Starting again. Again.
Seems like this is where I always up: apologizing for not keeping up with this blog. Acknowledging that I fell off the writing wagon. Yea, well… this probably won’t be the last time, I s’pose, …
Category: training
Groovin’
Why are things so difficult sometimes? I was just telling a friend about how it is when you get in a good groove: everything’s easy, the decisions are like second nature. It’s as though your …
By the wayside
A triathlete friend of mine recently pulled me aside and asked me, point blank: “so, are you even a triathlete anymore? Or have you become a complete wuss and given up on the sport?” Well, …
Lofty?
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, I’m kind of a goal-oriented person (can I be nominated for Understatement of the Year yet?). I NEED something out there to work towards. Because otherwise? Yea, I don’t …
Dunkless dunking
Just a short update on my previous post about my slightly-crazy idea of having my body fat tested in a dunk tank: It didn’t happen. Yup – trainer dude had the stomach flu and was …
Getting ready for the dunk
If y’all remember back to April 2009 (really? does anyone? I know I barely do…) I had a pretty momentous adventure: I went and got myself dunked in a tank to measure my body fat …
Hal made me do it
So, after a month or so of just doing easy base miles, I’m now 3 weeks deep into Hal Higdon‘s advanced half marathon plan. You read that right: the advanced plan. Now, as I’ve said …
Impossible?
In the midst of my internet meanderings, I came across a daily motivational quote on potential, and in the middle of it were these two sentences: “Think of all the things, once considered to be …
To eat or not to eat…
… that — as always — is the question. Well, at least that’s always the question running through MY head at least. I wasn’t one of those chosen few blessed with a metabolism that allows …
There’s something I forgot to mention…
. ____________________________________ Um, yea. Last fall? I registered myself for Ironman Wisconsin. Kind of on a whim. More of a “just on the weird offchance that I decide I want to do it, then I’ll have that …