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Friday, January 20, 2006

Get Your Geek On! IS LIVE!!!

Get Your Geek On! weekly podcast with The Tri-Geek Kahuna and me! That's right guys! It's finally here. We had some major technical difficulties to surmount, but in the spirit of our sport, we just kept going until we got to the finish line.

Please forgive the minor flaws here and there, and don't count how many times we say "um"! This is our first go, and for a first go, I think it ain't half bad. Have a listen, and stay tuned, the plan is to have subsequent podcasts every Friday for your long workouts. This podcast (as well as the ones to come) will be available for subscription in iTunes as well as on Podcast Alley (thanks for the reminder, William!), probably before the end of the weekend, so check back and sign up!

We want to spread the news as well, so just like when we moved to a new domain we're asking that you help us get the word out! Please refer your cyber friends to have a listen and leave a comment below letting us know that you sent them! The person with the most referrals will get this awesome TTW "Race Day" mousepad for free! Look down every morning and read the TTW Race Day Quote: "Race Day: To give up the day-to-day luxuries of the masses for the luxury of a day the masses will never have." Thanks for spreading the word! Next Friday we'll announce the winner.

All right, let's get it started, click the Swim Bike Run icon above (many thanks to Mr. Wil!!!) to Get Your Geek On!

37 Comments:

William said...: It's downloaded and will be cued into the ZEN before my long run tonight. Looking forward to the listen.

Hopefully you have a regular RSS/enclosure feed (feedburner?) so us non-Apple/ I tunes people can subscribe.

Make sure you list it, when you have a permenant feed, to Podcast Alley That will give you lots of traffic.; 9:21 AM
Phil said...: Sweet. Downloading has started....; 9:27 AM
TriSaraTops said...: Soooo excited for this! :) Thanks, Wil! Will keep me company on my long ride....in an airplane to DENVER tonight to visit friends! :); 10:06 AM
Chris said...: Congrats on your first episode! The podcast has been downloaded and I'll be tuning in right after I type this! :); 10:12 AM
jessie_tri_mn said...: Way to go guys! Am listening now. Sounds great. You and Kahuna make a dynamic duo. Look forward to adding you guys to my iTunes subscriptions :); 10:20 AM
stronger said...: Just finished the podcast- nice work.; 11:18 AM
Dave said...: Just finished listening to the podcast. Great job! Started off a little wierd but things took off pretty well after all the introductions. I loved your morning workout routine bit and the coaches corner. The Kahuna's New Year's Day tri was awesome! Great job, can't wait for next week's!? Is this weekly or monthly?; 11:25 AM
Cliff said...: Go Wil. Looking forwad to hearing yours and Kahuna's voice tonight.; 12:02 PM
Keryn said...: Just finished listening to it! It's awesome! Can't wait for next week!; 1:04 PM
Siren said...: Can't wait to listen to it on my run tomorrow morning!; 1:14 PM
soccerdad said...: you guys are awesome. i can't even imagine the amount of effort that you and k must have put into this.
the bloopers part is hilarious.
great job!; 1:19 PM
Bolder said...: Hello, my name is Bolder, I've never been to your site before, but I saw on Stronger's blog that you were doing a podcast, so I thought I'd drop by. Hopefully, this helps Carrie's numbers.

Anyone else that reads this, of course, remember 'Carrie sent you'...; 1:50 PM
walchka said...: Congrats! You and Kahuna did a great job. The bloopers at the end were very entertaining. I’m already looking forward to your next podcast.; 2:26 PM
Drew Holmes said...: WOW I just wasted an hour of my workday since I could not wait until my workout to listen! Great job and holy &@&*$@ I was the first voice on your new podcast...I am honored to be a part of the adventure. Loved the show. You both did great. Nice content. Loved the bloopers. Keep up the good work. I am subscribed!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THE HARD WORK we all love it and appreciate the time put in.; 2:45 PM
mipper said...: saw you linked on Keryn's site. calk one up for her for the mousepad.

btw, i am going to download it tonight for my 5 miler tomorrow. can't wait for something fresh on the mp3 player!; 3:06 PM
Flatman said...: I came by your site from Stronger and Keryn's sites too! ;); 3:50 PM
Mister P. said...: Bravo! Looking forward to future shows... Kind of slowed down my productivity at work since I'm listening to it here, but Friday's are supposed to be blow-off days anyway, right?; 4:21 PM
Dave said...: lol, just listened to it again, this time listening to the bloopers as well, hilarious!; 5:18 PM
Beansprout said...: Thanks so much for the podcast. Very entertaining and great content too! You're covering everything and it is greatly appreciated. Looking forward to the next one.; 5:51 PM
Shelley said...: Oh my god..i'm listening to this right now and I totally love it!! Thanks for doing this..you guys rock!!!; 6:16 PM
Bridget said...: I have been trying to listen to your podcast this afternoon but my kids keep chatting. I will have to save it for my next run. From what I have heard so far, it is awesome! I cannot wait to hear more.; 6:32 PM
Meagan said...: Will, this is AWESOME! :) You guys are amazing. I'm sooooo impressed!; 6:35 PM
tri-mama said...: Very cool guys! Listened while I was making dinner. I'll enjoy these with workouts in the future.; 6:49 PM
Anonymous said...: The Beansprout sent me over to take a peek, listen and I think she really wants the prize, to be honest!
Loping LouBob; 7:38 PM
Cliff said...: Very impressive, Wil.

