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
Another Fast event on 9.29
I got talked into teaching a class today at 10:20, a weight class. Then, I went to the pool. My warm up 500 was 7:30 and some change. After 2 hours of working out and going REALLY slow in w/u I"m very excited where this is. Finally, back to where I was, now it's all about getting faster! woo-hoo. Swam a 2800. Coincidently, they weren't fracing/drilling anywhere near me. Hmm, coincidence in my times
My body quite clearly forgot how to fun fast
5:30 AM I've had two days off, the Jack Russell(Parsons) Terrier, was driving me crazy, so I had a plan this morning. Take Mojo, Molly and do 2 "Lessley Loops" = (.8 miles x 2). Drop the dogs off and run a Rolling Acres Loop. 1.6 + 3.5 _____ 5.1 miles Actually my math at 4 AM was a little different, but hey, that's 6 hours of sleep. At any rate, with the dogs being dropped off and one trip to the ground to remind the Parson's Terrier who was boss total time was 44
Jaw Saga
I went to big Baylor this morning. I've had two days off since my big run, and I have ants in my pants. Any more than a day, and I start getting a little restless. So, my jaw bone is 6 mm off my joint, so what we are planning on doing is making a incision along my ear, the part of cartilage that kind of covers the ear opening, then we're going to clean up the soft tissue that is forming at the joint, then we're going to make a