Remember David Downey, featured in IEEE Spectrumâ¿¿s February 2008 Dream Jobs Special Report? Downey, an EE working on fitness equipment for Garmin International in Kansas City, KS, also organizes that companyâ¿¿s team for the annual Kansas City Corporate Challenge going on right now (and in its thirtieth year). Entrants compete in a vast variety of sportsâ¿¿those you might expect, like basketball, soccer, football, swimming, and trackâ¿¿as well as those you might not expect, like darts, bowling, fishing, and tug-of-war.

Downey reports that the Garmin team is doing well this year, in second place in its division at the end of the first full week of competition. He personally is competing in the bike race and the triathalon; the triathalon fitting neatly in with the final testing of his latest product for Garmin, the Forerunner 310XT, a GPS watch designed for triathletes, designed to track distance, pace, and heart rate, in and out of the water; it also tracks the transition time between events. It will go on the market 8 June.