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Yup. Thirty-three. That is me age. Arrrrrrrr.
Thomas Magnum – you know, Magnum P.I. – would head out on his surf ski in celebration of his birthday. It was his day alone. It was how he celebrated his life. I get it.
My greatest gift to [...]
Categories: Road Riding
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Tags: Road Riding, Training
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I am capping my night with some wine and a piece of 86% dark cacao chocolate. Yum. I deserve this. I earned it. After all, I have been on the wagon for over a week.
I started road riding to get back into cycling shape. The following is my progress:
March 6 [...]
Categories: Road Riding
| Tags: Road Riding, Training
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I follow the European school of thought that the week begins on Monday. Not only is my email program set up to follow this, but so is my workout log. Monday through Sunday counts as one week. With that said, let’s take a look at my workout log since the first of [...]
Categories: Cross Training
| Tags: Training, Training Log Review
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When I was a runner of sorts, I read everything I could about training. I raced several 5Ks, the Crim, and a couple of marathons. I knew my stuff. A lot of the training concepts I learned from running translate into the mountain biking.
I have four years experience with mountain biking, three [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Iceman Cometh, Mountain Biking, Training
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With the most recent snow melt, and temperatures reaching the 60s in the Keweenaw, cyclists have already gathered together to ride the road. I just thought about riding, but I fully intend to begin my spring training this coming weekend.
Tomorrow and Wednesday, I am going to hit the pavement for a couple of [...]
Categories: Cycling
| Tags: Road Riding, Spring, Training
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I was very disappointed when I looked at my training log for the year. I thought that I had ridden significantly less this year than last. Then I realized that I recorded my 1997 mountain biking distances in kilometers. The reason for this was that I did not own a bike computer, [...]
Categories: Cross Training
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With the New Year come transitions. People make resolutions, clean things out, throw things away, and embark on new and lofty goals while I simply switch to a new training log. I created an Excel spreadsheet back in 2007 to track my exercise hours and distances. In 2008, it evolved to simply [...]
Categories: Cross Training
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December. The year has yet to end and the winter has barely started. Yes, I know many of us have had snow since mid-November, but that doesn’t change the fact that we are still in the early stages of winter. Why, then, am I not surprised to find people asking about 2009 [...]
Categories: Motivation
| Tags: Cross Training, Motivation, Training, Winter
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In March, I wrote about my goals for 2008. I have shown some definite improvements, and have failed miserably in an area that is most important to me. The point of today’s post is to review those goals, assess my strengths and weaknesses, and make a new plan for the fall and winter.
Podium [...]
Categories: Cycling
| Tags: Climbing, Commuting, Racing, Training, Weight Loss, Weight Training, Winter
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Beer . . . or ride? Hm . . . well, I could sneak a ride in tomorrow even though I’m on call. I’ve done it several times before. I used to do it all the time when I worked full time and fifty percent of my free time really wasn’t free [...]
Categories: Racing
| Tags: Beer, Racing, Training, Weight Loss
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