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The Building Blocks of Google Glass’ Mirror API: Cards, Menu Options, Share Entities and Subscriptions

April 11, 2013 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

For those interested in working the Google Glass’ Mirror API, here’s a summary of the key points from Timothy Jordan’s overview SXSW presentation of the Mirror API. In a nutshell, the Mirror API looks like many other REST APIs. Your app and Google Glass send information to each other via a REST architecture, using OAuth2.0 for authentication, JSON to encapsulate data, and standard POST, GET and PUT methods for sending, listing and updating information.

The Glass user experience is based on four central building blocks:

Cards: the basic UI unit where information and media can be displayed
Menu Options: actions the user can take with a card (like replying or sharing)
Share Entities: people or applications with which information with a card can be shared
Subscriptions: events that your app can asked to be notified about

Screens and notes from Timothy’s presentation are below.

Glass is based on your “Timeline” and “Cards” that live in that timeline.

The user who is wearing Glass initiates a session with Glass by looking up. You can then issue voice commands or swipe your eyeglass earpiece in various directions to interact with the UI.

Cards can be stacked into “Bundles” which the user can dive into to retrieve more cards relating to the first (cover) card.

Your app can create a card using a POST.

Cards can contain media.

Cards can contain HTML.

There are two ways to create a bundle. The first is to create multiple HTML pages for a single card, sort of like pagination.

The second way to create a bundle is by tying multiple cards together with a bundleId.

You can modify the content within a card using a PUT.

You can list a single card, or the entire timeline with a GET.

Within a card, you can also define Menu Options tied to functions, enabling the Glass user to interact with cards.

Here’s an example of adding a standard READ_ALOUD menu option to a card.

Here’s how to add a custom menu option called “love.”

You can define Share Entities for your cards which give the user options for sharing content with friends on Google+ or through your app.

Here’s an example of creating a Share Entity for example.com.

Your app can subscribe to a user’s timeline via Subscriptions.

Your app can subscribe to a user by sending credentials to Google.

Once subscribed, your app can be notified, for example, if a user selects a menu option on a card from your app, or if a share entity is called.

Here’s an example of a ping that Glass sends to example.com via a Subscription event tied to the user’s timeline.

Finally, here are some best practices for developers for Glass, these are logical and pretty self-explanatory.

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Flip-Flopping in Politics: Not Necessarily a Bad Word?

November 8, 2012 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

The Christian Science Monitor put out an insightful article today arguing that the fact that Mitt Romney flip-flopped on numerous positions had little effect on the election’s outcome. That begs the question: why is flip-flopping typically considered fatal in politics? John Kerry flip-flopped on the Iraq War issue in 2004 and his image as a flip-flopper is widely considered to be the reason he lost the election. This contrast perhaps points to the fact that flip-flopping in and of itself is not what puts voters off, but that voters simply overlay the act of changing positions onto the overall narrative presented by the candidate. In John Kerry’s case, his personality portrayed s lack of conviction on many levels, and to many his qualifications as a war hero was his primary asset, burnishing his qualifications to be commander in chief. Therefore, attacks on this part of his story, and related flip-flops, undermine this somewhat tenuous narrative.

In Mitt Romney’s case, I believe that most voters could see the underlying truth that he was not truly a “severe conservative” but had been forced to portray himself as such to get through the Republican primaries. His narrative is one of a moderate Republican who has a history of doing what it takes, including shifting positions on issues, in order to win an election. Whether you find that acceptable or not, that was who voters knew Mitt Romney to be and his flip-flopping or reverting back to his more moderate positions int he midst of the campaign did little to change voters’ perceptions of him. In fact, to some, his willingness (and audacity) to switch positions so obviously probably portrayed a nerve and willingness to do what it takes to win – which absolutely can be seen as a positive trait.

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How Parents Can Avoid Becoming “Praise ATMs”

August 27, 2012 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

My wife sent me this article by Alfie Kohn which was published in 2001 in Parenting Magazine entitled Five Reasons to Stop Saying “Good Job.” The title overstates the article’s main point, which is that many parents adopt a habit of repeating “good job” when their kids do praiseworthy things, often without thinking or paying any attention to what their kids are actually doing. This is not a bad thing to do in and of itself, however, if this behavior replaces active engagement and meaningful conversation about what the kid is doing it can create a pattern in which the kid seeks out what will elicit the praise, stealing focus away from why certain behaviors are praiseworthy to begin with. I can see his point – I do its easy for parents to fall into the trap of becoming “praise ATMs” – dolling out “good jobs” while watching the TV or flipping through our email.

