Best Swim Ever

With the season now coming up I'm trying to shave some last seconds off the swim so I'm ready to go. Monday I had a good one, swam 7x300y on the 3:45. The first one I came in at 3:44 so only had a 1 second break. For some reason on these sets the first ones are usually the hardest for me. Once I got in a rythme I was coming in on the 3:35 so had plenty of rest.
The only downer was that the effort seemed to crush me in the pool the rest of the week. Tuesday was hurtin' for certain and Wednesday we had a hard 20x100y set. I was able to swim 1:09's but was still a couple ticks off where I could have been if I was feeling better.
We've been rolling out some good tempo runs on Highline. 35:05 for 6 miles last week. I'm just about to head down there in a few minutes to meet the usual crew.
We've decided to create a Riptide store to sell some logo and casual clothing so I just started work on that this week. I was going to use the MileHighAthletic.com code but then figured I'd try something new so downloaded the OSCommerce package. OSCommerce stands for open source commerce so is free code that you can use to create a commercial website. The code looks great. Installing it was a bit tricky, it definitely takes some know how to get it started. Now it's running but I haven't made any adjustments to it which will be the big job. There's plenty of functionality but it looks a bit plain:

so the work will be in getting it to look sharp.
The inspiration for this is come from the Rock & Republic cycling team. The team was started by Rock & Republic jeans founder Michael Ball. Many out there don't appreciate the team because many of it's riders have served banned for performance enhanhers. I'm all for the team though because of their business model. Ball is trying to make the team a profitable enterprise through Rock Racing branded clothing sales and not rely entirely on sponsors to support the team. Check the site: Rock Racing.
The gear looks awesome, loads of style. I like that he's got casual wear as well so you can flaunt he cyclist in you when you're hanging at the coffee shop. Cyrus made me realize a bit ago how there could be a market out there for this kind of clothing. Everyone likes to show off what they do and there aren't many good ways to do that with tris without wearing your race shirt and looking like a dork (unless it's an Xterra shirt, those things are sweet).
So we'll see if we can get the site up and rolling, hopefully it won't be too hard.