My Bookmarks en-us http://biketechreview.com/archive/pm_review.htm http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=12998 A good article on active.com about carbo-loading. http://www.oklahomabicyclesociety.com/hintstips/bikefit.htm Another article on propper bike fitting. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/kops.html A good discussion on why the knee over pedal spindal (KOPS) method is bogus. http://www.slowtwitch.com/mainheadings/techctr/bikefit.html A good article on fitting a triathlon bike or adding areo bars to road bike. http://www.triathletes-uk.org/info/etiquette.html http://www.annapolisstriders.org/ These guys put on the B&A Trail Half Marathon, the Governor's Bay Bridge Run and the Annapolis 10 Miler. All good runs. http://www.honolulumarathon.org/ A beautiful course, but hot. http://www.mccshawaii.com/cgfit.htm An excellent sprint tri on the Marine Corps Base. http://www.mayorsmarathon.com/ http://www.bocahawaii.com/races.php 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. http://www.mysticplacesmarathon.org/ A small really really flat marathon at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme, Connecticut. http://www.perimeterrun.org/ A really fun event! If you are into long crazy races. http://www.mprrc.com/index.html A fun, super low key, and small 10 miler on Oahu. http://www.tricolumbia.org/chesapeakeman.asp The Chesapeakeman iron distance triathlon. An awesome race, on a fast course, an hour away from Annapolis. http://www.ex2adventures.com/tcm/ 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). http://www.marinemarathon.com/ 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. http://www.thenationstriathlon.com/ A cool race through downtown DC. It is a lot of fun biking on rock creek parkway and around the monuments. http://www.timbermantri.com/timberman.html This was a great race in NH. Definately the best organized triathlon I have ever done. http://www.potomacvelo.com This is an awesome local MTB series. The trails are great and the Potomac Velo Club does a great job putting it on. http://www.xterraplanet.com/race/ http://sheldonbrown.com/chains.html http://www.bme.szm.sk/bambooframe.htm This is pretty cool. I want to build/grow one. http://www.slowtwitch.com/mainheadings/features/bikebiz.html An excellent acticle about how bikes are manufactured and the roll of Taiwan in bike building process. http://www.bikeforest.com/CAD/ An online java applet for designing bike frames. Pretty Cool. http://www.biketechreview.com/archive/Campy_vs_Shimano.htm This article compares and summarizes the differences between Campagnolo and Shimano components. Additionally it compares the different group levels from both. http://www.slowtwitch.com/mainheadings/prodreview/components/campyvda.html This article written by Slowman on slowtwitch compares Dura Ace with Campy's Record 10 group. http://www.bikemagic.com/news/article/mps/UAN/3173/v/4/sp/332856388245664714384 http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/howibuil.htm Another really interesting article on Sheldon Brown's site. http://dougal.co.nz/ http://www.parktool.com/repair_help/FAQindex.shtml An excellent bike maintenance resource. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech An awesome forum for discussing bike maintenance. http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/hub.html This guy has written a huge amount about bicycle repair and technology. Definately worth the read. http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content/cycle/sac/us/en.html The Shimano site has technical documentation on their components. http://www.sram.com/en/sram/ Makers of Chains, Cassettes, Shocks and Brakes. http://www.cervelo.com/index2.html Maker of triathlon and road bikes. http://www2.trekbikes.com/ 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! http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/index.html I have always been sceptical of their 'lefty' fork mountain bikes. http://www.diamondback.com/home.asp http://www.feltracing.com/HOME.html http://www.giant-bicycle.com/us/000.000.000/000.000.000.asp http://www.gurubikes.com/english.html Maker of road and triathlon bikes. I haven't tried any of these. http://www.ifbikes.com/ Custom built steel and titanium bikes. Mostly road, cycle cross, and touring. http://www.konaworld.com/index.cfm Mostly makes mountain bikes, downhill, and some touring and commuting bikes. I haven't riden any of these. http://www.rooworld.com/bikes/2006/default.aspx http://www.schwinnbike.com/products/ http://www.specialized.com/bc/home.jsp Their web site is surprisingly complicated to find bikes. http://mountainbike1.com/ Lots of race information for the mid-atlantic region. http://www.more-mtb.org/ http://www.mtbr.com/ 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. http://www.bikeforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=26 http://forums.mtbr.com/ http://www.xterraplanet.com/race/ http://www.adventurecycling.org/ 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. http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?cid=1080080554487&pagename=Amtrak%2Fam2Copy%2FSimple_Copy_Page&c=am2Copy http://www.trailwaysny.com/html/english/travel_info_baggage.asp http://rogercortesi.com/trip_BOS_to_DC/biketrip.htm My bike trip from Boston to Washington DC in August of 2000. http://members.shaw.ca/boxyourbike/ A good description of how to box a bike, with photos. http://www.triathlonstickers.com/the_fly_free_bike_box.htm This shows how to build your own bike box that comes in under the airline's 62" box size requirements. http://www.mvermeulen.com/biketrips.html 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. http://www.dot.state.ny.us/pubtrans/bikemap.html Get free bike maps of New York from the NYDOT. http://fordyce.org/scanboard/viewforum.php?f=164 http://www.gm4jjj.co.uk/PCR1000.html http://www.mv.net/ipusers/cdwalker/pcrd.html A unix command line tool for operating the Icom PCR-1000. http://www.mahy.demon.co.uk/talkpcr/talkpcr.htm 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. http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/bydate A cocoa programing resource. