Troy Busot

La Familia (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:12:11 -0700

La Familia (Taken with instagram)

Flipper! (Taken with Instagram at Miami Seaquarium)

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:10:33 -0700

Flipper! (Taken with Instagram at Miami Seaquarium)

The joy is in getting there. (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:33:58 -0700

The joy is in getting there. (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:27:54 -0700

Taken with instagram

Sonny Kressaty? (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:09:35 -0700

Sonny Kressaty? (Taken with instagram)

VUURRstorming (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:02:32 -0700

VUURRstorming (Taken with instagram)

Haboob Revisited (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:28:54 -0700

Haboob Revisited (Taken with instagram)

Top of Snow Bowl (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:56:25 -0700

Top of Snow Bowl (Taken with instagram)

Took me 39 years - but I did it. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:15:20 -0700

Took me 39 years - but I did it. (Taken with instagram)

So many miles. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:37:45 -0700

So many miles. (Taken with instagram)

A post from Gangplank's Fat Off

Thu, 19 May 2011 21:31:13 -0700

This is a copy of a post from the Gangplank Fat Off blog regarding a recent change from wheat - which has had an enormous impact on my health.

Hello All! For those of you who don’t know me yet, I’m Troy Busot from Athlinks.com - a new anchor at Gangplank. I have been a fairly avid athlete all of my life - having wrestled, played football, and baseball during my formative years, and in the past 8 years or so I have taken more toward endurance events - namely triathlon (swim, bike, run).

I have had a passion for fitness for as long as I can remember - always enjoyed walking, running, or riding over driving. My diet has been what I would consider very healthy for the most part.
I mention this because I want to share a recent experience with you that illustrates that it’s never too late to learn - and experience - new things in areas that you thought that you had covered.
I have struggled with asthma for about 20 years (I’m 39). Growing up, I never had breathing issues - it wasn’t until I started smoking in college that I developed exercise-induced asthma. Basically, I had to use an albuterol inhaler each and every time I would train. Absent the inhaler, I would seize up and have to stop the activity. Sometimes, it was possible to ease into the training slowly enough over a 10-15 minute warmup, but that was pretty hit and *usually* miss, so I tended to opt for the pre-workout inhaler.
For the past few years, my doctor had been trying to get me on a daily steroid inhaler to try to manage the condition. Of course, there’s no cure for asthma, right? I watched my grandfather die of lung disease and was terrified that I would one day follow him to the wheezing grave. Still, something told me not to go for the dependency route that the daily inhaler would have taken me down.
On one of my recent visits to Gangplank, Tyler shared his experiences with ditching wheat and the positive effects that had on his body - like gastro and sinus problems. I took it in, agreed with his thinking, but didn’t really see any application to myself. You see, we are a fairly low-wheat household. We eat Amy’s Spelt tortillas, organic corn chips, brown rice pasta, rice toast … you get the idea. So, I didn’t really think about how much wheat I was really eating.
Then, about 4 weeks ago, I took a pump off the inhaler and went out for a 8 mile, slow run. I got about 1/2 mile in - at a very slow pace - and felt like I was drowning. My back muscles were cramping from over breathing, I wasn’t able to inhale or exhale completely, and I had to walk slowly back to my house. Fuck it! This isn’t me. I’m not a sick person. I’m not a weak person. I wasn’t going to let this shit beat me.
So, thinking about Tyler’s talk, I decided right there to cut what little wheat I was eating as well as dairy completely from my diet. Again, it wasn’t much - nightly cereal, Subway a few times per week, Rubios burritos, etc.
I shit you not, within three days, I completely stopped using the inhaler and my fitness nearly doubled. I was able to run farther, faster without even thinking about that damn inhaler. It has been 5 weeks now and I have slipped twice (pizza once and a Starbucks multigrain bagel) and I have paid both times with in-workout attacks on the day of the slip. On other days, I can do things that I simply couldn’t do before. I feel better than ever and my performances verify the increase in speed, endurance, and strength.
So, the point of all of this is that 1) you are what you eat. It’s cliche, we’ve all heard it before, but it’s true. 2) listen to your body. I preach this all the time, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I knew that I would crash from breads and other carbs, but I didn’t put it all together. Please, listen to your body - it will tell you everything that you need to know. Think about how you feel after you eat certain foods, after you don’t get enough sleep, after you do or don’t exercise. And 3) you’re never too old, seasoned, “expert”, etc - to learn new things.
I’m here to help. If we haven’t met yet, please stop by and say hello. I’ll answer any questions that I can with regard to diet and exercise, listen to your story, your goals and fears, or just offer any encouragement that I can - and I’m happy to do so.
Best of luck to all of you doing the Fat Off - I know it’s tough. Consistency is king.
Best,Troy

New members at Athlinks

Thu, 19 May 2011 09:54:03 -0700

New members at Athlinks :

If you want to watch as new athletes join Athlinks - check out this link.

