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Story time with Mossym
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24-03-2014 5:21pm#1
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if it's going to, it's now. battrey power density became a hot topic with smartphones, when battery life dropped from days to a single day(sometimes less) with smartphones, but people accepted it becuase most people could leave the house and get home on a single charge that evening. if wearables take off, they are talking about 8 hours of battery life average on current use cases. power conservation is going to become so critical any lower power version of any common feature is going to start looking very attractive
Wearables to date have sucked. big time. stagnating phone sales proabably rushed them to market short of killer features though. i expect that to change. Might take another year, but wearables will balloon i think. this was the first year at CES i saw a lot of people sporting Google Glass. it's not for me in it's current form, but i do see the potential.
I work in the same company as mossym and every single word above has gone completely over my head except the word "power"
ok so...
whats your best performance so far in a race?
whats your most embarrassing incident so far in a race?
whats your favourite race?
sprint or Olympic in brian boru?
whats your next upgrade? bike? runners? wetsuit?
and for shotgun
how long can you hold a plank for?
and... how many press ups can you do in a row
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I work in the same company as mossym and every single word above has gone completely over my head except the word "power"
best tri, probably Castleconnell last year, still nothing to boast about but probably the most solid performance i've put in. Solid swim, solid bike(although athy bike was better) and reasonable run. put it this way though, lots of room for improvement this year.whats your best performance so far in a race?
best race: birdhill 10k in december. no watch, no idea what i was running, and a pb by several minutes over my last standalone 10k. was delighted with that.whats your most embarrassing incident so far in a race?
ocean lava in lanzarote. out on the bike, come around a tight right hander, and a really friendly policeman is waving hello. i wave back at him thinking this is a great place to race, and fly up the road, till the screams behind me make me realise friendly policeman was waving at me to tell me to turn right and i had just flown past him up the wrong road. rather meekish return path beatenwhats your favourite race?
from a limited few i've done: Ocean Lava. Sun, superbly organised, great location, savage course. it's made Lanza my goal 70.3 over the next couple of years
locally, i enjoyed castleconnell a lot this year, even though boru is even closer to me"
whats your next upgrade? bike? runners? wetsuit?
i'ma bit ofa gadget/gear guy, always been that way. Even when i was diving, i tend to buy good gear as if i don't i just end up upgrading anyway. So, bike is new, not raced yet, so not that. Runners, new again, won one pair in a brooks competition at xmas, and have another pair from the brooks try it on campaign, plusa couple of other pairs. Wetsuit, have a nice blue seventy which i can't see changing.
next big purchase will most likely be a power meter. the engineer in my likes numbers, so working to power makes a lot of sense to me.
and for shotgun
how long can you hold a plank for?
and... how many press ups can you do in a row
i expected MCOS to be in with those, i didn't think you'd beat him to it. Anyway, i'm going to defer this one until tomorrow. Already done a core session tonight, and a good rolling session, so will hit these tomorrow and report back. press ups will be pitiful, i have never been any good at them0 -
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Same course as you. I was in with the part-time group that was primarily Analog Devices heads. I used to commute down from Galway on Mondays & Thursdays with 2 other lads.
Wheelers was a regular haunt for brekkie on Mondays.
ah, that Analog devices crowd. don't know how anyone ever ended up there. oh...wait....
that would have been 98/99 then? there was a big bunch of part time folks who came in to what was our third year0 -
Damn you Trig!!
OK, how long can you hold a wheelie for on your Rockhopper?
How far underwater can you swim?
What does the wife make of the training and how do you balance family life?
Can you eat a heaped tablespoon of cinnamon?
How many burpees to fail can you do after reading this?
Favourite TV sporting event?
Last book you read?
Chocolate or crisps?
Current top 3 bucket list events?0 -
Hi Mossym.
What is your sporting background? And how did it lead you to triathlon?
Have you ever done a mud run/obstacle course? If so, how did you find it? If not, have you any interest?
Where does your user name, Mossym, come from?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how competitive do you rate your personality with 10 being most competitive?
