Hey there, Waldo Watchers!

I'm always extremely satisfied and impressed with my workouts, but it's so hard to see results in the short-term and so hard to keep track in the long term. One bad day in a bench mark or a bad race makes the whole season look like crap. Since over the next year or so I'm going to be concentrating on volume I decided I'm going to do a virtual tour of certain parts of the world to keep myself motivated:

I'm going to swim from Barcelona to Rome. I'm going to bike from the northern tip of Newfoundland to the southern tip of Chile. I'm going to run from New York to Los Angeles. Clearly I'm not really going to do this, but I'm going to stretch my high-tech know-how and trace my "progress" on 3 google maps (I have such a geeky obsession with maps!) which I will put a link to on the sidebar of my training log (see link in the top right corner of this page).

This continuing effort, an enormous triathlon if you will, began on April 14,2007 (a day of no real significance, just a day I got disgusted with myself and decided I needed some extra inspiration), and will have a cut-off time of 8:59 am on May 16, 2008: my 25th birthday and 2 days before Lanzarote.

Routs in real space would be impossible. That's why I've devised a superpower for myself: I can bike across all surfaces and I can run over short bodies of water such as streams and small lakes. Also, I will not always be able to measure distances, for example, I'll assume that I go an average of 25 kmph on the indoor trainer in the gym, and will do my best to guess running distances. Since I am also doing this with a combination of the high-tech services offered by google, and the low-tech services of my tape measure against the screen, not all distances will be accurate. Here are the approximate distances I plan to cover:

Swimming To Rome: 844 km
Northern tip of Newfoundland- Southern tip of Argentina = 8,667 mi
New York-Los Angeles = 2,150 mi http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&channel=s&lr=lang_es&om=1&hl=en&z=2&msid=118209305642889227553.00000111fee9dce11baa0&msa=0