After a good workout on Monday, the rest of the work-week lacked any quality workouts. Instead I was in front of a computer most of the time, even after work. I’m the computer-geek of the family and tech-support my relatives over the phone when they have technical problems. Though I’ve gotten good at walking people through computer issues over the phone, it’s just so much faster if I could see what’s on their screen.

I’ve looked into remote control solutions in the past, but I have the requirement that it needs to work on a Mac so I can help my mother in New York. I had researched TightVNC and Vine VNC in the past but ended up abandoning them because they were too complicated to set up. But last weekend I came across LogMeIn.com. It lets you remote control another computer through a web browser! The computer you want to remote control still needs to install a client, but it’s a small download and the installation is fairly simple. Now LogMeIn isn’t perfect—the process for setting up my account so I could manage multiple computers across multiple family members, was clunky. But when I finally got everything set up, it worked great. With the other person watching the screen while you fix something, you have the opportunity to explain things as you go and it turns into a learning session. Like they say, “Give a man a fish…teach a man to fish…!”

So my workouts suffered this week due to lack of time and energy. But today I got on the rollers and did a 2×20 workout. My warm-up didn’t feel too bad, but when I started my first interval, my wattage was low. I didn’t stress about it and just decided to ride it out and not worry about wattage. The second interval went better and got a decent average wattage. I ended the ride feeling much better after the ride than when I started and that’s always a good thing!