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/ct/37 http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/ OS X development mailling list home. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/publ-tips/ This page has many good tips for being effective at scientific publishing. http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=195 An on-the-fly spell checker for VIM. http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-2.html A good listing of almost all LaTeX commands and how they work. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf An excellent guide for getting started and using LaTeX. http://www.latex2html.org/ An excellent way of generating web documents from LaTeX. http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ My TeX (LaTeX) editor of choise on OS X. http://www.vim.org/ One of my favorite editors. http://www.lukedavison.net/?func=projects&id=11 http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/quickref.html http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2000 These are the enclosures I use for backing up my computers. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/ Lots of good information about the TS-7200 and TS-7250. Technologic's employees post daily. http://www.embeddedx86.com/epc/ts7200-spec-h.html 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. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ http://validator.w3.org/ http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/google-privacy.html This is an excellent and short how to on how to prevent Google from associating your searchs with you. http://www.apple.com/macosx/ The best operating system out there. http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/ Good discussion here on BSD type issues. http://www.debian.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php http://www.netbsd.org/ http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=64 Makers of the PIC. http://dspvillage.ti.com/ http://www.activestate.com/ Excellent free distributions of Perl, Python, Tk/TCL and more for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/index.php Almost certainly the best php toolset for creating very high quality and flexible plots on the fly. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/asm/artofasm/artof001.htm http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml My favorite programming editor for OS X. http://colloquy.info/ My IRC client of choise for OS X. http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/HowTo/Startup/index.ws A discussion and examples of making startup item in OS X (Panther). http://www.fif3.com/howto/archives/001983.html https://lucky.phpwebhosting.com/~rcortesi/ideas/topicdirs/myosx/OSXshortcuts.pdf Boot, Finder, Expose, and other keyboard short cuts. http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/cvsoverview.html http://fink.sourceforge.net/ An excellent tool for installing many common unix applications on OS X. http://www.panic.com/unison/ My newsreader of choise for OS X. http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ An excellent way to findout about new software and updates. http://httpd.apache.org/ http://durak.org/cvswebsites/doc/ An excellent guide to using cvs. http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/ GPSMan is a stand-alone Tcl/Tk program for ploting gps information under the GNU Public License. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ 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. http://www.openoffice.org/ A real cross platform replacement for Microsoft Office. http://phpicalendar.net/ A good php web calendar. http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ An excellent file transfer and syncronization utility. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935 screen an excellent terminal multiplexer. http://rucus.ru.ac.za/docs/screen/index.html#Top screen is an awesome text based window manager for the hardcore unix power users. http://subversion.tigris.org/ A better replacement for CVS http://www.accutracking.com/ Free gps enabled cell phone tracking http://tlb.org/scooter.html This guy built his own Seqway Scooter, and tells you how. http://www.bdel.com/gear/lightware_overview.php 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. http://www.cateye.com/en/index.php These are some of my favorite cycle computers. http://www.desotosport.com/home/index.shtml These guys make great triathlon clothing, wetsuits, etc. Their customer service is great. http://www.gregorypacks.com/ 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. http://www.polarusa.com/consumer/default.asp 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. http://www.profile-design.com/ They