain bikes.
- Diamondback
- Felt
- Giant
- Guru
- Maker of road and triathlon bikes. I haven't tried any of these.
- Independent Fabrication
- Custom built steel and titanium bikes. Mostly road, cycle cross, and touring.
- Kona
- Mostly makes mountain bikes, downhill, and some touring and commuting bikes. I haven't riden any of these.
- Quintana Roo
- Schwinn
- Specialized
- Their web site is surprisingly complicated to find bikes.
Biking: Mountain
- Mid-Atlantic Mountain Bike Racing
- Lots of race information for the mid-atlantic region.
- MORE (Mid Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts)
- Mountain Bike Review
- A sign with lots of trail and product review. Most positive bike reviews are not that helpful because people tend to like the bike the they just bought. I learn much more from the negative reviews.
- MTB forum on bikeforums.net
- MTB forum on mtbreview.com
- xterra planet- home of the off road triathlon
Biking: Travel and Touring
- Adventure Cycling Association
- These guys make awesome bike maps for planning and executing long distance trips. The maps show less crowded roads, elevation, bike stores, camp grounds, motels, water etc.
- Bicycles on Amtrak
- Bikes on Trailways Busses
- Biking from Boston to Washington DC
- My bike trip from Boston to Washington DC in August of 2000.
- Boxing a Bike
- A good description of how to box a bike, with photos.
- DIY Bike Box
- This shows how to build your own bike box that comes in under the airline's 62" box size requirements.
- Mike Vermeulen's Bike Trips
- This guys has biked everywhere. If you are thinking of taking a long bike trip he has probably done it, or one very close to it. Lots of good reading.
- New York State Bicycle Maps
- Get free bike maps of New York from the NYDOT.
Communications
- Anne Arundel County Frequencies
- Icom PCR-1000 Control Codes
- pcrd
- A unix command line tool for operating the Icom PCR-1000.
- talkPCR
- This is an AWESOME piece of freeware. In controls an Icom PCR1000 radio. Will record the audio to your hard drive, with easy playback. Lots other good analysis and monitoring features.
Computers: Cocoa Programming
- cocoabuilder.com
- A cocoa programing resource.
- O'Reilly's Mac Development Center
- omnigroup.com
- OS X development mailling list home.
Computers: Editors
- Effective scientific electronic publishing
- This page has many good tips for being effective at scientific publishing.
- engspchk
- An on-the-fly spell checker for VIM.
- LaTeX, Command Help
- A good listing of almost all LaTeX commands and how they work.
- LaTex, The Not So Short Introduction
- An excellent guide for getting started and using LaTeX.
- latex2html
- An excellent way of generating web documents from LaTeX.
- TeXshop
- My TeX (LaTeX) editor of choise on OS X.
- VIM
- One of my favorite editors.
- VIM intro
- VIM quick reference
Computers: Hardware
- Firewire 800 External Drives for OS X
- These are the enclosures I use for backing up my computers.
- TS-7200 forum on Yahoo Groups
- Lots of good information about the TS-7200 and TS-7250. Technologic's employees post daily.
- TS-7200 PC104 ARM SBC
- An awesome PC104 sized computer that runs Debian. It draws less than 2 watts has onboard A/D, USB, ethernet, serial sports, and CF card. For less than $200.
Computers: HTML
- W3C css Validator
- W3C html validator
Computers: Misc
- Stopping Google logging
- This is an excellent and short how to on how to prevent Google from associating your searchs with you.
Computers: Operating Systems
- Apple's OS X
- The best operating system out there.
- BSD Forums
- Good discussion here on BSD type issues.
- Debian Linux
- FreeBSD Project
- FreeBSD vs. Linux
- NetBSD
- Suse Linux
Computers: PICs
- microchip
- Makers of the PIC.
- Texas Instrument DSP Home
Computers: Progamming
- Active State
- Excellent free distributions of Perl, Python, Tk/TCL and more for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
- jpgraph
- Almost certainly the best php toolset for creating very high quality and flexible plots on the fly.
- MySQL Reference Manual
- The Art of Assembly Language Programming
Computers: Software OS X
- BBEdit
- My favorite programming editor for OS X.
- Colloquy
- My IRC client of choise for OS X.
- Making Startup Items in OS X
- A discussion and examples of making startup item in OS X (Panther).
- OS X boot keys
- OS X shortcut keys (pdf) file
- Boot, Finder, Expose, and other keyboard short cuts.
- Setting up CVS on OS X
- The Fink Project
- An excellent tool for installing many common unix applications on OS X.
- Unison
- My newsreader of choise for OS X.
- Version Tracker OS X
- An excellent way to findout about new software and updates.
Computers: Software Unix
- Apache Web Server
- cvs manual
- An excellent guide to using cvs.
- GPSman
- GPSMan is a stand-alone Tcl/Tk program for ploting gps information under the GNU Public License.
- Making Rotating Snapshot Backups w/ rsync
- A good article decribing how to effiecently make rotating snapshot style backups with rsync. Without taking up a whole drive's space several times over.
- Open Office
- A real cross platform replacement for Microsoft Office.
- PHP iCalendar
- A good php web calendar.
- rsync
- An excellent file transfer and syncronization utility.
- screen introduction
- screen an excellent terminal multiplexer.
- screen user's manual
- screen is an awesome text based window manager for the hardcore unix power users.
- subversion
- A better replacement for CVS
Cool
- accutracking.com
- Free gps enabled cell phone tracking
- Build your own Segway Scooter
- This guy built his own Seqway Scooter, and tells you how.
