It's 5:15. In the morning. Dang. This is probably the earliest post I've ever done at BIT. I am not a morning person. So why am I up? There's only one reason: to get better Ever since I quit LifeTime Fitness and joined my local community club (The Monon Center), I've had to adjust some of my workout habits. The Monon Center is better in almost every way possible: it's closer, it's cleaner, it's cheaper and it's less crowded, but the one thing ...
Archives for June 2010
Mudathlon
Updated - 5/29 Official results have been posted. Also you can check out the official mudathlon flickr set here and see this gem of a photo of my crossing the finish line. At the beginning of July I said I wanted to do a race this month. I didn't care what type of race it was (5k, 10k, or tri), I just wanted to do something competitive and hopefully one of them crossed off my list. Well, as it turns out, this past weekend I did do a race that wasn't even ...
Vibrams Five Fingers Review Part 2
This is the 2nd of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the first part of the review here. *** In my last review, I touched on a bunch of the things I really like about my VFFs. In this second part of the review, I'm touching on some of the things I wasn't so happy with. Once again, for those of you wanting to skip around, here are some of the highlights of the video: [-0:17] - ...
Surrounding Yourself
If you're going to get good at anything you have to surround yourself with people who are better than you, people who believe in you and people who challenge you. The more you do that. The faster you do that. The faster you improve. *** If you surround yourself with people who have no goals lack motivation show no discipline and have no higher arcing purpose for what they're doing, Chances are, you'll end up wandering without ...
Durham Cares RAAM Videos
[Update June 25th] Jesse gives a sweet case study on how he shot the Race Across America over on his blog & portfolio site: JesseOxford.com. He was also featured over on Planet 5D, a site dedicated to shooting on the Canon 5D. They did it! Team Durham cares rode into the docks in Annapolis yesterday morning about 6:30am. Their final time: 6 Days, 13 Hours and 14 minutes. In under a week they did two amazing [dare I say impossible] things: Biked ...
Spontaneous Roadtripping
Every once in a while I'll do something completely random at last minute notice. Three years ago I booked a ticket to Paris for 5 days, 24 hours before we left. Last summer I went to Jamaica for a month on 2 weeks notice. This past March on 24 hours notice, I went to Maui for Perry Marshall's exclusive internet marketing seminar. I LOVE these trips and for some strange reason, they keep happening... Last night I got a call from my good friend Jesse ...
Vibrams Five Fingers Review Part 1
This is 1st part of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the second part of the review here. *** photo credit: Richard Monteverde A few weeks back I took a plunge and got a pair of Vibrams Five Finger running shoes. After using them for a few weeks, I finally feel like I've run enough in them to give a review of my experiences with them so I decided I might as well make it a video ...
A Different Kind Of Impossible Thing
Suleman is a 31 year old, tie salesman from Nigeria. 9 months ago, Suleman asked for a $650 loan to grow his business and build a better life for himself and his family. 9 complete strangers decided to loan Suleman the full amount. I put in $25. That was 9 months ago. Yesterday he paid the final installment on his loan! I was pumped. I imagine Suleman was too. One of my goals on The Impossible List is to help fund 100 entrepreneurs build better lives ...
Considerable Ass Power Required
I was talking with one of my good friends Roshanda about our respective blogs the other day. While Roe writes about a completely different subject matter [fair trade, handmade crafts and clothing] than I do, we were empathizing over the general difficulty of the whole blogging process. I told her that no matter how much I write, I always feel like I'm blogging my ass off and I'm still always behind. She sort of felt the same way and responded with ...
[BIT] Update: May 2010
The life left unexamined is not worth living. - Socrates Every month I try to take a look back at what's going on with the blog, my training regime, and my life in general. I think reflection is an important part of anything you do. In my day job, we look at Return on Investment for our clients so we can see what worked and what didn't and then adjust accordingly. IIf you don't know what path to take to get where you are, how will you know whether to keep ...
