I believe I’m reaping the benefits of the training I’ve been doing. Being more consistent in my workouts (I have been blessed by better weather recently than I’ve had in a long long time) and following a program that seems to be working, I’m dropping pounds again for the first time in a long time–down […]
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 […]
I’m cautiously optimistic. I’m having some of the best training runs I’ve ever had and I feel pretty darned fine, but I am having the occasional bit of knee pain in both knees and my back, while better than when I started this current training program, still hurts and is stiff from time to time. […]
I’m feeling winded, but not really sore. I really believe this training program I’m currently on for running–which, while my secondary athletic endeavor, has taken a front seat due to the fact that I have three running events coming up within the next seven weeks–is working. That fascinates me, because I’ve been such a struggling […]
I haven’t discussed it much at all but one of the big events of the year for me is the Great Aloha Run. It’s one of the largest athletic events of the year in Hawai’i, and while it’s not up there in prestige or challenge with the Honolulu Marathon, it’s a great time for many […]
As I continue to experiment with heart rate training (my current bit of reading is the Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot), I am finding that my initial reaction to training with the monitor is common–that I feel like I’m going too slowly when I do my “easy” days. What I’ve noticed, three weeks […]
I’m writing this on Thursday night–my triple workout day. Since I’m more focused now than I’ve been in awhile, it was pretty successful: four miles of running in the morning, an hour on the bike, and a half hour of swimming. My heart rate training seems to be working out although I continue to find […]
I’ve had a few heart rate monitors over the years; unfortunately they’ve tended to die on me after a year or so of use. I just got a new one from Nashbar for pretty cheap, so I’m using it to help in my training again. What is a heart rate monitor? Simply, it’s a way […]
Since the century is now done (and my bike is without a functional rear tube, albeit temporarily), I’m going to switch my workout emphasis from cycling to running for a bit. Why, especially considering how much I hate running? I have a running event in December (a 5k) and another in February (the Great Aloha […]