Heather and I went on a bike ride yesterday. I felt horrible because it was a bit more than Heather should have done being as it was her first time back on a bike since last year. We did the Chilleno loop out in the Petaluma/Novato/Marin farmlands which came out to a little over 30 miles. It wasn't so much just the distance but also the rolling hills. For me the route is completly doable but she really wanted a leasurly ride on Sunday.

The problem with the area we live in is there aren't a lot of simply flat areas. There were a lot of flat roads back in Walnut Creek that we could ride on for miles. In Petaluma, almost any direction you go from the house, you'll eventually hit some hills. I thought this ride had the most stretch of flat land areas that anywhere. Although we really should have simply rode up towards SSU and back, I realize there is less incline that way. I felt horrible, she struggled up quite a few hills and was completly discouraged.

I profusely apologized and I think she understood. I was just so ecstatic that she came out on the bike with me and didn't want her to feel she can't ever ride with me again. It meant the world to me that we went on a ride and it really didn't have to be some rigorous training ride. I told her I promised her the next rides we'll do will be much easier. She was sore when we got back but she did it. HMH and her red and orange Bianchi.  

I'll probably be riding after work today...

And then yesterday after work I rode... This was the route from door to door.  Took a little over an hour which isn't bad. Eventually I'll push up the weekday ries to 1.5 -2 hours. Started at the house and made my way up to SSU and back in a round about way.  

Here's a link to google maps of the general area

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.270263,-122.688789&spn=0.189488,0.31929&z=12

I'm not clear whether or not I will ride tonight, hit the gym for a resistance training or break today. Tomorrow evening is out as I have a work related obligation to attend to so I'm trying to compensate today.

Heather and I are doing fantastic!  All is well... Should post more soon.  

 BUT! It is there, you just have to figure out how to get it.

Yes, you can configure your iPhone to access your domain's yahoo mail through POP and SMTP. I did this for the last 2 months I've had the phone. But I realized that IMAP is a lot faster and it's synced with the servers PLUS it's a PUSH mail service which I like.

Why did I try to figure this out? 1. I'm a geek and I'm persistant to find solutions to everything and 2. IMAP access has better performance with the Yahoo servers and 3. It's push mail. 

SO how to configure it?

1. Settings Icon on the Phone

2. Mail

3. Add Account

4. Don't choose Yahoo, choose 'Other'. Interestingly if you setup your email with the Yahoo account it works. I did this and setup my address as emailaddy (at) email (dot) net (replace the 'at' with @ and 'dot' with . and use your own email user name address) with my passowrd and I was able to get mail and it synched with yahoo's IMAP servers. BUT I soon realized I had a problem SENDING mail. This is because you need to use SMTP for outbound mail and you can't configure that properly on the phone with Yahoo.

5. So use this configuration

Name: You name you want people to see

Address: Your email address

Description: What you want the phone to display in your email account lists

Incoming Host: imap.mail.yahoo.com

Username: your email address hosted by yahoo

Password: Your password

Outgoing Host: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com:25

username: your email address

Password: your password

Save it. It will try to save for a while and it may (did for me) ask you to try to attempt to Save it without SSL? Click 'Yes'! Then it will be "thinking" for a while. Don't worry, this may take a LONG while but eventually it should save off successfully. 

That's it!  You should now have IMAP access with push mail on your yahoo small buisness hosted web solution.

Works great for me!

 I'm back to training...well at least somewhat. It's tough to get training time in during the winter season due to lack of light in the day and bad weather. I ride when i can, have amped up my strength training and go to spinning classes when the weather is just to rough to take it outside. I still want to try for Vineman 2008. Well at least the half Vineman, I don't think I'll even get close t being ready for the full Vineman at least not this year...

 Working in Sonoma these days which has been quite nice. I'm certaintly not used to working in such a small town. I worked for years in the heart of the financial district of san Francisco which provded a wide assortment of variety with easy walking access.  It was certaintly easy when Heather lived in the Sunset district and I would spend all week with her and take the MUNI in. As much as how I would complain about MUNI, I actually miss it. I even miss her old neighborhood on 14th Avenue and Kirkham right up the road from the Irving, Judah, and the Golden Gate park that I would jog in from time to time.

hmm...the holidays are approaching and I still need to finish up the christmas shopping.

My uncle is having his usual New Years Even party that should be a blast. It will be interesting to see people who I typically only see at his party once a year.

I would suggest that if it's your first time here to visit  some of the older entires on the right hand side of the page...

busy lately...

Hopefully by next week there I will know enough to be able write up a decent entry. Not sure who actually reads these but....  

 ok so I will simply add a photo now and finish this tomorrow...I gotta get to sleep and didn't get home until late (click on the image for a full size)

 more about where the photo was taken the trip coming tomorrow.... zzzzzzzzz

Other than that, things are going well!  Staying in Carmel (Highland Inn) this weekend. Should be fun! Will take photos!

1. New job.

2. Went to New York.

3. Ended last job.

4. Lots more...

I will be posting again shortly with the details. Stay tuned 

Heather and I have been diligently working on the house (more Heather than I, hey at least I'm honest here).  It's coming along nicely. I still dread her commute but we will remedy that as soon as we can. 

Her and I have joined the Club Sport Renaissance gym down the street from us.  Fancy gym and it is costing us a pretty penny but it has class times that work for us and certaintly have the equipment and ammenities that work for both of us.

Work has been coming along the same as usual.  Dad retired and the parents will be back in town shortly and they can start relaxing, getting bored and we'll see how long it will be before my dad realizes he needs to find something to do. LOL.

More stuff going on in the pipeline that I can't write up just yet...perhaps a little later once the status of things move forward. 

I kept telling myself “This is a learning experience…just finish it”. I came out of the cycling piece 6^th which isn’t bad but the running piece killed me. The guy who was seeded first came through the finish line first with a time that was about 14 minutes faster than me.  But since we were all seeded going 10 seconds apart, the position I came through the finish line doesn’t correspond to what I placed. I won’t know that until later I presume. Heather, Kami (my uncle) and I left soon afterwards…I was starving.  The tri began at 7 AM and we arrived at around 6:15 AM on Saturday.  
 

I have to thank Heather for supporting me through this process and snapping the photos. Ken Papai took some of the photos and made a collage. There is a photo of me prior to the swim (the guy in the pink cap crossed the finish line first). Photo of me prior to the ride, coming in from the 14.5 mile ride, getting ready for the run, after the run and crossing the finish line.

Again I learned a lot and hope to take what I learned and apply that for the next one!   

(click on the photo for a larger shot)