Equipment: Athletic
- Black Diamond High Performance Lighting
- These guys make awesome headlamps. My favorite headlamps in my large collect are by these guys. My favortite is the NightRay ( http://www.bdel.com/gear/nightray.php ). It is bright and light enough to run comfortably with.
- Cat Eye Cycle Computers
- These are some of my favorite cycle computers.
- De Soto
- These guys make great triathlon clothing, wetsuits, etc. Their customer service is great.
- Gregory Mountain Products.
- A shameless plug for the manufacture of my backpack (the Robson Pro). It has proven itself to have lots of great features, haul a large amount comfortably, and be very rugged. When I have called the company with questions or suggests they have been prompt, courtious, and responsive.
- Polar Heart Rate Monitors
- Polar's user interface is MUCH better than the sigma sport I tried. Better feature set for the same price. I have S120 and it is sufficient for my needs.
- Profile Design
- They guys make some good triathlon bike accessories and components.
- Road ID
- I'm a big fan of the shoe ID. I put my blood type on mine.
- Yakima
- I like these roof racks better than Thule.
Funny
- Minuteman Trail Rant
- I found this rant on Craig's list. I found it pretty funny only because I have seen those type on the B & A trail. Although the B & A trail is much less crowded than the Minuteman Trail.
- palindromes Song
- Weird Al doing a Bob Dillan take off completely in palindromes.
- Torjan Horse Video
GPS
- Garmin
- Makers of excellent GPS receivers
- GPS Visualizer
- A site that generates SVG files from GPS track files. It will also return the lat and long for a street address.
- GPSBabel
- This software converts data from one GPS format to another. It runs on the various versions of Windows and *nix, BSD, OS X operating systems.
- GPSman
- GPSMan is a stand-alone Tcl/Tk program for ploting gps information under the GNU Public License.
- NOAA Coast Services Center
- IfSAR and LIDAR data for coast lines of the US.
- NOAA Data Explorer
- A portal to NOAA's mapping and imagery products. Select the "search for data" in the "Aerial Photography and Shoreline Mapping" Section.
- Terrabrowser
- An OS X app for overlaying gps tracks and waypoints on topo maps and overhead imagery. The maps and images are downloaded automatically.
- The GPX format
- This site documents the GPX xml format.
Information
- Annapolis Weather Forecast
Navy
- myPay
- NRL email
News and Magazines
- National Geographic
- The New Scientist
- My favorite science publication.
- The New York Times
Photography
- dpreview.com
- The comprehensive site on digital camera information.
- Image Magick
- An excellent command line image manipulation program.
- IMatch by Photools
- This probably the best image management tool for windows, at a bargan of a price.
- photo.net
- This this site first got started (early 90's) it was awesome. I used to keep the bulk of my portfolio on it. It has been commericalized and gone way down hill (IMO). But there is a lot of good information on it.
rogercortesi.com
- Biking From Boston to Washington DC
- My Bike trip from Boston to Washington DC in August 2000.
- Book Reviews
- My book reviews.
- Design Portfolio
- My Design Portfolio
- Digital Athletic Log
- A free mutli sport online athletic training log with advanced features.
- Digital Athletic Log Documentation
- Edit my links and book reviews
- Links and Bookmarks
- My listing of links and bookmarks that I have found useful or cool.
- My Digital Notebook
- My Schedule
- Online Equation Editor
- Enter a LaTeX equation string and get a high quality customizable image file of the equation.
- Photography Portfolio
- My photography portfolio from 1992 to present.
- Vehicle Maintenance Log
- My online vehicle maintenance log that I use for tracking maintenance on my car and bikes.
Triathlon: Forums
- rec.sport.triathlon newsgroup
- This is where I do most of my triathlon reading on the web.
- slowtwitch.com
- trifuel.com
- This site has a pretty good begginer forum.
- triweek.com
- USA Triathlon
- The governing body for triathlons in the US. Membership is worth it if you are going to do more than 3 triathlons a year.
Ultra Distance
- Kevin Sayers' UltRunR Web Site
- An excellent site on ultra marathons. Lots of good information which is well sorted and easy to find.
Underwater Vehciles
- AUVSI underwater contest
- Video Ray
- Makers of a small ROV.
Web Services: Athletic
- active.com
- Analytic Cycling
- Analytic Cycling provides technical methods for evaluating and estimating cycling performance and parameters. It makes extensive use of differential equations and advanced numerical methods
- Athletes HI (Hawaii Race Calendar/Mag)
- Looking for a race in Hawaii... look no further.
- Athletic Fluid Loss Calculator
- This page calculates an estimate for fluid loss due to exercise.
- Gmaps Pedometer
- This is WAY COOL! It allows you to mark a route on the google maps or overhead imagery with waypoints. It then calculates the distance of the route.
- HumanPowered.org
- A site with links to lots of human power expedition travelloques from around the world. Deffinately some neat reading.
- MotionBased
- Upload files from your GPS reciever and display them on arial photos, topo maps, street maps, etc. Display elevation profiles, speed and weather conditions. Very cool.
- Runners Web
- This site has a huge number of links and information on running.
- SERIOUS Training Excel Worksheet
- This is an Excel sheet for calculating training volume and type using the SERIOUS Training Method (See SERIOUS Training for Endurance Atheletes).
- Split Time Wrist Band Generator
- This page generates wrist bands with split times on them for a specified distance and goal time. Good for determining during a race/run if you are ahead or behind your goal time.
- The Digital Athletic Log
- My online athletic training log.
- trifind triathlon calendar
- A really complete national and international triathlon calendar.
- US National Park Net
- Lots of really good information about all the US National Parks. Great for planning trips!