Have you any tattoos? If so, how many, where and of what?
What is the craziest thing you've ever done?
What is the craziest thing you want to do but haven't done yet?
How did you find living in California? And what are the most striking characteristics of the people in California?
Do you snore?
What kind of music do you listen to? What musical artist or group have you seen the most number of times live? And how many times live have you seen that group?
What one word would you use to describe each of the following three logs: 1) "Rookie's diary part two", 2) "Another winter morning ergo: The last log", and 3) "The Five Year Plan - Year 2"?
What one log is your go-to log that you never miss reading?0 -
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shotgunmcos wrote: »
OK, how long can you hold a wheelie for on your Rockhopper?
that one's simple. cannot do a wheelie. tried to learn to do them as a kid, never mastered it, and still not ableshotgunmcos wrote: »How far underwater can you swim?
right now, probably 30 to 34m(two lengths of my local 17m pool at one point in time i could do 50m underwater. that was back when i was doing a lot of snorkelling/divingshotgunmcos wrote: »What does the wife make of the training and how do you balance family life?
the answer is getting a bit cliched, but i'm a lucky man to have such an understanding wife. I guess since she has known me i've always had some hobby that has consumed me, and had me gone a lot. first it was football, then it was diving, now it's training. she's not into sports/training in any way, which makes it bit harder, so it's a case of trying to make sure there is family time as well. she sees the positive effect it has on my life, healthier, not as heavy(at my highest she was starting to suggest losing weight might be a good thing, she didn't envisage this though), and most importantly, stress levels are way lower.
it is a careful balance, i know i'm at the point now where it's about as much time as i can put in without it getting to be too much, so i'm managing it carefully. runs are done at lunchtime where possible. Swims are pre work. Cycles are after the little one goes to bed.
it's better now that it was, up until november i was doing an MBA for the previous two years. Lump work, 20 to 30 hours study, and them some training on top of family life and see what is left.shotgunmcos wrote: »Can you eat a heaped tablespoon of cinnamon?
nope. i like a light dusting of cinnamon on porridge or apple pie(at times), but not really a fan. no way i could eat a tablespoonshotgunmcos wrote: »Damn you Trig!!
How many burpees to fail can you do after reading this?
i'll add that to the to do list, not sure the guys in the cubes around me would appreciate me trying now:)shotgunmcos wrote: »Damn you Trig!!
Favourite TV sporting event?
big football/rugby fan, but will watch any sport. for the sheer scale, and variety,i'll say the olympics, closely followed by the world cup. London 2012 was an incredible spectacle.
since i started cycling though i've gotten into watching the pro races. Love watching the spring classics and the TDF nowshotgunmcos wrote: »Last book you read?
last book i finished was Dance with dragons, the most recent book in the Game of thrones series. most recent book i am reading is Armageddon by mak hastings, about the final battle for germany 44/45. Bit of a WW2 nut.shotgunmcos wrote: »
Chocolate or crisps?
chocalate:)shotgunmcos wrote: »Current top 3 bucket list events?
ignoring anything to do with distance, as would have to consider the IM/not doing an im then, but jsut picking based on what i think are the most appealing races regardless of distance:
Norseman (come on, that ferry jump is just awesome, as is the finish)
Escape From Alcatraz (triathlon from one of the most well known prisons/islands, which happens to be near where i lived for quite some time, hell yeah)
IM Lanzarote (love lanzarote, been there a few times and always enjoyed it more than a lot of sun spots, and i;ve been to Hawaii/Cayman Islands, so the idea of doing a long race around the island appeals to me)
probably different to what the norm is either for reasons or the race. the other one that appeals is Otillo in sweden, have family over there and like Sweden, so that one could be pretty cool0 -
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Hi Mossym.
