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. …

So tonight was the first day of the Endurance Nation outseason training plan.  I did it with Mary, Matt, Adrienne, and Chris.  I think we all enjoyed it alot; Chris is a monster he put down something like 315 watts.  The picture above describes it perfectly – train wreck.  I did 2×20 minutes on 2 minutes rest to …

After 10 minutes of clicking refresh and attempting to login to active to register for Ironman Florida – I met with sucess.  I’m in!

Here’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 …

This 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 …

I 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!

What 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 …

I almost feel this is a waste of a supreme title such as this on a post this time of year, but it is appropriate.  This is also a blatant rip off from Jeff Keils Blog.  Anyways.

Yesterday I mentioned a movie reminded me of the need for proper planning.  Every season I have attempted to make …