If fitness is a ladder, the last few weeks I’ve been going down. The combination of a few days of travel, some social obligations, an unexpected weekend work day, and a week of being on call really contributed to this. But the person responsible is still the guy in the mirror. What’s important right now […]
I’m not perfect, but I’m trying to be closer to it. It’s a tough road and one of the reasons why I tell people who are on diets to not be too hard on themselves. We’re all our worst critics. I wish I spent more time walking away from potato chips at work than I […]
One of the things that comes through my mind regularly is that I have to get my workout for the day or week done–I just have to. I guess this is called discipline, which I’ve written about before. There’s no difference in my mind between a disciplined and undisciplined workout–it’s just that I get it […]
There are many, many ways to fall off the workout and diet wagon. For me, traveling was one of them. I’m not much for traveling. I don’t like flying–I believe coach class was meant for size four women, and I’m definitely not a size four woman. And I’m certainly not one for cold, and for […]
I need to do the little things. At this point that means bicycle maintenance. I badly need to replace my seatpost, headset, cassette, and wheels, as well as rewrap my handlebars and install my cyclometer, and even though I own the things to get lots of these done–and the rest are really not all that […]
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 […]
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 […]
While Tweeting up with some of the local folks this weekend, one of them said they wanted to donate to my Livestrong Challenge effort but didn’t really understand it. So I figured I’d blog about it to try to give them a better idea of what I’m doing. Let’s see how this works in the […]
I’m committed now. I’m definitely going to Philadelphia for the Livestrong Challenge, and I’ll be doing both the 10K run (which, quite frankly, I’m not worried about) and the century (which, quite frankly, I am worried about). And as I said the other day, I have been just blown away by the generosity of the […]
This is a cross post with my other blog, Uncommon Cents: As those of you who read Uncommon Cents know well, I’m frugal; for those of you who read Athletic Diabetic know well, I’m trying hard to keep my weight down, my blood sugar down, and my conditioning up. So one of the intersections of […]