Posted on February 24th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Bicycling, Running, Training |
While I love my running training schedule–alternating hard/short and easy/long days–and I’ve expanded it to be a similar schedule for my cycling, there’s no question that I don’t get faster unless I do intervals and hard efforts. And hard efforts mean pain.
It’s not fun, but it does help.
My endurance has always been my strong suit as far as events go. Which is how to finish centuries and limp through marathons. I don’t give up. But I’m not fast, and I never have been.
While I’ll never be a speed demon, it’s clear that if I want to be faster, I’m going to have to work at it. While I love the length of 50 mile rides and 10 mile runs, what’s going to count soon is the 3 mile run with speedwork and the 15 mile ride with intervals.
It’s going to hurt, but it’ll be the hurt I need to improve.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Bicycling, Diet, Social aspects, Training |
It’s a milestone entry, coming right at the time I decided to battle inertia and get serious again about training. I’ve already blogged about my failures in training starting with Oakland and the difficulty I had at the Great Aloha Run. I also have had some special occasions, including a baby shower and a friend […]
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Bicycling |
It took long enough and it was complicated by the PayPal debacle I blogged about on Uncommon Cents, but I finally got a bit of bike maintenance done–and once my new cassette comes (ordered, of course, via eBay), there’ll be even more. What have I done? Changed headset lockring: This bike came with an aluminum, […]
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Exercise, Personal, Social aspects |
I’m stiff and sore, but not from working out. In fact, working out is helping; it’s just the usual stress and strain of being a social worker that’s getting me this go around. It is many times one of the more difficult jobs in the world. In addition, between working two jobs, maintaining three blogs, […]
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Motivation, Organized events, Running, Social aspects |
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 […]
Posted on February 17th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Organized events, Personal, Running |
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 […]
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Organized events, Personal, Running |
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 […]
Posted on February 12th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Running, Social aspects |
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 […]
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Exercise, Social aspects |
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 […]
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Personal, Social aspects |
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 […]