Hi Dory:)
What is your sporting background? And how did it lead you to triathlon?
played a lot of football(soccer) growing up. underage, junior level. moved to teh states directly after college, kept playing over there(at one stage for 5 different teams, 6 matches a week). took up snowboarding in a big way, wakeboarding, and scuba diving. Moved back to Ireland in 2006, haven't snowboarded since, but kept scuba diving until i had a couple of medical incidents including a trip in the decompression chamber in galway. Played inter firms football for a couple of years after moving back. but by 2010/11 i was doing nothing, save a bit of mountain biking round ballyhoura. Weight balooned up, was 215 to 220lbs at one stage. the summer between the two years of the mba we had a summer off. Went from 4 hours study a night to nothing. Couldn;t remember what i did with my time, so decided to start running. Never looked back. one sunny sunday, had run on the saturday, wanted to do something in the sun, dragged the mountain bike out of the shed and went for what i thought was a monumental spin on the mtb, 2 hours to cover 35 k or something like that. road bike was bought a month or two later, and as i was now biking and running, had grown up on the side of a lake swimming and was very comfortable in the water, tri was a logical step. It was something that had appealed to me for years though
no, never done one, but not against the idea, however i'm not a big fan of teh really comercially run ones that jsut get people to roll around in the muck and charge lots of money for it. something like the turfguy race would appeal to me thoughHave you ever done a mud run/obstacle course? If so, how did you find it? If not, have you any interest?Where does your user name, Mossym, come from?
first name maurice often gets shortened to mossy in ireland. i was signing up for hotmail or some other service back in the early days of the web(mid 90's) and mossy was gone as a username so i took the first initial of my surname and added it and mossym just stuck from thereOn a scale of 1 to 10, how competitive do you rate your personality with 10 being most competitive?
more compeitive with myself than with other, i think, but everyone that knows me will tell you i'm ultra competitive. call it an 8 so.Have you any tattoos? If so, how many, where and of what?
nope, no tattoos, not likely to either. don;t appeal to me
What is the craziest thing you've ever done?
probably some of the stuff we got up to snowboarding. boards off at the top of a ski lift, hiking for a couple of hours higher up mountains, well off-piste, and then jumping off the top of some very high drops. i remember coming down a chute between two rock faces one day, having to get strapped into the board while moving and before you went over the edge of a 20foot vertial drop. it was too steep to get strapped in while stopped, and if you didn't get strapped in in time and went over the edge not locked onto the board you were in big trouble. that was lump in throat timeWhat is the craziest thing you want to do but haven't done yet?
good question. might not seem crazy to most here, but probably an IM, think how crazy it looks if you're not into tri. my family thought what i did in lanzarote was crazy as they were there to see it.
only other thing i can think of is start my own business. definitely something i would like to do some day. i need to right idea first though, have something in mind but it needs work(it's 100% non sport related)How did you find living in California? And what are the most striking characteristics of the people in California?
loved it. moved there in 2000, r3 days after my final college exam. have a lot of family over there, aunts/uncles, so it's almost a family rite of passage to move there. moved there right as the dot com bust happened but lucked out and got a job. My wife(wasn't at the time) came with me, we'd started dating in college. She thoguht we were going for a year, i thought we were going for good. 6 years was the compromise .:)
at teh age i went, it was superb, were gone every weekend on one of the sports i listed above, or something else. lived it up to the max. that's probably what i loved most about californians, the attitude that to be doing something was normal, sitting around having a quiet weekend meant you were crazy, almost a mirror image of Ireland when i left it(it's changed a bit now). that does tend to grate on you a bit as you get older thoughDo you snore?
Yes. At least i am told i do. Not regularily thoughDo you snore?
What kind of music do you listen to? What musical artist or group have you seen the most number of times live? And how many times live have you seen that group?
everything. right now i am listening to a classical compilation album. i;m a big fan of 90's dance music, especially trance (think gatecrasher, MOS, cream, that sort of thing). also equally into rock/alternative music. My other big passion is home cinema/audio, so i listen to a lot of music. google my username with home cinema after it and you'll see what took all my money before i started spending it on bikes
i;ve seen U2 7/8 times, but that was mainly while living in the US, and i'm not sure i would go see them again. have seen springsteen and arcade fire a few times each, and both of them are spectacular concerts.o
What one word would you use to describe each of the following three logs: 1) "Rookie's diary part two", 2) "Another winter morning ergo: The last log", and 3) "The Five Year Plan - Year 2"?
