70 minutes
Hey, 70 minutes off road with the Vibrams. The first hour felt great finally working on cadence and coming out of recovery. Thought I was going to have a negative split
What Up…EVERYTHING
Just got done with sprints. That was totally awesome. My first official workout with intensity post jaw break. Going to swim later, let's see the workout: I'm going to try to do the full 3k. Ouch! I will stop at 2.5 if I have to. I only got in 2k the other day, so that will be well, an increase that I generally wouldn't recommend my athletes to do. I'm going to give it my all and see what I have. So a minimum 2.5, which is my largest swim
The Art and Science of Warming Up
Warming up is both an art and science. It is going to fall somewhere in between 10-20 minutes w/ 5 to 7 minutes rest before you race. It may be FREE it may be Scripted. It may be an advantage not to warm up; depending on the weather conditions. If it is cold or hot, it may be better to keep yourself warm in a car, or keep yourself cool with ice. The most important aspect of a warm up: is to be flexible. Most people think a trainer is best: I think ROLLERS are best; Either way there is no
First Mountain Bike Ride Post-Op
Tuesday: went to L.B.Houston and cranked out a lap while the monkeys were at swimming. In 2 months, I forgot how to ride a mountain bike. It was a good lap and exactly my weakness, going through the trees. It took me 45 minutes to do 7.5 miles. It wasn't race pace, it gives me a goal. Ride 2 laps in an hour. That will get me flowing through the Texas Trees at a pretty fast pace. Of course, I was a little scared, had two dabs, mostly because I
Monday 6.15.10
Ran 3.5 No speed records, actually slow as molasses in 31 minutes, with my Vibram 5 fingers, kinda tough to walk again today, getting better. Swam: 2150. Great workout Thanks Coach Tom: 600 warm up: 300 swim/200 pull/100 kick 10 x 50 on 1 minute 8 x 75 = 50 moderate/25 kick sprint 2 x 125 = 50 moderate/50 moderate hard/25 sprint 200 cool down. Coach Tom can be found at Fountain of Youth Masters, Flower Mound and Irving Masters. He's the best, Thank You. or if you just want your kids to get faster: Irving Swimmers;
Clif C Bar: Fruit, Nuts and Sea Salt
New Favorite Thing in the Whole World: Clif C Bar: Fruit, Nuts and Sea Salt They come in a variety of flavors; Here's the Blueberry: (apple doesn't have sugar) Ingredients: Organic Dates, Organic Blueberries,(organic blueberries and evaporated cane juice), Macadamia Nuts, Organic Blueberry Juice Concentrate, Organic Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sea Salt(Real Salt), Natural Vitamin E
Xterra/Gas/Jaw/Trees/2012
Of course, multi tasking. Looking over Kat's Xterra 12 week program she won being the South Cup Champion. Yes, the South Cup Champion. There are definitely some flaws to this. Primarily no rest weeks. And with life there's truly few people who have 14 hours to train. I've gotta figure out who this guy is. It's a nice program, and you will get faster. His rest weeks are full of intensity. It's half the training, I just don't think his cookie cutter program fits all. That's the trouble with some
DORBA 24 hours of Erwin Park
6.6.10 I love Sundays, I love life, I love doing different things. This morning I wanted to go help out a friend, Terra Firma Promo and a client, Rich Szecsy so my alarm went of at 4 AM. I showed up just in time. Rich had just given up on eating, or drinking anything but water. I brought my usual nummy nums: watermelon, big hit, didn't bring near enough. Moldy poops, otherwise known as 'caveman bars': dates, honey, cashews and coconut, espresso, he didn't like that too much and chicken, that
Sunday, oh glorious Sunday
Hey, went mountain biking yesterday. I know, I know, I'm not supposed to go for at least another 3 weeks. Slow down, I took my baby monkey over to L.B. Houston in Irving yesterday while my oldest little monkey was swimming. She was a little freaked out at first, her first time, for the most part on single track. She was doing great, putting her feet down when she felt she needed to. Well, until we saw a 3 foot snake. She totally freaked, stopped, dead even with the snake, and
Running Tip
On occasion run barefoot. To start, find a nice soft grassy field, like a soccer field and run a short distance barefoot. You can graduate to a track, and to asphalt. This helps in strengthening the muscles of the lower leg/foot including all your stabilizing muscles. Slowly increase your distance/time. There’s a whole group, can you believe, who run marathons barefoot?!? The nice thing about running barefoot, your body can feel when you are not running in proper