I lost my triathlon virginity last April, doing a sprint distance on Friday and an olympic distance on Sunday.

In the olympic distance event, towards the end of the swimming leg, when I noticed I could touch the ground I started running inside the water and I hit a cement plaque underneath. It didn’t affect me [...]

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I don’t like how my writing is turning out in this blog. I’m just incapable of writing well enough, and I don’t wanna spend the time and effort to do it better. So I’ll just use bullet points. I use bullet points for pretty much everything, so why not here to?

Mayor achievement: I won my [...]

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Looks like the previous version wasn’t even working because there was a missing file.
http://www.alpeb.com/itunesremoteweb/iTunesRemoteWeb_0.2.zip
P.S:  Don’t take this app too seriously, it’s more like just a proof of concept.

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Sometime around last Christmas season I was stuck in a traffic jam, and a couple of dudes broke the passenger’s seat window and stole my iPhone. Gotta love the third world. What I’ve been missing the most about my favorite toy is the Remote app, that allows you to control iTunes remotely, and even change [...]

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Man that was hard. It was around 0 Celsius at the start, and there I was, half-naked, waiting for a half an hour. Not a chance to warm up since I had to get into the target pace section. Everybody else was smart enough to wear old sweaters and sweatpants that they would throw away [...]

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After having finished my first half four years ago with a time around 2:20, I finished yesterday Medellin’s half-marathon at a very satisfying new race PR of 1:48. First time I don’t feel I either started too fast or didn’t give enough.
Everything went as planned: kept a 5:13 min/km pace almost all the time, started [...]

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I joined a triathlon training team three weeks ago and I’m following a detailed training plan now. The routing has been very different from what I’m used to. I miss my daily runs now that mileage has come down significantly, to make room for gym work, swimming and a lot of biking. Still, the [...]

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I had this idea of getting my first marathon done and out of the way, so that I could start training for a triathlon, which was something I was looking forward to because, among other things, I was tired of constantly getting running injuries every time I twisted up a notch the training intensity.
So I [...]

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I’ve been running for years now, racing only for 10K and half-marathons. I had aimed at running my first marathon like 5 months ago, but I had to keep on pushing back because of many injuries. The last one I had planned was for Miami in January, but after having done my first few 20 [...]

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