What does Caveman say, “Keep on, Keeping on”?
A lot of other people say it too, it's a song, and such. But I can't help but think that sums it up. It's a lonely road right now, A Very Lonely Road A very lonely road that weeps of sorrow. If there was one person in the world, just one, that was going through what I was going through, or had a small incline of what I've been going through. I once wrote an article: per my Team Captain: Jay Ellis "The Trials and Tribulations of an Endurance Athlete". This was a race review of my experiences in Maui at
3 hour Bike Workout of the Week
Via Michael Winegar's Program Design: 30 minutes EZ Zone 1 (RPE 1-3) 30 minutes TEMPO Zone 3 (RPE 5-7) 1 hour Race Pace Zones 3 - 5a (RPE 7 -10) 30 minutes TEMPO Zone 3 (RPE 5-7) 30 minutes EZ Zone 1 (RPE 1-3)
Big Week: Finally completed the 100 up challenge
100 Up Challenge Sprints I'm up to about 6 x 100, with the Mojo in a run. It's not easy to get a fat chocolate lab to run!! Completed! First Road ride since becoming to sick to ride the road in Texas. That was refreshing, but not enough work. Not enough, at all. 2 days off: 1)work 2) too busy, yuck. Can't wait to ride today with my friend Jen: 3 hours Zone 1-2 with a 30 minute Tempo. Hopefully that's a hill. One of my favorite races was this weekend: Comfort. Connie showed up in style. Isn't
Make Your Body More Metabolically Efficient
Make Your Body More Metabolically Efficient By Bob Seebohar Now is the time of the year when the thoughts of dropping weight and body fat become extremely popular among triathletes. But what about planning your race day nutrition and eliminating the GI distress monster that rears its ugly head during your races? The concept of metabolic efficiency can have a significant impact on body composition and GI distress and can reduce your need for simple sugars during a race. Efficiency is a term that is typically associated with sport. From a nutrition perspective,
Things are not always as they seem
Monday: cold, kinda rainy, beat tired from Puzzler, movies and snuggling on the couch with the monkeys with many naps. Tuesday: Cranky, feeling over trained, thought for sure I would be in the pool for a light swim, as snappy as I am, better rest. Otherwise, my poor children
P.S. USA Cycling…I’m not 43!!
Not yet, anyways. This is the time of year, I hate, when I have to tell people I'm a year older than I really am. I know, I know
I’ve been so excited, I can hardly contain myself
It was tough to co-ordinate. Even though, I've known which two of the TMBRA Marathon Races I've been wanting to do for 6 months, I wasn't sure how I would be juggling all of life's curve balls. I wasn't sure if I would get another long ride in. I was able to make that happen last Thursday. I got in 5 hours and some 75 miles last week, on the road. About 3000 feet of climbing. It's hard to remember the last time I road that long, on the road. Then, I had to
The Lost Secret of Running: Article and Video
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