10.17.2010 3 hours and 35 minutes
That was long, that became very painful and I am still alive. I'll have to check to see if I still have a toenail. In the meantime, I"m going to put my 2XU compression tights on and work on recovery.
10.16.2010 Not such a good therapy session
Today is a day of active recovery and if I don't burn out on 50 and 75 bag of mulch and rock and I don't collapse while doing it, like last time, I'll get a recovery ride in later. Yesterday my swim workout was a 4200. Ikes, ran out of time, only had an hour, for a solid 2800. 400 swim/300 pull/200 breast/back and 100 IM. 9 x 200 Stairway to Heaven, or as Tom of Fountain of Youth then, laughs as everybody chimes in Hell. Add a fast lenght every 200. After
10.13.2010 I’m so dam tirurd
And I don't think it's the air quality. At least, I'm not sure. It should be that I wake up and run 1.5 to 2 hours around the neighborhood, and then, take a shower at my own beautiful home. Instead I recognized on my walk, it would be in my best interest to go somewhere else to run for cleaner air, and fresh water to bath in. Never take for granted the small things in life that you have, or we have. I left town at 7:45 and headed to the trail for
Lake Travis Swim
Loved it, great weather. Winner Male Solo 12 mile swim 4 hours. My team: 5:49 minutes. We're all pretty good swimmers, 30 minutes or less per mile. I generally place top third overall for the swim lag of a Tri. Today was almost good enough for last. Two of our members were at a 12 beer handicap. We could have probably beat our friendly rivalry we had going if we didn't have that handicap. I'm not sure I agree that was appropriate behavior, I actually thought it wasn't thoughtful of the other 4 of
10.8.2010 MTN Bike, MTN Bike how do I love thee
Let me count the ways. I have a new drill for mountain biking. Coasting, ride without pedaling only using your body to manuveur the bike. Pedal as little as possible, practice turning through the apex, so don't be surprised if you see this on your workouts or in a tip of the day. I'm getting better and better at handling the bike and for that I am grateful. Today after work, I went for therapy at Horseshoe. Nothing dramatic, just a once around, thought it would be an hour, not even close. So
10.7.2010 Life is so exciting
It's like mountain biking, you never know what to expect when you go around a corner. It has been a week, just like mountain biking twisting and turning, in and out, up and
I’m BA-ACK
Last week was a fairly stressful week, water samples back, we'll leave that for a different kind of race. Work, closing, etc. I decided on Friday I needed to "escape". I told my environmental consultant if that didn't work I was going to get drunk. She thought that was funny. She also thought the toxins may better help me fight off the other toxins. So I escaped. I worked and then I ran away to the North to Isle De Bois. It's the very first ride I have done there since
9.30.2010
On the Barnett Shale energy doesn't last forever, because when they finish one job they start a new one. Or like today, the wind changes directions. They started a new one too, but hopefully that one is too far away from me. I worked my butt off today. Got the SRAM proposal in for Team Zoe Fitness. Still trying to figure out what MBAS is, that's a research process in itself. I should conduct a research article: Gas Drilling Production and Performance In Endurance Athletes. Hmm