Good job. I am listening to this right now.; 8:03 PM
BuckeyeRunner said...: Nice job! Thanks for doing this-it's awesome!; 8:25 PM
Jon (was) in Michigan said...: Ooo! Another contest! :) Beansprout gave me the heads up and sent me over here.

I still don't know what you do with a podcast except listen to it online.

Shelly said "I like the pain." :D

Still listening to it while I work here this morning. Love it, Wil!; 9:25 AM
Curtai said...: Very Kewl. I like the podcast!
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Here is a Question for the Coaches segment. I understand the importance and benefit of tapering for the Big event. What seems to be less published is how to train AFTER the event, especially if you have another event in a given period of time.

Example: Disney Marathon Jan 8, Mercedes Marathon Feb 12, What should the training look like in between?

Thanks,
Curtai; 10:29 AM
The Big Cheese said...: sorry but I am not really that familer with Podcasting. How do I a) download it and b) set up so that they auto download.

Thanks.; 2:03 PM
Lisa said...: Can't wait to be able to download the podcast on iTunes. What will it be called?

Sounds great so far!; 2:09 PM
Wil said...: Thanks for all of the awesome support guys!!

TBC: OK, to download from here, all you have to do is click the cover art, and it should begin playing in a new window. (and this is to Jon, too) To download it, just save it in your media player as it's playing. To subscribe to the RSS feed, just click on the feed button in the sidebar here ;)

Lisa: it's been submitted and accepted by the directories, iTunes takes about 24 hours to process things, so hopefully it will be available early Sunday morning (though I don't know if the weekends count toward the 24 hours, I would think so). It's called "Get Your Geek On! with the Tri-Geek Kahuna and Iron Wil"; 9:50 PM
TTUTri said...: Great work! Really enjoyed listening to this. BTW, you've got a great voice for podcasting!; 11:21 PM
'Zilla said...: Not half bad? Not half bad!? Are you kidding!? It's awesome! You guys ROCK! The training insight, the 3am tri (that's insane), the talk about weight...and of course the BLOOPERS! All of it, really, really amazing. I'm subscribed! What a great way to get through my 3+ hour runs coming up! Thank you so much!; 4:09 PM
Nikki said...: I'm a lurker, but I mentioned the podcast in the Carnival of Health and Fitness at Slim Spirited.; 10:56 PM
Kewl Nitrox said...: It's downloading now and I am excited just looking at the raving comments. I got refered to this by Chris' post at http://www.chivalry.net and the cheap bugger asked me to mention his name so he can get his hands on the mouse pad. :); 3:19 AM
Kewl Nitrox said...: Just gotta come back and say I am loving it. Great broadcast - I may have found the reason to finally get a iPod nano. :); 3:28 AM
Heather said...: Chris from Chivelry.net sent me and I look forward to the second one on my run tomorrow! Thanks guys.; 9:42 AM

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August, 2005	Steelhead	Half-Ironman
September, 2005	Niles Optimist	Long Sprint
October, 2005	LaSalle Bank	Marathon
May, 2006	Indy Mini	Half-Marathon
September, 2006	Wisconsin	Ironman
May, 2007	Wildflower	Olympic
June, 2007	Sunburst	Half-Marathon
June, 2007	High Cliff	Half-Ironman
July, 2007	Spirit of Racine	Half-Ironman
September, 2007	Wisconsin	Ironman

Well, crashing is never fun, and having fallen on my face several times throughout the course of my life, I've learned that there's something to be said for living with a mouth full of dirt: spitting mud is inevitably better than spitting blood, especially when falling in the first place is the result of my own carelessness.

So, I guess that putting up with the grains of sand crunching between my teeth for an eon up the road is just the price I have to pay for the mercy of the trade off. Maybe that's the real meaning of, "grit your teeth" and bear it - clever, in a kind of kick in the head sort of way - but OK. So just get back on the bike.

I will get where I'm going eventually, and at least it looks like I'm on the right path now. 15, 25, 56, 112...the miles don't go on forever. I just have to slow down a little bit and watch for what's up ahead. Low branches go for the throat, and hitting them at a fast pace is usually a race ender to say the least.

Relax, I'll tell myself, covering this kind of ground is always a pain in the ass.

I hate the feeling of other people's bubbles.

