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Balance and Running

Great article over at Triathlete Mag.

Balance is important when running, this article gives some background and some tips. Good reading.

Recent Workouts from TrainingPeaks.com

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Nutrition Research has Begun

I’ve found that in the mornings during my 1.5hr-ish swims, that my stomach is most sensitive to what I’ve put in it recently. Recently may be the night before if I ate late or a lot, or may just be whatever I ate before hopping in the pool, but something about being horizontal and rocking back and forth for 90ish minutes puts my nutrition choices to the test.

I’ve decided to use this situation as a vehicle for testing race and training nutrition. Seems logical right: if you’re frequently in conditions that challenge your gut, use those conditions to test substances that you may or may not tolerate well on race day.

I’ve started a page to track my research and happily share it with you in the hopes that you may find it useful too. The page is here. Bookmark it and revisit it often as I’ll just be updating it as I go without a lot of fanfare.

Week In Review

TriumphTriathlon.com today asks the question:

How has triathlon and being a triathlete helped your perform under pressure in your life?

For me, this is a challenging question, given that I’m new to triathlon but very experienced in high pressure life. I’ve been in software development for almost 30 years, and I’m a technical, cave, and rebreather scuba diver. Pressure, crisis management and keeping a level-head when the sky is falling are characteristics that I’ve lived with and thrived on for decades.

For me, triathlon is an extension of the journey that I started on in August of 2009. Then I was 250+ lbs. My hips hurt, my knees hurt, I had no energy, stairs would wind me, driving was preferable to walking – even short distances. I looked in the mirror one day and, facing my 42nd birthday in a few weeks, decided I really didn’t like what I saw, that it was only going to get harder to fix and set my mind and spirit to rehabilitating my life.

Sold the car, and bought a more serious bike (no more slow pedal pusher), started rock-climbing again. Climbing led me back to the gym to become a stronger climber. The gym led me to the pool to improve my cardio. The cycling, past running, and swimming led me to triathlon. It just seems like the next logical evolutionary step.

For me, I’m bringing my life, my disciplined mind and spirit, to triathlon. I hope, and expect, triathlon to reinforce and build upon those existing life skills.

Recent workouts via TrainingPeaks.com

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Only a Real Manβ„’ can wear a kilt!

Vanessa over at VanessaRunshas received 2 sport kilts from SportKilt.com. One girls, (that she’s keeping) and a boys model that she’s raffling off.

I have a kilt, but it’s a formal heavy non-sport model that mysteriously had a hole punched in it when we moved 6 years ago (and I’ve never had repaired). I was looking forward to running the the Toronto St. Paddy’s run, but unfortunately I’m going to be in Atlanata at Pycon2011 that weekend. Luckily, I discovered and signed up for a 10k St Paddy’s run in Atlanta. It’s a fundraiser for the Jr. League of America (sounds like an organization for young comic book heroes). They even have prizes for kilt wearing participants. Now there’s no way I could wear the formal kilt, but a sport kilt? Sure, I’d do that!

Here’s hoping I win πŸ™‚

Week In Review

1st Ride/Run Brick

Did my 1st ride/run “brick” today. Yea, not really a brick, more a transition since I only did 1 bike, 1 run and didn’t cycle back… but anyhow…

Rode on the magtrainer for an hour this morning, then as quickly as I could, changed into running clothes, stuffed my work clothes and a towel into a napsack and ran 5k to work. (Direct is only about 2k so took an intentionally indirect route πŸ˜‰ .)

Wow! I now understand what people say about the transition leg leaden-ness. The 1st km of my run my legs felt all gimpy, like they didn’t know how to respond to my brain anymore.

Pushed through and found myself gliding along. The air was cold this morning and it, combined with my cold, made breathing a little difficult, but all good.

Got to the office, had some food and a shower and now sipping some coffee and pushing into the day.

Hurray for me! πŸ˜‰ LOL

Week In Review