free breakfast

free breakfast
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Today is a day of free stuff. I waited over 20 minutes for this Jamba Juice. Don't think I'll wait that long again but once your in line it's hard to get out. Starbucks is apparently giving out free coffee so that will be my next stop.

It's cold

It's cold
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Camping is not for me.

Time to put on more clothes
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This past weekend I took a roadtrip three and a half hours south to train with my triathlon club. We went to Lake San Antonio where the Wildflower Triathlon is held every year. It is in just over a month and there were almost 150 from my club participating in the training weekend. Although I'm not doing Wildflower I thought it would be fun to go down and get some good workouts. The weather was beautiful but it got downright cold at night, too cold for me. As you can see in the picture, my buddy Son and I slept on cots in a really big tent that I borrowed from Alan. On Sat. I did a hard 56 mile bike ride followed by a 1 mile swim. We had a bbq that evening and I was in bed trying to stay warm by 10. The next morning I did a 1 mile swim and then went on a lovely 10 km run. I wanted to run longer but my foot has been bugging me over the past week so I'm trying to take it easy. This week, I will mostly do swimming and bike rides to give the bottom of my right foot a rest. Next year I hope to do the training weekend again but I will be staying in a cabin.

Time to learn

Found some interesting information that I thought I would share.

A short list of What Every American Should Know About the Middle East.

Arabs are part of an ethnic group, not a religion. Arabs were around long before Islam, and there have been (and still are) Arab Christians and Arab Jews. In general, you're an Arab if you 1) are of Arab descent (blood), or 2) speak the main Arab language (Arabic).

A companion list of what every resident of the Middle East should know about the US might also be helpful. (via chris glas

Blue Zone
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Has it really been a week since my last post? Yikes, I better step it up. With April comes exciting news. As many of you know I will be running the Boston marathon in 3 weeks but something crazy that I haven't been letting on is that I put in my notice at my current job. I won't be quitting until early/mid May but I had a talk with my boss last week since I will really need to give 100% to the Ramen truck business if I am to see it work. Matt, my business partner, and I have been talking a lot lately about the timeline and we're hoping to launch Tabe (ta-bay) Trucks by mid May. The actual website should be up in the next couple weeks (www.tabetrucks.com) but right now we just have a cover page to keep your interest piqued.

According to the Blue Zone site, I will live to 85.6 years but I'm not holding my breath as stress is not a good thing, being Okinawan is :) From a book about longevity: "We've found, for example, the behaviors associated with "happy hour" will give you more good years of life than the behaviors associated with going to the gym." That's not good for me.

In sports news, I've been playing a lot of soccer while I prepare for races and after the marathon I will probably be joining a competitive 11 on 11 mens team that plays on Sundays. Right now I play 8 on 8 competitive co-ed on Mondays and 11 on 11 mens intermediate on Saturdays. This past Saturday my team, Wasabi FC, got worked for a 7-2 loss. The silver lining for me was that I scored the 2 goals for our team. This weekend I will be traveling 3 to 4 hours away for a training weekend with my triathlon club where we will camp, have clinics, and swim run bike. Should be fun.