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Week in Review – May 19h, 2024

2) Denmark is throwing sharks on bike paths: No really, real actual sharks.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Oh, and want more shark stuff? Here’s the time I swam with Great White sharks for real.

Week in Review–June 2nd, 2013

8) What it’s like to film oceanic white-tip sharks: The idea behind the ‘Week in Review’ posts was originally about random things I found interesting – this being one of them.

Week in Review–July 9th, 2017

5) Orca whales visit swimmers: I’m reasonably certain I’d crap myself more if these showed up mid-swim than sharks.

Travel & Trip Reports

Day 3: Great White Sharks – woot!… Day 4: Sea Lions and Great White Sharks – double woot!

Zwift’s CEO Discusses Smart Bike Hardware Plans, IPO, Rowing, Clubs, and More

Keep in mind that while Zwift had their massive investment round recently, the waters of the at home fitness tech world are attracting some pretty substantial sharks these days – interested in riding the wave of fitness popularity into the future.

India Part II: Crouching Tiger

This has been true of my nearly 30 hour boat trip to Guadalupe Island for Great White Sharks, as well as previous African adventures.

Oreka O2 Cycling Treadmill In-Depth Review

While what Tacx has designed with their crazy optical sensor sharks with lasers system is enviable, I suspect even just a simple connection to a cadence sensor would resolve the issues here.

Week in Review–December 26th, 2010

So, let’s just recap the posts ya may have missed – cause it was a surprisingly jam-packed week! Saturday: Week in Review – December 18th, 2010 Sunday: Back in the Ice Monday: Zeo – An in Depth Product Review Tuesday: Swimming with sharks! Wednesday: Feelin’ lucky? Water immersion tests with Garmin Edge and CycleOps Joule Computers Thursday: On LA Talk Radio Show Later this Morning Friday: Have a Merry Christmas! Stuff that I found interesting around the interwebs: As always, here’s a sampler platter of some of the interesting articles and posts I found around the Internet this week.

Egypt Day 1: Perfecting telling people off

Hammerhead sharks here we come.

Checking out the EZ-Trainer iPad ANT+ App

The metrics are overlaid on any content you like – so it need not be pretty cycling stuff, but rather…

Cycling around South Africa

Just a few miles away directly out from them is the infamous Seal Island…and a touch bit further Dyer Island – home to one of the greatest congregation of Great White Sharks around (and the majority of Discovery Channel Shark Week Shows).

Week in Review–October 19th, 2015

2) Great white sharks takes out seal next to Alcatraz: Well then…who’s ready for the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon (glad I already checked that one off the list…)? I prefer to keep my great white shark and triathlon experiences separate, thank you very much.

Garmin Forerunner 910XT In Depth Review

In fact, two years ago I did just that with a FR310XT, where I had it recording for over a day, during a long journey on a boat to a remote island where Great White Sharks were (trip report here).

A Week On A Small Australian Tropical Island

Packed and ready to roll…and run…and that swim thing.

As always with the swim, I have a general primary goal of not drowning or being bitten by sharks.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Mountains, valleys, aqua bays down below, beaches, lions, great white sharks.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

These things might as well have been Great White Sharks to her.

Spending time with the team behind the Basis watch

Longhorn 70.3 Spectator Report

Granted, it’s hard to really have a totally complex lake swim given the lack of currents, tides, waves or great white sharks.

Week in Review–April 27th, 2014

5) Woman breaks swimming world record (including the men's record): Pretty cool video showing the record attempt from the island of Lanai to Maui and back….including a small visit from sharks.

Week in Review–March 30th, 2014

9) Marine Biologist (that likes sharks) that wants an incredible job? Remember when I did the shark diving trip? Well, this is like that, except all expense paid to live in Fiji for a year+.

Friday Photo of the Day (or trip, as it may be)

And I’ve got tons more goodness from the trip here shortly (like sharks!), but this post makes for nice easy Friday morning reading.

A weekend enjoying a Spanish island

We didn’t notice until on our way out, but apparently hammer-head sharks visit the area.

Garmin FR60 Review – In Depth

I used to use my simple $20 sports watch for this purpose…until I killed it while diving with Great White Sharks.