Last week was somewhat of a respite from fitness goals. After the final race of the Progress Series, weather and buildup called for a more relaxed approach. So this week's fitness post will look at the Progress Series, and do a bit of retrospective on the series as a whole. The series garnered me 5 … Continue reading Fitness Update: Progress Series Recap
Sunday was the final race of the Northland Progress Series sponsored by The Running Well Store. Perhaps next week I will do a post on the series as a whole, if something else doesn't come up of more topical interest. Today, however, I am going to concentrate on this week, and specifically the half marathon. … Continue reading Fitness Update: Northland Half and 5K
This week I want to address the question of overdoing it? How does one know if one is overdoing it? And what does it mean to overdo it? This week I swam 2000 yards, ran 17 miles and biked 120 miles, so it isn't the total amounts of things I am talking about, but specific … Continue reading Fitness Update: Overdoing It
Okay, this week I finally got back to the pool. I swam Monday-Wednesday-Friday and ran Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday. My FitBit Flex 2 did not track the swimming. I was certain I had set it for swimming when I got it, but when I looked up a manual online, it only mentioned the word swim once, and that … Continue reading Fitness Update: Swimming and tracking thereof
This week I intended to swim, but when I went down to my bicycle on Tuesday morning, intending to swim, the tire was flat. No problem, just pull out the pump and see if it holds air. Except when I attached the pump the nozzle attachment came off. So no way to fix the tire. … Continue reading Fitness Update: Bicycle and sans Bicycle
I have been talking in prior blogs about how my pace of running miles for the year has started out slow for the year. But I didn't expect for that tempo to remain the same. This past week is a proof of that. From running less than 10 miles a week most weeks, last week … Continue reading Fitness Update: Half-Marathon Prep
This week I am going to do some day-to-day entries showing how I worked out after my 10K race: Monday -- Barely made my 10,000 steps today. Was intending to get up and go to the pool for the first time in months, but the cold and wind deterred me, so instead I biked into … Continue reading Fitness Update: Weekly Log
This week was the build-up to the Sham Rock and Run on Sunday. I started with 5K run on Monday along the streets around my house. I got a 6.5 mph pace, which is the base I felt I needed for the pace I wanted -- the pace I want to make for the half-marathon. … Continue reading Fitness Update: 1st place (of a kind …)
This past week was a recovery from the cold/cough week. I didn't do much of anything until Wednesday of last week, and then it was just a bike trip to work and back. But by Friday I was ready for a short run, and by Saturday I was ready to try my weekly long run. … Continue reading Fitness Update: wind/breath
In my previous fitness updated I discussed the workup schedule I have for the upcoming 10K and half-marathon races. In today's post I am going to mention a factor that goofs up the schedule: sickness. In this past week I developed a cough that started on Wednesday, got worse on Thursday, seemed a little better … Continue reading Fitness Update: Sickness interruptus
At The Rainbow 