Am I completely off base, or does this back-of-the-napkin calculation make any sense? There are about 7,000,000 cars in Ontario. Ontario’s peak capacity is maybe about 25,000 megawatts. Our night draw is about 15,000 megawatts (same source). This makes a difference of 10,000 megawatts. A Nissan Leaf has a 24 kilowatt per hour battery. At … Continued
I’m actually surprised that it worked way better than I expected. Here’s a chart of the whole session last night. It actually gives a lot of useful data. If you’re not familiar with this program and what everything in that chart means, the main metric that’s tracked here is that red squiggly line, which is … Continued
It may be a little premature to do up a how-to before I’ve even fully tested to see if it works, but I’m a little excited to try this out. I don’t feel like spending another $200 for another watch so I can track heart rate underwater, especially when I don’t know if I’m going … Continued
Since the end of last year when I was told I have a touch of tibialis posterior syndrome (basically a glorified form of tendinitis involving the tendon connecting the back of your shin to the bottom of your foot), I’ve been completely off running, and only able to handle very small amounts of cycling at … Continued
I haven’t had a good “in review” post in a while. When my focus was on blogging and losing weight I did a review post every five pounds (so essentially every month). I’ve been meaning to do a full year review for a few years now, but when the year ends in a whimper there’s … Continued
Patron: So what do you think of your man Obama? Bartender: Pffft. I didn’t vote for him. He ain’t doin’ nothin for us. He’s not even from here. Did you hear where he’s from? Like Alaska or Hawaii or… I don’t even think he’s American. He’s from some other country. He doesn’t know anything. Patron: … Continued
The purpose of last Sunday’s race was to try and gauge whether I should register for the Muskoka half-ironman in September or not. Looks like I’m not going to be registering for this year. I could definitely finish it, but based on the Muskoka long course race on Sunday I don’t think I’d be able … Continued
Good news. I didn’t drown, and had a good T1 transition! Bad news? It’s all in the race report. My very detailed race report The track on Garmin Connect (for the ride and run) The full race rankings Crazy number coincidence – 2:22:30 is exactly 95 moments (the medieval unit of time). So I guess technically I … Continued
I was completely unprepared for this. I wanted to do an open water swim and a quick training run so I just impulsively entered. After Saturday’s solo swim I figured it would be safer to have kayaks nearby anyway. I really like this race distance. It seemed like a far-fetched idea three weeks ago, but … Continued