For those that haven’t noticed from my posts elsewhere, I’ve at least partially split where I put up my blog posts. This will stay for family posts (and yes, we are really attempting to update it more consistently!) . The training and racing posts for me at least will be on another blog I started [...]
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The past several weeks (actually closer to 6-8weeks) I’ve been feeling pretty drained and been having a hard time waking up on time and getting the motivation for my workouts. I figured it was a bit of burnout, or maybe the stress of a new kid/bad economy/life at a start-up/financial scare due to deferred salary/slight [...] Not that I was worried that it isn’t – if nothing else, my waist has shrunk, my resting pulse is lower and I feel overall a lot healthier; it is nice seeing other payoffs due to training, especially performance results. The performance results have definitely come in the last couple days – last Sunday [...] Earlier today, I went out and completed the longest run I have yet – ~9.3miles (I hit stop rather than lap when I turned around). As I was finishing my run, I decided that it was time to step up and actually take the challenges that I’ve been talking about for a while now. Later [...] These are the totals that I have logged with my Garmin from training. Most of the “fun” bike rides, walks, hikes, etc with the family are not included. More than half of my commutes were not recorded either. Hours training: 508 Not too shabby for [...] This weekend I finally got the knobby tires on my cyclocross (aka CX) bike and hit a good CX course. For those not familiar with a CX course or cyclocross racing in general – think of it as racing on a road bike with knobby tires sort of like mtn bike tires, only narrower, [...] |
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