Back in the Saddle

Well, it's time to get serious again. My triathlon race goals for next year are the Mooseman 1/4 iron in June, the Lobsterman Olympic distance in Aug/Sept and a whole bunch of sprints in between.

With those goals in mind, I started my offseason training plan. I'm going to be weight training M-W-F, and trying to fit in 1 bike, 1 swim and 2 running sessions around that. In February, I will have to ramp up the swimming, biking and running, but we'll deal with that when it gets here.

Yesterday was my first day of weight training in 6 months... and yes, I'm sore. I feel better than I thought though, it's nice to be in a little better shape than expected. I'm feeling a bit ambitious, and may try to enter my workouts here... we'll see.

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Spin Cycle

It happens to all of us. Intellectually we know that the mad rush to release code that's late will put us in the spin cycle of fix/release/new bug/fix/release/new bug!

Yes, another project is a bit late and I have a lot of work to do. So we rush in fixes and cause more problems. We will learn from this mistake... I doubt it.


On another note, I'm reading Joel Spolsky's latest work "Joel on Software and lots of other things" (slightly paraphrased there ;) ) It's very good, and I highly recommend it. He has a lot of good ideas which would undoubtedly fix some of the problems I've described above. I have made one vow though, if I fix anything in the next few months, it will be setting up daily builds to ensure bug counts and integration issues remain at the minimum.

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Humble beginnings

Work is hectic. Work is fun. Must see my family.

Ramblings from a computer geek with triathlon ambitions. It might be interesting, it might not... we'll just have to wait and see.

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