If you’re anything like me, I like knowing where I stand with my training. It is nice to gauge my overall fitness level at various points during the year and determine what to expect from a given race. Bart Yasso has his “Yasso 800s“, a company called Quantitative has a running calculator (and even one [...]
Thanksgiving is upon us. Time for feasting and gathering together with family, but it is no reason to let your normal workout go out the window. For over 8 years in a row and sporadically before that I have been participating in a 5 mile running race called the Miamisburg Turkey Trot. It is a [...]
Posted in fitness on July 6, 2010
Tiff and I have been competing in triathlons on a significant basis for almost 3 years now (Tiff a bit longer), and we have gotten pretty good at gathering everything up, packing and getting off to races. If you’re like me, knowing what I absolutely have to have (bare minimum to toe the line on [...]
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Posted in cycling, fitness, Technology on April 14, 2010
Every cyclist knows the energy sucking, mentally torturing power of a headwind. The last two nights I have ridden our local bike trail and fought a headwind on my return journey…oh, and i was pulling the bike trailer [read: parachute] with Cora. Tonight, however, I should get some reprieve as it is group cycling night [...]