Race Day: To give up the day-to-day luxuries of the masses for the luxury of a day the masses will never have.

I will let it roll in and rain down, and I will ride through it.

Shake out the little rocks before they cause big problems in the long run.

Bring me hail and angry skies, ominous clouds for miles and miles.

Wrap the gale around my eyes and let all of the devils loose for a while.
Let them run and stomp my fires, let them come and lock my tires for in these falls I have learned something of pain.

I have learned to absorb it and to get up again.

Physical pain is finite.

Physical ability can be carved, mental toughness can be forged, but passion must be born. It takes flesh and blood and heart and guts. And that's why you have to bleed to be the best.

Get up.
It sucks.
Then it doesn't.
Go train.
It sucks.
Then it doesn't.
Always.
In that order.

Spring Cleaning Core Beliefs

Crossroads come along now and then... they're proof that I'm getting somewhere.

If I am to fall, let me fall, for I would not surrender. If I am to bleed, let me bleed, for I would not die unscathed.

Given this, at the very least I can say, as I lie there under the weight of having lost, that I believed this much in myself.

And at the most, I will be remembered a warrior.

Potential is amazing. Determination is liberating. So the way I see it, there's not much out there that need be terribly intimidating...

It takes far more effort to compose a rationale for not doing than it does to actually do.

By the time you've sorted all of the reasons to stay in bed, invented just the right excuse that facilitates the injection of your perfectly prescribed justification, you'd be halfway out the door. Ironically, the easiest way around is through.

Take it out of the 53. Don't make things harder than they need to be.

They say the hardest part of anything hard is starting, and looking back on my life, I'd have to agree. More importantly however, it seems the longer we put off starting, the harder whatever it is we'd like to accomplish seems to become, and I wonder if this were more apparent - if this were the default adage - we'd wait so long to begin chasing down what it is we'd "if only" have.

Clearly had I known this, I'd have undoubtedly just begun.

We are the potential of our strengths and limitations of our weaknesses, and the first step in navigating both is to start embracing them - in their entirety - as our own. I think only then can we ever hope to mold them into what we'd have them be, and ideally, maybe even realize they're already what we've been trying to embody all along.

The less I think and the more I accept, the farther I'll go and the happier I'll be. I will succeed organically, because this is what's in me.

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~ Epictetus

"We will either find a way or make one."
~ Hannibal, 247 - 183 BC Carthaginian general

"We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable."
~ Emperor Hirohito

"Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight."
~ Lance Armstrong

"The fear of suffering is often worse than the suffering itself."
~ Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist

"...it's only pain and it's only suffering. It's not going to kill you. And if it's not going to kill you, what's the big deal?"
~ Chris Kostman, AdventureCORPS

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough -
Without ever having felt sorry for itself."
~ D.H. Lawrence

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
~ Emiliano Zapata

"The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."
~ Rudyard Kipling

"Good is the enemy of great."
~ Volataire

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
~ T. Roosevelt, The man in the Arena

"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."
~Steve Prefontaine

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
~ Juma Ikangaa

"What we have is based upon moment-to-moment choices of what we do. In each of those moments, we choose.

We either take a risk and move toward what we want, or we play it safe and choose comfort. Most of the people, most of the time, choose comfort.

In the end, people either have excuses or experiences; reasons or results; buts or brilliance.

They either have what they wanted or they have a detailed list of all the rational reasons why not."
~ Anonymous

"As a man sows he shall reap, and I know that talk is cheap. So the hotter the battle is, the sweeter the victory."
~ Bob Marley

"You will be what you will to be; let failure find its false content in that poor word 'environment,' but spirit scorns it, and is free,

It masters time, it conquers space, it cows that boastful trickster Chance, and bids the tyrant Circumstance uncrown and fill a servant's place.

The human Will, that force unseen, the offspring of a deathless Soul, can hew the way to any goal, though walls of granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay, but wait as one who understands; when spirit rises and commands, the gods are ready to obey.

The river seeking for the sea confronts the dam and precipice, yet knows it cannot fail or miss; you will be what you will to be!"
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
~ Mark Twain

"I know I can hit, and I know I can get hit. What else is there?"
~ Jimmy Smith (MMA fighter)

"We ain't making no gaddamn cornflakes here."
~ Colonel Charlie Beckwith (founder of Delta Force)

"Second star on the right and straight on 'till morning."
~ Peter Pan pointing the way to Neverland

"I bring my own weather with me."
~ Faris Al Sultan, 2005 Ironman World Champion

"You are what you love, not what loves you."
~ "Donald Kaufman" - Adaptation

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
~ Muhammad Ali

"For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
~ Hamlet

"When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you.

After being severely wounded two weeks before my 19th birthday, I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it, then I could do it too, and the best thing was not to worry about it."
~ Ernest Hemingway

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
~ George Shultz

Friday, January 20, 2006

Get Your Geek On! IS LIVE!!!

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