you'll get me in trouble here:)
1) Hunger
2) Divergent
3) BraveWhat one log is your go-to log that you never miss reading?
this year, mcos. jsut because it's something so different from the norm and he's dabbling in things i know nothing about, which makes it fascinating to see the training/effort that goes in . Bambatta and Fazz a close second as they're at the opposite end of the spear to me and i like seeing what effort that takes0 -
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Talk to Griffin1000 about Otillo, he has been looking for someone for years to do that race with him I've mentioned it to a few people over the years who I thought might be up for it and they have all looked at me like I was mad!!
Have to say, this thread has been very useful for me. I have the chance of doing an MBA this year with work covering the fees and I am sort of tempted but your description of the amount of work involved is putting me off, so thanks for that
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Talk to Griffin1000 about Otillo, he has been looking for someone for years to do that race with him
otillo would be a long term thing, not for this year or next.
Favourite Movie Character?
joker in Dark knight. Ledger made him all sort of messed upFavourite Scene from a movie?
opening beach scene from Saving Private Ryan. as i said, but of a ww2 nut, and while i'm sure the reality was a hundred times worse it gave some indication what hell those guys went throughNot too many Slices around the race scene here - what pushed you towards it?
walking around the tri in lanzarote last november got a chance to look at a lot of bikes, even the pro's. there was lots of cervelos, and lots of slices
local shop being able to get them narrowed down the choice to those two, was a toss up between the cervelo and the slice, but then everyone fast has a cervelo so i went with the slice:)
component wise not a lot between them(the 105 versions that is), so for my level i think the slice will do just fine. happy out with it so far anwyayAny time goal for the Lost Sheep?
good question. been putting off really thinking about that till after kilkee, (haven't figured that one either), and it needs a discussion with coach. i'd be very happy with:
35 to 37 swim
3 hour bike
1hr 50 hm
so finger in the air goal of 5:30. that could go either way by june though..:)0 -
griffin100 wrote: » I've mentioned it to a few people over the years who I thought might be up for it and they have all looked at me like I was mad!!
Have to say, this thread has been very useful for me. I have the chance of doing an MBA this year with work covering the fees and I am sort of tempted but your description of the amount of work involved is putting me off, so thanks for that
don;t let me put you off. Was it a lot of work. hell yes. it should be. did it impact life. hell yes. in a huge way. no way to avoid that, you hit it head on or don't even start.
was it worth it. hell yes. different person after it. one of hte toughest but most rewarding things i've done. knowing what it is like now, would i make the same decision? Yes0 -
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Hey Mossy,
Money no issue whats your dream bike and set up?
TT: a P5, set of zipps, Di2 duraace
Road bike. Not sure, but probably a colnago c60Hey Mossy,
Which power meter are you looking at possibly buying??
undecided as of yet. i want one that allows me to easily move between bikes with different BB, allows me to switch between deep rim and training wheels whenever i want, and is rock solid. so still looking..:)Hey Mossy,
Your getting coached this year, do you think the main benefit of the coaching is the planned structured sessions or the fact you have someone to answer to if you miss a session, making it harder to skip one??
Yes.
it'sa bit of both, but mainly the planned structure, and as importantly the consistency in training. some of the days are easy, some are harder, before everything was the same. don't think i could have got to the volume i am doing now if i had kept going the way i was, and that volume consistently really seems to be helping.
expectations about time and sessions was all part of the early discussions. having a family, travelling internationally, job was all going to impact on training, so not every session was going to get done. it does help that someone is there to answer to, but if you have to miss a session you have to miss it. One of the best things we discussed was missing a session to spend time with family made a lot of sense. missing one because i was tired or lazy didn't. That stuck. if i look back at the last few months, apart from injury i think i;ve missed very few sessions (did them at least, did them to the level described is another debate), so i'm excited to see what the season brings0 -
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