My apologies to Kewl Nitrox and to “Stephan” (I think a first time visitor) who tried posting comments and weren’t able. I found the content of your attempted post and manually put it back in so all is well.

EDIT: After receiving a comment from the author himself, I’ve decided to give Bad Behavior (this time, 2.0 beta 1 instead of 1.2.4) another try. If any of you have any problems posting comments, please do let me know so can report back! Thanks!

I’m using SK2 with the Akismet plugin. While WordPress 2 comes with its own standalone version of a plugin that uses Akismet to check for spam, I like the control that SK2 gives you; it’s nice to know that some checks are handled locally as opposed to my comments going off someplace I don’t control to have its fate determined. To be fair, I had no problems or false positives or anything when trying the standalone Akismet for several days. It seemed to work just fine.

In other geeky news, I’ve been looking for an different web based RSS aggregator than my trusty feed on feeds one that I’ve been using for the past year or so. I really have no problems with it, but it’s pretty ugly. :P I’ve tried a bunch and Gregarius seems to be the front runner. I’ve had some issues with it, but hopefully those were isolated to the fact that I was running a beta version and not the current release. At least it’s still being developed whereas feed on feeds hasn’t been updated in ages now.

And that’s my tech dump of the morning. Hey… my technology category needs love every once in a while. :)

As a quick update, training is still going OK. My last long run (which I’ve been meaning to post about for a laugh) and my last long ride are done! Now, I get to really taper (it’s hard to call something a taper when you’re still doing two hour runs and five hour workouts, but those are done now!).

I went to the Minnesota state fair yesterday. Lets see… I ate cheese curds, a papa pup (a foot long corn dog, basically), a three foot beef stick, a pork chop on a stick, some french fries, a cheeseburger wanton thingie, a deep fried turkey sandwich, an egg roll, a turtle brownie, a large cup of ice cream, and a Corona. And despite my attempt to kill myself with deep fried saturated fat goodness, I also got my cholesterol checked! I don’t think I’ve ever had that done before, and with at least some heart disease in my family as well as some folks with high cholesterol, I was a little bit worried about the results. But it turned out to be for nothing – my numbers were good! My overall cholesterol was 192, my HDL was 54, and my cholesterol ratio was 3.6. The lady who spent time explaining the results to me basically said I was good to go in all three categories.

“I have nothing to lecture you on. Just eat well – lots of fruits and vegetables. And make sure you exercise.”

State Fair Cholesterol Checking Lady

Lady, you have no idea… :)

What is this?
This is a little hack that uses Google’s superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout.

Works fine for cycling too. Below is the map of my normal out and back long ride. The mileage was pretty much spot on. What’ll they think of next?

Also, some of you may have already noticed that my site now exists just as http://www.chivalry.net. The trailing “wordpress,” while still functional (for now), is no longer needed. It’s certainly not a pressing issue, but please update your bookmarks when you get a chance (and sorry to those folks that just did this exercise a few months ago when I changed domains back to this one).

In any case, I think the problem is solved. Turns out, I needed the following in my CSS file:

ul.post-meta {list-style: none;}
ul.post-meta span.post-meta-key {font-weight: bold;}

If you view my pages source code, I don’t see any reason why any of the above would be triggered or necessary. But the above is indeed essential for the page to look right in Safari. Any CSS gurus know why this is the case?

So if things are broken, I’m sorry for the mess. Hold tight. I’m still trying to get it all fixed.

Yesterday’s ride went pretty well. I only ride about 85 miles or so. I thought about doing another loop through our local park reserve to get that closer to 100, but I negotiated with myself and got a three mile transition run instead. All parties were happy. :) The winds on the way out were really brutal. I just turned my bike computer to stopwatch mode and went purely on HR and RPE. My average pace for the ride ended up being pretty close to what I’d have expected had there been no wind, so I guess I did a pretty good job of pacing.

I think I’m going to take today completely off! I loooovvve my rest days!! I have MinneMan tomorrow and I’ll probably do another workout on Sunday to kill the legs before my recovery week. All of Mike’s posts about his recovery week have me really looking forward to mine.