Taken with instagram

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:40:45 -0700

Taken with instagram

Bike Commuting

Tue, 10 May 2011 20:58:49 -0700

Bar none - the best decision that I have made this year has been to give up the car and grab some steel, rubber, and chain lube. In just a few weeks, my technique on the bike and overall fitness have jumped forward in ways that I hadn’t anticipated.

The fixed gear certainly helps, but it’s not just the physical act of pedaling to which I attribute the changes, but also the spiritual act of reconnecting with my body and the road and fields around me.

Lunch (Taken with Instagram at Latitude Eight)

Fri, 06 May 2011 12:02:28 -0700

Lunch (Taken with Instagram at Latitude Eight)

Four days ago, I decided to ditch the car in favor of pedal...

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:45:48 -0700

Four days ago, I decided to ditch the car in favor of pedal power for any journey under 5 miles. So far, I’ve pedaled to Home Depot, Starbucks, the Gym, Sprouts Market, and of course, the office.

Today, in fact, I shot out of bet, ran an asthma affected 6 miles, grabbed some breakfast, hopped on the Torelli, and I was at my desk before 9am - energized and ready to kick the day in the nuts.

I’m shooting for 30 days without starting my car. Wish me luck and I’ll let you know how it goes along the way.

The Brand (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:41:18 -0700

The Brand (Taken with instagram)

Hello Mr. Busot,
My name is James Fazio. I am one of the Co-founders of virtualgoodybags.com here in Phoenix. As someone who is involved in the industry and an entrepreneur, I would like to talk with your about your experience with athlinks.com and maybe some key things I need to watch out for as we begin to grow.
Thank you,
James Fazio
james@virtualgoodybags.com
m: 928-607-5595

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:36:46 -0700

Hey James - I’m travelling for the next few days, but would be happy to chat. Shoot me a message next week and we can have a cup of coffee. You can reach me at 602-430-0237 or troy@athlinks.com

Best,
Troy

Microsoft is watching. And it's paying off.

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:54:00 -0700

I’ve spend the past few weeks taking a hard look at Ruby on Rails and PHP. I’ve move some of our content on Athlinks over the Amazon S3 services and our team is currently working to move more and more of it over there in the coming weeks - leaving us with only code executing on the Web servers. It’s not out of need, mind you. Our Web servers are handling things just fine. No, it’s really more a matter of fun.

Over the past several years, life as a .Net programmer has become more and more frustrating, mind-numbing, and full of envy for our friends over on the LAMP stack. They get better, faster access to the tools that are making the Web work (Memcached, CouchDB, SimpleGEO only recently added a .Net library).

So, as I was investigating things for a project that we are working on at Athlinks, I thought that I’d check out Scott Guthry’s blog. If you don’t know, Scott is one of the great minds at Microsoft who has been working on their MVC product. We have built our API on the MVC2 engine and really do love it. It’s fast and lean and strips out a lot of what I dislike about web forms.

I REALLY loved it … until I started messing around with RoR and saw what lean code really looked like. I was pissed! Come on Microsoft! How long is it going to take you guys to figure things out? Why is it that you used to lead and now you just follow - and follow so painfully far behind?

Back on point: so I popped over the ScottGu’s blog and started seeing references to MVC 3 and “Razor”. Oh dear. They chose a codename named after the last successful pre-smart phone. Way to go guys - draw a little more attention to your failings in mobile. (Although, Windows Phone 7 does look nice. Too little, too late? we’ll see).

“Ok”, I though, “I’ll bite. What’s Razor?”. Ooooohhhhhh. What is Razor, indeed. Before I go on - take a peek. It’s beautiful! Hey Scott, you should have code named this thing Double Rainbow!

With Razon, the team has seemingly looked at every character and put it on the chopping block. Check out this snip from the blog post for example:

Even in this trivial “hello world” example we’ve managed to save ourselves 12 keystrokes over what we had to type before. The @ character is also easier to reach on the keyboard than the % character which makes it faster and more fluid to type.

This was in reference to replacing the following traditional asp.net syntax of <%= variable %> with @variable. No angle brakets, no %, no closing brackets. Just a wicket smart parser and fewer lines of code. Dig it.

Razor and MVC 3 are currently in Release Candidate. We’re looking at it for some new things on Athlinks as well as our news product DiscoverMine. I’ll let you know more as I use it.

Thanks for reading!

Grandmas, such love. (Taken with Instagram at Thorpe Park)

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:03:09 -0700

Grandmas, such love. (Taken with Instagram at Thorpe Park)