The article details the five potentially harmful effects of overusing the words “good job” with our kids – the one I found most interesting is where it points out that our kids constantly look to us for judgment (“is what I’m doing good or bad?”) and whenever we “judge” them with a thoughtless “good job” we’re giving them an easy psychological reward, reinforcing the interaction which elicited the reward rather than reinforcing anything directly related to the activity at hand.

Kohn suggests three possible alternatives to saying “goob job” when we see praiseworthy behavior from our kids:

Say nothing (its ok not to say anything sometimes)
Say what you saw (“You put your shoes on yourself.”)
Ask a question (“What was the hardest part of that picture to draw?”)

I think these are great suggestions. My takeaway point to remember from these suggestions is to replace an automatic positive response with any type of engagement in the behavior or activity at hand. While its often easy to glaze over when kids are blasting us with questions, the more often we can break out of ATM mode and bestow upon our kids a real and meaningful interaction, we’re doing a better job as parents.

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Unroll.me – Email Unsubscription Service Review

June 16, 2012 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

Just came across one of those tools that you wish existed ten years ago. Unroll.me gives you a quick birds-eye view of each provider which sends you newsletters and email alerts, and lets you one-click unsubscribe to them from one page.

I just went through my subscriptions and unsubscribed to around 30 providers in just a few minutes. Much easier than the once-quarterly clean up we do in which we manually hunt for the little “unsubscribe” link on all those emails in our inbox. Unroll.me only supports Gmail currently – they are working on Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail and others.

UPDATE: After using Unroll.me for a few weeks now, I decided to delete my account. The way the service works is a bit intrusive and hard to understand. My first complaint is that Unroll.me sends you a daily email summarizing the emails they caught for you. The net result is that you still get an annoying daily email update in your inbox, and you have to click theirs to open it to see the headlines, and THEN you need to click over to their site to actually see the body of the email. This adds steps and clicks to what used to be a simple scan of your inbox. They do not offer a way to unsubscribe from THEIR email update. Furthermore, the service seems to add new emails to their “catch” list each day, for example, they recently added my Amazon purchase confirmations to their list, so my Amazon receipts were no longer available in my inbox, I had to go find them in Unroll.me. This is not the “help” I’m looking for.

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Vineman Full Distance Ironman Race Report

September 14, 2011 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

In August of this year, I did my first Ironman distance race, completing the 146.2-mile course in beautiful Guernesville, CA for the Vineman Full distance triathlon. Soreness and fear of stairs ensued for a week or two post-race, but that was more than offset by the great feeling of accomplishing a big, challenging goal. I’ve been meaning to sit down and do a race + training debrief and summary, and I’m finally getting to it – so here’s a summary of my experience training for and competing in a full Ironman.

The 4-month Ironman training program

I started training a bit late, approximately 4 months prior to the race. I have done triathlons before, including a half-Ironman at Big Kahuna in Santa Cruz, but doing a full distance was something of an unknown for me. My swimming was already good, I’d been swimming good distances regularly (usual routine is between 1,500 and 2,000 meters 3 to 4 times per week), but I hadn’t done much running or riding.

Typically riding is my strength and running is my weakest segment, with swimming in between. However, at this point both my running and riding were at a pretty bad state since I had barely done any of each over the winter. It was now mid-April, with the race at the end of August – so I had my work but out for me. I decided to train on a condensed schedule to rapidly improve my cycling and running, while doing enough swimming to retain my technique and fitness.

Swim training

Last year I changed my swim stroke to utilize what’s called Total Immersion – despite the gimmicky-sounding name, its a great technique for beginner swimmers to learn a more efficient freestyle swim stroke. I’ve never had much formal training for swimming, so my freestyle stroke was pretty, well, bad. TI (for short) is simply a technique for teaching the freestyle stroke which helps a novice swimmer focus on the right mechanics to achieve a more efficient stroke. I highly recommend it for any triathlete who is not already an accomplished swimmer – it really makes swimming easier, faster, and more fun. I did lessons with Shinji Takeuichi, who I recommend highly as a top TI coach.

