One of my Twitter buddies @Lavagal has not only been inspiring those of us who follow her for months and months with her early morning exercise regimen, recently suffered an injury to her Achilles tendon which will keep her out of action for months. She had already registered for some upcoming runs and rides and […]
I feel like I blew it but I’m not really sure what happened. As I detailed yesterday, I put in a disappointing performance in the Great Aloha Run after running sub 12 minute miles in races since December. I’m still not really sure what happened. While many others have given their opinions on the overly […]
One of the two largest running events in Hawai’i (along with the Honolulu Marathon) is the Great Aloha Run. Over 20,000 runners, walkers, and stroller companions enter this event every year–this is the third straight year I’ve done the event, and given my success training (at least up until my Oakland trip) and my times […]
The weather is starting to turn, and it’s not helping me out. While it didn’t rain hard by any means today, it was enough to screw up the traffic, which screwed up my time schedule, and cost me a bike ride. In addition, while running in mid day has been a lot better on the […]
I left way too early on Wednesday morning for Oakland (7:15 am) which meant I needed to be at Honolulu Airport about 5 am! So much for a Wednesday morning workout–or anything resembling it until that evening until at the fitness center at the hotel. They had treadmills, weights, elipticals, and stationary bikes. I haven’t […]
A few days ago, before I left for Oakland on business, I blogged about how I had All the Makings of a Less Than Stellar Race going on. Turns out I was correct. My race on Sunday was less than stellar. That said, it wasn’t awful. I must keep my eyes on the two most […]
My schedule on weekends–particularly on Sundays–is killing me, but I think it’s worth it. For whatever reason I seem to keep pushing my “long” ride on Saturdays–three hours right now–to Sunday, which is in addition to my “long” run of ten miles, over two hours at the slow, easy pace I’ve set myself up for. […]
I’m out of town starting on Wednesday morning–going to Oakland for work–then back on Saturday afternoon. I’m hoping this doesn’t disrupt my training schedule (much) since there’s a “fitness center” (not a “gym”, I guess) in the hotel we’re staying at, and my traveling partner is my running partner from work. So I’ll be out […]
In reviewing Heart Rate Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot, author John L. Parker, Jr. sums up its big contribution to a training program pretty succinctly on page seven: “Alternate hard days with easy days”. He also calls this “The General All-Purpose Training Principle That Everyone Agrees With But Nobody Follows”. I’m trying to do […]
I’m crunching for time, but making it happen. Currently my workout schedule is down to “only” eight workouts a week–four runs, four rides–but they’re taking up a bunch of time since I’m trying to do longer and longer runs on Sundays, up to ten miles this week. Going slowly as my heart rate training is […]