About a month ago I decided to take up running. I have been running on a treadmill and I am up to about 4 miles at a time. I am still really slow, but I am trying to build distance first before I build up speed. Last night I took my 9 [...]
This morning will be my first Mountain Bike Race in over a year. Life has gotten in the way of racing this year. A new job requires much more of my time than previous jobs. My daughter’s sports have taken a couple of hours away from training. My lack of discipline [...]
I have actually made it to work out 2 days in a row. I did an upper body workout Monday morning. This morning I did 34 minutes on the tread mill. I ran for the first 10 minutes at 6 miles per hour. It feels good to actually be working out [...]
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This is what makes life fun, being able to ride bikes with my daughter. We did have to make sure we stopped for the ice cream truck.
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A friend of mine asked me if I thought I could do a Half-Ironman Triathlon in 2 years. I was crazy or dumb enough to say yes. How hard could it be? I have already done 3 12 Hour Mountain Bike races. I shouldn’t have any problem. I am leaving [...]
Started the day by skipping my workout. Had planned to do an interval session on the trainer at 4:30 am. Unfortunately I stayed up until 11:30 and just couldn’t pull myself out of bed to workout. I will try and squeeze a workout in tonight.
Breakfast today was a Clif Bar. I [...]
I finally have a goal in mind. Since I messed up and have done virtually nothing towards training and have gained about 30 pounds since July of ‘07 I need to stop. My goal now is to ride for a personal best in the 6 hours of Ithaca on July 19th. This [...]
First let me start with a summary of 2007
Mountain: 1157.66 miles - 117:14:03 - Average Speed 9.9 mph (About 25 miles is missing because of GPS malfunctions)
Road: 132.18 miles - 7:16:15 - Average Speed 18.2 mph
Trainer: 648.52 miles - 43:35:45 - Average Speed 16.2 mph
Total: 1938.36 miles - 168:06:04 - Average Speed 11.8 mph
All [...]
I have talked about starting over many times. In many ways 2008 will be a starting over year. I have managed in the last 5 months to put back on all the weight I lost 3 years ago. I suspect when I weigh in tomorrow at the gym, I will be up [...]
I have had a lot of great ideas for writing lately, but I have not actually put those thoughts on paper. I had a brilliant post about the abuse of power of 41 U. S. Senators attempting to interfere in the business of a private citizen. Unfortunately that never made it out of [...]