My swim training schedule was just one swim per week, starting at 2,000 meters per workout, working up to 2,500 meter workouts in the pool and between 1 to 2 mile open water swims. Pool workouts consist either of 400 meter repeats or a 200-300-400-500-400-300-200 pyramid workout with some warmups / kicks mixed in.

Ride training

Riding is my strongest event, however this year I was starting from a point of low fitness, as I had not ridden much at all over the winter. In my training the previous summer I had done a fair amount of riding, but I sprained my ankle late in the training season which put me out of commission for a couple months.

For Vineman 2011, I decided to (finally) upgrade my bike from my old road bike to a full tri bike. I went to a few shops, and found that Pacific Bikes here in SF SOMA had the best selection of tri bikes. The guys there are really helpful, and so long as you go in when its not too busy you can get a lot of custom attention for test rides and custom fitting. I rode a few Cervelos, Scotts and Orbeas, and settled on a 2010 Orbea Ordu GLT that they had on sale. It just felt comfortable – amazing how one bike can suddenly feel “right” when you get on it compared to many others. I managed to haggle in a pair of Reynolds Assault carbon rims at 30% off marked price in exchange for the stock rims – so the bike looked (and rode) pretty sweet coming out of the shop.

Ride training over the summer averaged at 2 rides per week – one long weekend ride and one shorter weekday ride. I rode a lot with my buddies Chung and John, both of whom also did Vineman, and overall had a great season training up in Marin as well as down in the Canada Road / Woodside area. Average mileage started at approximately 50 miles per week at season start, and worked its way up to 80 to 110 miles per week at the end of the season. I didn’t manage to squeeze in any century rides – I caught a nasty flu mid-season which threw my schedule off – but I made it up with a peak ride consisting of a 2x repeat of the La Honda => Tunitas Creek => King’s Mountain loop, a gnarly 39 mile loop repeated to get to 78 miles and approximately 7,800 feet of climbing. They should give that double loop a name, because it definitely left an impression on me (not to mention a notable limp the next day).

Run training

Running is my weakest event. Honestly, I hate running, but unfortunately, you can’t do a triathlon without doing it. The thought of running a marathon on its own made me a little sick, let alone doing it after 2.4 miles of swimming and 112 miles of biking. My run training was 1 or 2 runs per week – I tried to do one long run on the weekend (starting at about 8 miles, working up to 17 miles), along with one shorter run or a track workout during the week (didn’t always get to this). Most of my running was done on the Chrissy Field to Baker Beach to Land’s End route, which is mostly trail running. Hated most of this, but got through it, and my running improved significantly over the summer – by summer’s end, a 10 mile run didn’t seem very long, so long as I had 2 hours or so to run it

Race day @ Vineman

Getting mentally ready for my first Ironman distance was quite different from other races I’ve experienced. There’s something about knowing you’ll be going for 14 hours or so, and pushing your limits past where you’ve ever been before that makes you a little nervous. Luckily, my wife Liz and baby accompanied me to the race – it felt great to have them there with me, and really helped me relax and focus. We checked in early the previous day up in beautiful Sonoma – had a good pasta dinner in downtown San Rafael, came back to the hotel and got all my equipment ready, then hit the sack early.

Vineman swim

We arrived pretty early for the swim, which for me started at 6:40am – we got there around 5:45, but after parking and getting past the crowds and into my wetsuit, I had just a minute to spare for the swim start. The Vineman swim is in the American River – and is a relatively pleasant swim. Water temperature was around 70 degrees, and the river has little current. In some places the river is so shallow your hands scrape the bottom on each stroke, which is a little annoying. The swim was a solid leg for me, I was relaxed and swam a 1 hour 20 minute time for 2.4 miles – not fast but a good time and I felt good going into transition.

Vineman ride

The ride was a great leg for me – I felt a big difference riding the tri bike, and was able to stay relaxed for most of the ride. I rode a 6 hour and 11 minute 112 mile distance, averaging 18 mph. My goal was to beat 7 hours for the ride, and I think I expended a bit more on the ride than was ideal, but it was hard to calibrate the right speed. The Vineman bike course is fairly easy with few major hills and lots of easy rollers. The weather was kind to us and stayed cool for most of the day – things didn’t get hot until the early afternoon. Riding the tri bike made it much easier and more comfortable to stay in the aero position for long periods, and while it was pretty painful after mile 80 or so, it was markedly easier to stay at speed throughout the ride.

