- Lake Mills is the only sprint I have done that I particularly enjoy. I’m not sure what I like about it, but compared to say the Pewaukee Triathlon the distance and intensity don’t seem to make me as unhappy during the race. Since this aa short and sweet race I use this race as a bit of a speed workout, and as a fitness …
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I got down to Rockford early on Saturday to check out some of the course and to save myself the drive on Sunday. When Mary and I got there we were fairly impressed with the location of the event. The lake for the swim was nice, if not a bit weedy, but nice. Mary had to do her long bike ride on Saturday so …
Read More Well I’ve done both my bike baseline FTP test and Run test for the EN plan. Run wise I was 20:22 for a 5k, and 263 for the bike FTP.
That puts me down about 17% and 12% respectively from what I estimated myself to be at going into IMWI. My goal for the long run of this 16 weeks is to run a low 17 5k, and a 330+ FTP. …
Read MoreHere’s a blog post on Endurance Nation that is highly reccomended. Key take aways:
- Break your season into manageable chunks.
- Don’t expect to be able to focus for a REALLY long time.
- In November, you aren’t training for a race in September – you’re training to train for that race, or for other fun things before the …
Read MoreThis week I am in Chicago for a VMware training for work. I had intended to come down and do some running each day – unfortunately a cold/sinus infection caught up with me not long after getting here. So thus far I have not done much running.
The training class itself has been quite insightful and good for work, but …
Read MoreI added back the portion of my old site for race reports and links so as to not make google to mad.
As I fix the links in blogs and else where and set up healthy redirects I’ll banish them again!
Read MoreWhat are you thinking? Are you crazy? Black bikes have souls, lots of them, they sucked all the souls from ugly green, red, blue, and other clolr[sic] bikes. A black bike says don’t f*ck with this guy. It’s like having the worst of Satan and the best of Jesus in one bike. You suck the life from other rides and it goes …
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