I’m A Little More Doug Butabi Than Ricky Martin…

Last night’s Zone 1 swim training -
Total time: 00:23:45
Distance: 350m
RPE: 12-14
Positive experiences and valuable lessons: I had pre-programmed myself after last week’s less-than-satisfactory swim workout, feeding my subconscious affirmations and visualizations. This week it really paid off; from the time I stepped into the pool, I felt fantastic. Light. Powerful.

The First Sign You’ve Been Running Too Long Is When The Voices Start Popping Up In Your Head

Last night’s Zone 1 (50-60% of max HR) run session numbers -
From the Nike+ iPod:
Total distance: 3.08km
Time: 00:37:02
Pace: 11:57 min/km
Calories: 339
From my Polar HRM:
Total time in zone: 00:22:09
Average HR: 117
Max HR: 157
KCalories: 377 - 50% from fat (looks like the Polar and the Nike+ are pretty close to being synced up now)
Surprise of the [...]

Episode 17, Wherein Our Hero Ironhead Rediscovers His Buttocks…

Once again, we had a helluva weekend, and wound up delaying procrastinating lazing around deferring our bike workout until Monday evening. When we hit the gym around 8:45, we found to our delight that someone had actually fixed the recumbent bike, and Cin was now able to adjust the seat all the way forward so [...]

Better Late Than Never Update #1

Hopefully this isn’t a portent of things to come…I actually neglected to post my workouts for last Tuesday/Wednesday! Yep, the whole purpose of my keeping this blog and it completely skipped my mind. So here’s the reader’s digest version (since I don’t have my Polar on me, these aren’t totally accurate):
Wednesday Jan. 22, 2008
Distance: 2.75KM
Time [...]

I’m Sorry Ken, That’s A Chip Up The Nose…

I don’t normally log in and comment on how my day is going, but for some reason one of my incessantly bossy and fussy older co-workers this morning decided to ’shush’ me for talking in a slightly-louder than normal voice to one of my co-workers, and I need to get this off of my chest.
Considering [...]