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Not that I was really gone that long, but I took a break from most things computer (other that minimal work) for a week as well. And now… I’m back! Highlights of the holiday seasion included taking Mike home to my parents (he’d met my dad and stepmom before, but this was his first time…
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This is almost becoming just weekly updates. I think with the boy around I’m just spending less “free time” at the computer, and more of it on the bike or in good company. Which is just fine with me. Thursday night was a pretty bad run, and I was just feeling tight and sore and…
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Yesterday I worked from home to take care of tires and such for my car, and had noticed a few days ago a few browned bananas on the fridge. Ok, so this isn’t the purely training part of this post yet, but it was yummy! I baked them into a yummy healthy banana bread! I…
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Because it is just a different kind of tough. First there is the motivation tough — the whole family is around, and the kitchen smells great, and you get to put on those damn running clothes and go off and sweat. I spent a few of the days over the break out near Tucson at…
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Yup, Southern CA is having a bit of a heat wave and it’s about 84F now. I never would have thought that the hardest part of my afternoon 4.5 mile run in MID NOVEMBER would be the heat! I had to find a few water fountains along it, which in a way was good since…
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Back on the bike this weekend for a long ride, as well as a few shorter ones. On Saturday I rode out to Mike’s place, almost sliding on some ice on my way there. Ice? Yes, ice. In Southern CA. You see, it was a bit cooler this weekend. So from the time someone empty…
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It felt good to be running… really good. I was comfortable, heart rate was doing well, and I was moving fluid. I passed a number of people, just keeping a smooth and easy pace averaging about 10:30 min/mile. There were 3 loops, and at the finish of the first I was feeling like I was…
Continue reading Vineman marathon and finish (aka because an Ironman isn’t painful enough)
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Again a post where the title probably makes me laugh more than anyone. Oh well… it is numbers, and they will probably be numbing to minds other than mine. In my worries of Vineman, I took a comparative look at the training the 4 months before IMAZ and the training these last 4 months. IMAZ…
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I typed the title, and then read it not as “thoughts about tapering” but that my thoughts themselves are tapering off. I figured it works, given how sucky I have been about maintaining my online personality lately. Sorry, I’ll be back more reliably someday. However, it is taper time. And I’m finding it hard to…
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I haven’t been blogging, and have only ran about 2 miles this month. I have swam… 3ish times. But I’ve been on the bike! And that is going really really well! I did a test ride of the main loop for Vineman, and it went great… I parked at the school where it ends, rode…