Archive for June, 2006



San Jose International Triathlon

Published on June 25, 2006

Is that a picture of Chris Liou, SJIT age group winner!!  Chris and a lot of other folks put in great performances at todays race.  This is the second year I’ve missed San Jose. Last year Heather and I did the inaugural Philadelphia Triathlon. It just happened to fall on the same day as the [...]


Visit to Kona Earth Coffee Farm

Published on June 5, 2006

While in Kona, we visited the “Kona Earth” coffee farm. Gary Strawn, a former co-worker of Dave’s from Netiverse and Cisco, left the silicon valley life and moved to Kona to manage a coffee farm. Gary, his wife, and two young daughters have been there two full seasons now and are becomming more [...]


Honu Half Ironman

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A few of us from Silicon Valley came to Kona for a Half Ironman Triathlon. The race was Saturday, June 3rd starting at 7am. A half ironman consists of a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike, and a 13.1 mile run.
To be honest, I wasn’t really prepared for this race like [...]