Nutritionally, I kept a lot going down, during the 112 mile ride I ate the equivalent of 2 bananas and 4 bars, and finished 6 large bottles of fluids (I was doing Hammer Perpetuem, which I was very happy with, made a noticeable difference in maintaining a high effort level over other drinks I’ve tried such as Gu2O, Accelerade and Cytomax.) My ride fitness was good and my legs felt good throughout the ride, my weak point were my gluts which were really tired at the end of the ride.

Vineman run

Hopping off the bike, I felt good to start the run. So good, in fact, that I forgot everything I was supposed to do in transition. I had a IT band strap that I had planned to put on to help with a sore knee during my run, plus I had planned to transition my sodium pills from my saddle pack to my run pocket. Both of these steps went out the door as I just laced up my shoes, donned my visor, and took off running. It wasn’t until I was about 200 meters into the run that I realized I had forgotten everything – the salt especially was a biggie, I knew I was already feeling some cramping and my muscles were not firing as efficiently as they should even at the start of the run. It was going to be (an even longer) run.

The Vineman run course is, well, cruel. Its 3 laps of an approximately 9 mile out-and-back course. There are two major hills on the course, meaning you climb 6 hills during this marathon. The weather was in the low 80s, not super hot, but hot enough to notice. The first lap was extremely difficult, partly because I had just gotten done with a 112 mile ride at high effort, and partly because mentally I knew I was just on the first of three of these bad boys.

For an Ironman distance, it really does come down to the run. This is where it all comes down, everything that is going to break down breaks down here, and all the pain happens somewhere during these 26.2 miles. For me, the lack of salt was the biggest pain point – I tried to put down a lot of pretzels, which was the saltiest food they provided at each refueling stop, along with lots of Gatorade – but at this point in a workout you really need a lot of salt. I felt it mostly in the lack of ability to get my legs to “wake up” and get active. The other major issue was blistering – during the swim segment, I had walked on the river bed a bit in some shallow sections and at the end of the swim – and that caused some minor blisters to start out on the bottoms of my toes. By the 10th mile or so into the run, 4 of my toes had opened up pretty badly, and it was pretty tough to run on them. I tried to keep my mind off them, and varied my gait to keep the pressure on one side of my feet or the other.

At the end, I ran a pretty dismal 6 hour and 11 minute marathon, which is a 14 minute mile average. I walked a lot on the course, and was never able to run at a good pace – so this time is about what I expected.

Ironman complete!

Overall, I completed my first Ironman distance race in 13 hours and 57 minutes – better than my goal of 14 hours, but definitely with lots of room to improve. Given the time commitment required to do this distance race, I’m not sure when my next one will be – but I’m definitely in a much better position now to prepare and compete more efficiently the next time around.

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Martinis & patents

May 10, 2011 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

Although I’m not a big fan of a whole defensive patent game, I understand its a necessary part of business, and after going through several patent applications, I can appreciate the amount of work and analysis that goes into getting a patent submitted and approved. During my time in the Advanced Products Group at Yahoo! (later Brickhouse) I spent most of my time launching new products, and thus had the opportunity to file more than my fair share of patents – of which two have been approved so far (woohoo!)

These two patents were both created during our creation of Yahoo!’s first mobile social networking product, a service called Mix’d which allowed you to plan adhoc group events using SMS text messaging and MMS media messaging (this was back in 2006 – pre-iPhone – my how far we’ve come!). It had some novel features for auto-building a contact list based on the events or groups in which you participate, and allowing temporary groups which were created for a given event to persist across multiple events. One really cool part of Mix’d was that it seamlessly connected a mobile experience (text messaging and MMS media transfers) back to a social web experience so that you had a multimedia log of a given event – which sounds pedestrian today but was rather novel way back in ’06. Unfortunately the service did not survive the internal gauntlet at Yahoo!, so what we have surviving are some patents (hey, you gotta take what you can get!). The one which have been approved so far in the USPTO are “Employing matching of event characteristics to suggest another characteristic of an event” and “Contextual mobile local search based on social network vitality information.” My favorite part is in that first filing, we used “going out to drink” in most of our use case examples, so the filing language is:

824. Moreover, event A’s name of “Drinking” may match event names 840, 843, and 844: “Drinks” based on string matching or other information retrieval techniques. For example, the string “Drinking” may be canonicalized, capitalized, stemmed, stop word removed, or the like, before matching. “Drinking” may be stemmed to “Drink” and matched with “Drinks” based on a partial string match.

