As I prepare for 10DL my training grounds in San Francisco. This panorama in full screen will blow you away. This is the water that I swim and row in every weekend (although Adam is encouraging me to put in more miles on the bike in preparation for our mountain ride). Props to the photographer [...]

Tags: open water swimming, panorama, pilot boat, san francisco bay, Training

I took the new Suunto X10 on a trip to Portalón, Costa Rica. The trip was one one-part real estate recon and one-part adventure travel. The watch was useful for both. For the adventure travel part of the trip, I traveled on horseback through the rain forest near Manuel Antonio National Park. It was the perfect [...]

Tags: altimeter, barometer, battery life, google earth, gps, interconnection, mashup, suunto, thermometer, x10, x10 review

I’ve always thought that Antarctica will be the most physically difficult expedition of all our 7 10DL expeditions. Until now I never had a structured way of thinking about how to measure “difficulty”. From a energy expenditure perspective, Antarctica will be the hardest. Here’s how I performed my calculations.  1. The first step is to [...]

Tags: amount of calories, athlete, australia, body, caloric expenditure, calories per hour, cold, continents, cycling, degree, effort, exertion, expedition series, Hiking, Latitude, ming, open water, range, Temperature, Training

We did it man, and here are the photographs to show you our journey. A shout-out to Best Western, especially Marie Yarroll, Senior Manager of Public Relations. Best Western sponsored 10 Degrees Latitude and asked Neal to contribute content for their newly launched blog called “You Must Be Trippin”. The latest one is Healthy Continental [...]

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A training flashback…  As preparations begin for 10DL North America in 2011, I began pulling out some of the toughest training days of the past few years.  Mt. Evans is certainly a highlight.  We cycled to the summit of Mount Evans at 14,264 feet. Mount Evans has the “highest auto road in the US”. We did [...]

I’ve been getting two or three email a week about my previous blog post on swimming the Schuylkill River. People are wondering where to jump. Here’s a map. My previous post has information on water quality (it’s good). When Adam and I swam here we jumped in at the parking lot, swam upstream 1 or [...]