guys make some good triathlon bike accessories and components. http://www.roadid.com/default.asp I'm a big fan of the shoe ID. I put my blood type on mine. http://www.yakima.com/home.html I like these roof racks better than Thule. http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/70245362.html 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg Weird Al doing a Bob Dillan take off completely in palindromes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChBKqcRpmDs http://www.garmin.com/ Makers of excellent GPS receivers http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ A site that generates SVG files from GPS track files. It will also return the lat and long for a street address. http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/ 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. http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/ GPSMan is a stand-alone Tcl/Tk program for ploting gps information under the GNU Public License. http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ IfSAR and LIDAR data for coast lines of the US. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/dataexplorer/data_topics/welcome.html A portal to NOAA's mapping and imagery products. Select the "search for data" in the "Aerial Photography and Shoreline Mapping" Section. http://www.chimoosoft.com/terrabrowser.html An OS X app for overlaying gps tracks and waypoints on topo maps and overhead imagery. The maps and images are downloaded automatically. http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp This site documents the GPX xml format. http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=21402 https://mypay.dfas.mil/mypay.aspx https://enews.nrl.navy.mil/exchange/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns My favorite science publication. http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.dpreview.com/ The comprehensive site on digital camera information. http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php An excellent command line image manipulation program. http://www.photools.com/ This probably the best image management tool for windows, at a bargan of a price. http://www.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. http://rogercortesi.com/trip_BOS_to_DC/biketrip.htm My Bike trip from Boston to Washington DC in August 2000. http://rogercortesi.com/misc/showbookreviews.php My book reviews. http://rogercortesi.com/portf/index.html My Design Portfolio http://lucky.phpwebhosting.com/~rcortesi/athleticlog/login.php A free mutli sport online athletic training log with advanced features. http://www.rogercortesi.com/athleticlog_help/html_multi/node1.html http://rogercortesi.com/private/linkedit.php http://rogercortesi.com/misc/showlinks.php My listing of links and bookmarks that I have found useful or cool. http://rogercortesi.com/ideas/index.php http://rogercortesi.com/cal/week.php http://rogercortesi.com/eqn/index.php Enter a LaTeX equation string and get a high quality customizable image file of the equation. http://rogercortesi.com/photo2/index.php My photography portfolio from 1992 to present. http://lucky.phpwebhosting.com/~rcortesi/maint/index.php My online vehicle maintenance log that I use for tracking maintenance on my car and bikes. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.triathlon This is where I do most of my triathlon reading on the web. http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?forum=1 http://www.trifuel.com/forums/ This site has a pretty good begginer forum. http://www.triweek.com/ http://www.usatriathlon.org/ The governing body for triathlons in the US. Membership is worth it if you are going to do more than 3 triathlons a year. http://www.ultrunr.com/ An excellent site on ultra marathons. Lots of good information which is well sorted and easy to find. http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm http://www.videoray.com/index.htm Makers of a small ROV. http://active.com/ http://www.analyticcycling.com/ Analytic Cycling provides technical methods for evaluating and estimating cycling performance and parameters. It makes extensive use of differential equations and advanced numerical methods http://www.athleteshi.com/ Looking for a race in Hawaii... look no further. http://rogercortesi.com/athleticlog/fluidloss.php This page calculates an estimate for fluid loss due to exercise. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ 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. http://www.humanpowered.org/default.view A site with links to lots of human power expedition travelloques from around the world. Deffinately some neat reading. http://www.motionbased.com/index.jsp 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. http://www.runnersweb.com/ This site has a huge number of links and information on running. http://lucky.phpwebhosting.com/~rcortesi/athleticlog/download/training_scheduler.xls This is an Excel sheet for calculating training volume and type using the SERIOUS Training Method (See SERIOUS Training for Endurance Atheletes). http://rogercortesi.com/athleticlog/wristsplits.php 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. http://rogercortesi.com/athleticlog/ My online athletic training log. http://www.trifind.com/ A really complete national and international triathlon calendar. http://www.us-national-parks.net/index.html Lots of really good information about all the US National Parks. Great for planning trips!