1. Pentax Optio W80 Waterproof 12.1MP Digital Camera With this litter camera I can video all my friends' free style stroke and hopefully get it critiqued by a swim coach, thus making them faster swimmers. Also, it would be a cool toy to have when I take my five year daughter Ainsley and eight month old son Mateo to the pool. Imagine way back, who would ever have thought we would be taking under water photos of our children?
2. Quarq Power Meter, FSA Team Issue We use to train primarily by heart rate but now the tool for the 21st century is power. No more waiting for my heart rate to go up, no more heart rate affects from diet or fatique. Power is instanenous and doesn't lie. It's also a must for a triathlete who really want to focus on efficiency and maximizing energy expenditure so the run on the Ironman is not snail slow.
3. Zipp 1080 Wheelset According to TriTalk's David Warden, aero wheels drop olympic distance race times by at least a minute. For an Ironman Distance that's around five minutes or more. Of course the devils advocate could ask "What's the point of five minutes?". Well, at my level it's probably not worth the expense but I sure could use a five minute catch up on the bike because I was five minutes slower on the swim than most of my age group, meaning I don't have to expend my quads on the bike as much, and have a faster run time.
4. New Balance Men's MR850ST Running shoes that fit well mean less pain now and less injury later. Enough said.
5. Nikon D700 This camera has a sensor with the same dimensions of the old school 35mm camera. You're like, so? Well it's a big deal because Nikon's old school lenses have f stops at f/1.4 and f/2.8. What does this mean? It means you don't have to use a flash with your indoor photos and make your friends' faces ghost white and make their eyes appear blood hangover red. It's also a tool for narrowing depth of field so background objects can be blurred out and making the viewer concentrate on the subject. The extra speed also means more pictures in low natural light. You will not have to wait for the flash fire up to take an other shot. You just shoot people in real life, and in the actual light that they saw. Some of the best photos in history were taken this way.
5. Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card With this little card in your camera you eliminate some computer pain in your life. Just stick this card in your camera and when you get back to your computer your photos are already there. Now, there are range limitations, but hey it means one less chord hanging from my desk so this thing is awesome.
5. Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card With this little card in your camera you eliminate some computer pain in your life. Just stick this card in your camera and when you get back to your computer your photos are already there. Now, there are range limitations, but hey it means one less chord hanging from my desk so this thing is awesome.
