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Body Maintenance

Getting older isn’t my favorite thing. I don’t notice it when I am in the moment, but when I sit back and think about it, the body seems to respond a little bit slower each year. Personally, just getting up after sitting for too long hurts sometimes. Yes, I grunt openly when I stand upContinue reading “Body Maintenance”

Sometimes you eat the bear…

..and sometimes the bear eats you. As they say, it can’t always go your way and the last week has been a bit slow on the workout front. It started on Thanksgiving morning with the annual 5k Turkey Trot. Well, I ran the course. Alone. In the rain. I was determined though to use someContinue reading “Sometimes you eat the bear…”

Make the Time

There are alot if people who will tell you they don’t have the time to workout. They are too busy to invest in themselves or their own happiness. These are the same people who will sit down in front of the TV for hours at a time day after day, idle and zoned out. TheContinue reading “Make the Time”

180 BPM

Music is one of the most effective motivation tools I have. I will build full playlists for specific races or training blocks. For the last mile I often shuffle down to a key motivator song. We all do it. As my son says, “that song gives me energy”. The hard thing has always been findingContinue reading “180 BPM”

Time Check

Have you ever been impatient? Yeah, me too. After missing last weeks track session due to horrendous weather (35 degrees and raining buckets) I thought a one mile time trial would be fun and a good check in on where I am currently. The coach agreed, and so we setup Sunday to go for it.Continue reading “Time Check”

(Pain) Endurance

Endurance athletes are a special breed of people. We do things that most people can’t fathom, and we come out with a smile. We torture ourselves day in and day out. So it is fair to say that for some endurance is not just being able to make your muscles move for a period ofContinue reading “(Pain) Endurance”

There Is Always An Excuse

The last few weeks have been tough. Work is tough, the kids are busy with full time school (remember that?), there are projects going on, and finding daylight to train in is tricky. To me this is all part of the game though. Triathlon or really any time consuming hobby is not just about puttingContinue reading “There Is Always An Excuse”

Halfway There

The weeks continue to roll by and so do the track workouts. The tricky thing with track workouts at the moment though is schools are back in session. That means practices, games, fans etc. all milling around or watching from the bleachers. As confident as I may be, I am NOT going to be runningContinue reading “Halfway There”

Back in Lake Placid

With the kids in remote learning or hybrid or whatever we are calling it these days, one benefit is being able to escape for long weekends more often. So we packed up the crew and headed up to Training Camp North for a few days. The weather has been perfect for those that like itContinue reading “Back in Lake Placid”

What The Heart Wants

I have talked about heart rate zones a bit in the past so I won’t go into a gory description of them right now, but I would like to touch upon what your heart rate might be telling you. Before I do that though, if you don’t have a heart rate monitor, please get one.Continue reading “What The Heart Wants”