Time to go have a drink!

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Total immersion (TI) swimming for triathlons

May 6, 2011 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

I recently came across Total Immersion swimming and started training with Shinji Takeuchi, the head coach for TI in Japan (he also teaches in the Bay Area). My background in swimming is that I was a recreational swimmer who thought I knew how to swim (still mostly true). I mostly did lots of laps to train up for triathlons, and became an “expert” once I learned how to flip turn without veering into the neighboring lane.

Kidding aside, my entire approach to swimming has changed due to TI (I just wish it didn’t have such a gimmicky-sounding name). In my experience, in TI they beak down the swim stroke in reverse. For example, instead of trying to keep your head up, you are trying to keep your head down with TI. Instead of focusing on kicking to gain speed, you hardly kick at all. Instead of using a sweeping motion with your arm to thrust yourself forward, you don’t push your arm at all, you instead focus on the placement and motion of your forward (spearing) hand. Its all backwards – and for the first few times you try it, you may make lifeguards nervous because it sort of feels like you’re drowning.

Once you get the core parts of it down though, it starts to feel, as Borat would say, *very nice* – it feels smooth and not like you’re wrestling something to death while gasping for air after 150 meters. Its actually very relaxing to traverse the pool, and you can swim a lot without getting tired. I’ve gone down from 22 strokes to 14 strokes to get across a 25 meter length pool (on a good day).

I have yet to try TI in open water, but I can tell its going to help my swim, and my entire race, a lot. Less effort, faster swimming – can’t complain. I recommend checking out TI for any triathlete. Shinji is also an awesome coach for those in the Bay Area (he trains in Fremont).

Here’s his video so you can see what a TI stroke (is supposed to) look like:

Good thread on swim coaches in SF and more triathlon threads.

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Ironman training this year

April 19, 2011 By michael quoc Leave a Comment

Here, now its official (and harder for me to back out!): I’m signed up and training for a full Ironman race this year. Its an odd time I know to be undertaking such an adventure, given that I’m a new dad and starting a new business venture, but they always say that what doesn’t kill you can almost kill you, even if you survive. Really though its my wife Liz who is making this possible – she has been extremely supportive and I owe to her my ability to prepare for this race (she has been doing the endurance event called taking care of a newborn baby for months now!). The race I’m doing is Vineman on July 30, 2011 up in Sonoma County. I did the Full Aquabike version of this race to see how the distances felt (which is 2.4 miles of swimming followed by 112 miles of biking), I felt pretty exhausted, but survived – so now all we gotta do is tack on a marathon at the end and we’re done.

OK – I also gotta show off my new ride – I finally ditched my K-Mart special bike to get a real triathlon machine, check it out:

Pretty sweet huh? Look fast, be fast (I heard this). Well, it gives me extra motivation now to actually ride fast and not get passed by masses from subsequent waves (but we know this will happen anyways). OK enough on this – I know a lot of people will be racing this event this year, so I look forward to seeing many of you there. Looking forward to a great summer of training and an awesome race day!

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My Big Kahuna race report

September 9, 2008 By michael quoc 4 Comments

So yesterday I completed my first endurance event (which didn’t involve beer or Nintendo Wii) at the Big Kahuna Half-Ironman Triathlon. The race consisted of swimming for 1.2 miles, getting on your bike and riding 56 miles, then getting off your bike and running a half marathon (13.1 miles). It’s not usually how I’d envision spending a Sunday morning, to say the least.

First off, I have to give a big shout out to Team in Training – I joined the SF / Marin chapter of this great organization that provides triathlon training, education, and support, while raising money for leukemia and lymphoma research. I’ve discovered that Team in Training has raised in the neighborhood of $800 million for cancer research since its founding in 1998. After spending the summer training with the people who are involved, I can certainly see why this organization has been so successful – it’s an amazing group of people – some of the most supportive, team-spirited, and big-hearted I’ve met! I also need to thank Chung-man for getting me into the whole triathlon thing in the first place and introducing me to Team in Training.

