Aaron Webstey

New badges - view at http://triroost.com/yaga/badges/ :

This will resume again starting immediately. In 2016, winners will receive the glory of being publicly recognized by myself, a 200 point bonus toward your next forum level, and an optional back rub if we ever meet in person.

The December POTM, and possibly the 2015 Poster Of The Year, was @ItsShug . Shug created and ran the immensely popular TRS Secret Santa program, and generally amused us all with his wit and good looks. Well done, Shugar.

The January 2016 POTM is ... @DHansenTri ! Dave didn't do anything out of the ordinary in January - his "ordinary" posting month is just so great that it's impossible not to recognize. If we did repeat winners, I'm sure Dave would be in the running every month, no question. May god have mercy on his wife.

Congratulations, gentlemen.

As @TRS_tri mentioned on last week's episode, we have partnered with Culprit Bicycles. We help promote their kickstarter campaign, and they provide me with one fast-ass Croz Blade aero road bike.

Well, using the "colour picker thingy" I talked about (man, I'm good with words), I chose the following colours, and I might not stop drooling until the finished product is delivered.

Note that you can order this bike right now, in the exact same colours (or any of your choice), for $3295USD - fully built, including wheels. Not joking. http://culpritbicycles.com/collections/road-bikes/products/culprit-croz-blade-shimano-105


My frame:




Fully built preview from colour selector:

I'm no coach, but
- chocolate milk
- altitude mask
- shake weight
- copper bracelet
- HIT
- 60/30/10
- sharpen the knife
- train slow race fast
- easy days hard, hard days easy
- RPM work
- drills
- just do it
- #motivation

HBD to everyone's favourite pro, @maggieru

Father, husband, athlete, volunteer firefighter, mechanic, community builder, teammate, giver of himself. Also a minister. Happy bday, @PreachSwanson .

So, maybe not a great time to be expecting improved video coverage?

Can we create a "Burgundy Room" where we can talk about everything other than triathlon?

We have a category for that, it's called 'Main'

http://sudoscript.com/reddit-place/

"The rules were simple. Each user could choose one pixel from 16 colors to place anywhere on the canvas. They could place as many pixels of as many colors as they wanted, but they had to wait a few minutes between placing each one.
Over the following 72 hours, what emerged was nothing short of miraculous. A collaborative artwork that shocked even its inventors.
From a single blank canvas, a couple simple rules and no plan, came this:"

Did anyone participate in this? I can't help but imagine a triathlon version of this experiment, in which a giant Slowtwitch logo emerges in the centre and spreads, destroying all in its path. Meanwhile, our users figure out how to sneak a few drawings of donuts, middle fingers, and penis-shaped gummies into the far reaches of the corners, Macca pays for 100,000 robots to build and maintain the words "Super League Boys Are Fair Dinkum", and Jordan Rapp painstakingly etches out 500 words on why he refuses to get involved with this experiment (only to have them overwritten by a giant #NONERDS from #IMLP7th winner and social media darling Ray Bothelo).

It's only a matter of time (I hope) before somebody open-sources this software or something like it. Other ideas include an 'all endurance' version, with cyclists droning on about how there needs to be more rules and order, runners restricting themselves to a minimalist 4-colour sub-palette, and triathletes randomly placing a few pixels here and there and then bragging to their friends about how they're the best "Placetion" in their age group.

Ladies and gentlemen, the reason it took me so long to update the forum software and generally lollygag online and IRL for 4 weeks.



"It's a Lego table guys!!"
"Oh sank you daddy! Charlie let's play Pokemon"

Merry Xmas.