This is a review of my first week with barefoot running shoes – the Five Fingers by Vibram. The video includes sites on barefoot running – including the Harvard studies – my observations with putting them on, running on treadmill, running on hard surface, and how the differed from traditional running shoes where I land on heel, to forefoot landing.

• Harvard University
  
  • Harvard Videos
    
• Nature Video with Harvard Professor
  
• Barefoot Runner
  
• Running Barefoot
  
• Sports Science
  
• Runners World
  
• Living Barefoot
  
• Vibram
  

We got off to a slow start, but finally decided to go with this work around the yard video with a natural busy bee – Jacalyn. Play video below or at YouTube if you have cellphone video player.

This was My Ride for the Biking to Work Week in Madison, Wisconsin. I primarily produced it for CrankmyChain and the weekly live casts that Dan Kaufman has been doing on Stickam.

I was a bit late, by about 7 hours, as the ride with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz was at 8:30am on a chilly morning, and I had to ride 10 miles to the start location – so I procrastinated. Okay, I slept it.

So I recreated the ride and recorded my own parallel ride. This is my ride from close the start – I took wrong turn, so I’m a block early – along the trail to the 5pm social, and then to home, with highlights along the return (including tunnels under busy streets).

I call this spoof on a spoof because it somewhat spoofs the contest concept – in friendly way -  where the objective is to do a spoof on one of three sample commercials. Mine combines girlfriend, party, and tragedy. I combined them all in to one purposely sober thought. Check out the video and vote – unfortunately you have to be 21, and register, but it’s register friendly.

Scene’s from 2008 North Mankato Triathlon. Nephew Aaron talked us into doing the race… his dad, and uncles. Had a great time passing and being passed.

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This is Aaron’s graduation race… My nephew talked us into doing this race (his dad and Bindl uncle’s), and then he took a 2,000 mile bike ride to Niagara Falls without a video camera. So I got this idea to try out the Google Maps for documenting a trip. Click on the lines and images above for notes and highlights. 2008 race results at OnLineRaceResults.com. See a better quality video in later post – the one embedded in map above is only YouTube regular quality.

Highlights of the Capitol View Triathlon for my friends and family that enjoy a good swim, bike, and a run. Finally back after three years recovering.

Battery tips from Chuck Dove at Action Battery in Somerset Wisconsin. Tips on charging and discharging lead acid batteries when used for electric bikes. Includes brief footage of the Apple River. Chuck shows a battery pack that could get up to 3,000 miles.

Testing the Cyclemotor on my bike. The one from first electric bike series where I couldn’t get the other kit on bike.