What’s up with the bright Red Mango suit?

Red Mango is a new chain of yogurt shops opening up all around the country. If you’ve tried Pink Berry, you gotta try Red Mango – it’s the original healthy organic frozen yogurt which has been very successful in Korea and is expanding here in the States. Yul Kwon, who many of you know as the winner of Survivor: Cook Islands, is a close friend of mine, and along with partners Mark Young and Richard Choo, are partnering with Red Mango to open up their Northern California stores. Yul generously offered to sponsor me for my triathlon in Red Mango’s name, so Red Mango will be a corporate sponsor of Team in Training in Spring 2009 in support of blood cancer research.

So on to the race – here are the highlights:

Day before the race

Willow Harrington, my Team in Training mentor, completely saved my ass the night before the race. At the hotel, I discovered that my custom Red Mango tri-suit did not come manufactured with pockets – a critical oversight given I had planned to carry 6 hours worth of energy gel in them. Willow, who has a magical ability to come through in the clutch, happened to have an extra Bento Box (bike carrying case) which was exactly what I needed to not die during the race. Thanks Willow!

At the starting line, before the swim

My parents somehow managed to find me at the starting line amidst the crowd of wet-suit clad competitors. We got a few photos and Mom gave a pep talk and offered some advice about “breathing deeply” and “staying relaxed” to all the nearby triathletes. It was quite embarrassing, but you gotta love moms! Then we then proceed to line up, the gun went off, and we jump into Pacific for a swim around the pier at the Boardwalk.

The swim

Uneventful. I’m not a fast swimmer, so I was getting passed left and right. But I felt relaxed, and was mostly concentrating on trying not to get kicked in the face too much.

Transition to the bike

It was a great feeling to come out of the water, run up the beach to a big crowd of people cheering. My Team in Training buddies (thanks Katie and Colleen!) had my shoes waiting at the beach so I could wear them for the short run to the transition area. Willow caught up to me in transition, despite starting her swim 10 minutes after me! She even managed to spray some sunscreen on me amidst her crazy transition routine, further testament to her dedication as a mentor!

The bike

There’s usually a lot of wind on this bike course, which heads up and down Highway 1 along the ocean. On race day, it was relatively calm, and the ride was smooth and uneventful. 56 miles is just a long time to sit in the saddle, and you find yourself talking to yourself sometimes. Wait, did I just say that out loud?

Transition to the run

Coming back into the transition area on the bike was definitely one of the highlights – hearing all the cowbells ringing (you can always use more) and people cheering as I passed by was a rush! My mini-cheering section of Jenni, Yeong-sae, and Christine (and Rockie) were all there to cheer me on and even brought signs printed with motivational messages.

The run

Running sucks for me. So the thought of doing a half marathon after all that other stuff was pretty horrific. I ran with a fellow Team in Training teammate Thomas for most of the run – it was really great to run together with a teammate. The only thing was that Thomas was cramping up the whole time but kept pushing through it – I just wished there was some way I could help him. I could only imagine the pain of running all those miles with a bad cramp.

The worst part about the run was the halfway turnaround point that never came. It was supposed to come at 6.55 miles, but I swear it felt like 7.5 miles! Everytime we came around a corner of the trail expecting to see the turnaround, we’d see people continuing to run off into the distance, no turnaround in sight.

It was a truly joyful experience to finally be able to see a big roller coaster on the Boardwalk on the way back. Almost there! At this point it was all about just trying to keep one foot going past the other.

The finish

The Big Kahuna course designers had the cruel sense of humour to end this long-ass race by having us run through the sand. Holy heavy feet. But it was so awesome to get to the finish to meet your cheering teammates, family members, and finally being able to plop youself down on the sand.

The post-party

Oops, I passed out before dinner.

In retrospect

I still think it’s somewhat crazy to subject one’s body to the type of abuse that comes with triathloning, but after being through it, I can really appreciate why people do it. The combination of exhilaration, hard work, comraderie, getting your ass in great shape, pain, friendships, and achievement make for a truly memorable and meaningful experience. In terms of when I’ll do the next one, ask me in a few days after I can walk again

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