The Everyday Athlete

By means of end-of-year wrap up, here’s a list of my favorite things from 2007… Part One!

Music, gear, blogs, designers, magazines, moments and more… Enjoy!

Music

Albums

• Tegan and Sara - The Con
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Bloc Party - A Weekend In the City
• Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
• Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
• Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
• The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
• Timbaland - Shock Value
• M.I.A. - Kala
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Kanye West - Graduation"
• Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
• Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
• Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8
• Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
• Menomena - Friend and Foe

Music Videos

• Rihanna: Umbrella
• Gym Class Heroes: Cupid’s Chokehold
  
• Kanye West: Stronger
• The Killers: Read My Mind

Gear

Cycling

• Crank Brothers egg beaters for ‘cross
• Selle San Marco Glamour Arrowhead saddle
• Descente wombat gloves

General Workout Gear

• adidas running cap
• Lululemon active tank, capris, jacket
• Prana Yoga Mat
• Foam Rollers!
• Pull-up Bar

Life Gear

• Badger Balm
• Black Low-Top Cons

Workout

Nutrition

Products

• Jay Robb Protein
• Jay Robb Fish Oil
• Flax Oil
• Wonderslim Wondercocoa
• L-Glutamine Powder
• Clif Shots
• Hammer Gel
• Hammer Heed
• Hammer Recoverite

Programs

• Precision Nutrition
• P90X Nutrition Plan
• Turbulence Training
• Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat
• Fit Over Forty (This guy’s stuff is really amazing!)

Revelations

• Eat more to weigh less (calorie restriction is dumb… get the metabolism going, baby!)
• Interval training is way more effective than I could have ever imagined
• Bike fitness comes from bikes only. Period.
• Lifting weights burns insane amounts of fat.

Productivity

• iPhone
• MacBook Pro
• iTunes AudioBooks

Misc

• iPhone unlimited

Blogs

See blogroll for links if not provided.

Fitness

• Maggie Wang
• Skwigg
• Julie Berg
• Tom Venuto

Cycling

• Molly Cameron
• ErikV
• Belgian Knee Warmers
• Mud, Sweat and Gears
• The Missing Saddle

General

• Wicked Weaving
• BettyC

Photography

• The Strobist
•  Pixelated Image

Magazines

• Tin House (literary quarterly)
  
• Sun Magazine (writing)
  
• V Magazine (fashion)
  
• Cyclocross Magazine
• VeloNews
• Runners World
• ZoeTrope

Clothing Lines and Designers

• Yohji Yamamoto
• APC
• Mociun
• VPL
  
• Chie Mihara
• Tsumori Chisato
• Tom Scott
• Schiesser
• Earnest Sewn
• Nili Lotan 

Moments

• USGP #6 in a Typhoon - the moment I dumped my bike on the last lap of my first B race. In the icy mud-puddle, just before I jumped up I had an incredible moment of clarity in which the full impact of my cyclocross progress hit me square on.
• Third chocolate martini on the night I left my old job to start my own gig.  Damn.  Good moment.
• Opening the email that told me my business was "official".
• Move in day at my photography studio.
• Opening the box that contained my new 5D.
• The day I sold my first photo.
• This moment in bootcamp (pain cave)
• Finally getting back to the car after this death hike with my cousin
• My first full bridge in bootcamp
• The day I learned to hit opposite field
• This moment at estacada (Best Day Ever!!!)

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