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5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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

Diving with the Apple Watch Ultra & Oceanic+ App: Everything You Need to Know

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Just like you can buy a cheap watch for $12 that tells you the time (inclusive of sharks).

Week in Review–June 2nd, 2013

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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

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

The Week in Review: September 11th, 2010

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If I had to pick my favorite, it’d be the Shark one…just cause me and sharks are best buds.

Oreka O2 Cycling Treadmill In-Depth Review

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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.

Trip Reports Static Page

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

Garmin Forerunner 910XT In Depth Review

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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).

My Totally Awesome New Shark Blimp

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For those that have read for a while, you know I love sharks – especially great whites.

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

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

Travel & Trip Reports

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

A weekend enjoying a Spanish island

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

Strava Launches Activity Video Flyover Feature: Hands-on

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And sharks will eat them anyway, thus they’ll never upload that activity to Strava.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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I signed up to be dragged around over great white sharks by a gigantic kite on a small board.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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Despite the concerns of great white sharks lurking just beyond the break, this particular stretch of beach is nice and shallow – making it such that I could easily walk almost the entire route I swam, save a short spot where they’ve towed a floating platform for kids to jump off.

Hello Australia! I’m crashing your country through March!

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It’s swim/bike/run heaven! The beach is only a block away, allowing for awesome openwater swims (save the sharks), and there’s tons of riding to be had.

A week of relaxing (and product reviewing) in Florida

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We also went wandering for pre-historic shark teeth, which wash up on shore with teeth from sharks thousands of years ago.

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

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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.

Week in Review–December 26th, 2010

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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.

Checking out the EZ-Trainer iPad ANT+ App

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

Cycling around South Africa

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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).