Well, I definitely need to get better at writing these posts in a more timely manner! But the good news is I've not been overly slackerish.
Firstly! New bike! YAY! Finally after lots of searching and waiting and such. I ended up with a 63cm Cannondale Six Carbon 1 With upgraded crankset from the FSA to Dura Ace, to get to 180mm cranks. I will post pictures shortly!
Saturday I went with a friend and road the Puddle for the Ducks charity ride, of course I had to try out my new bike. We went out and did 37 miles. It was pretty good except for the last 7 or so miles. Between massive headwinds and, my complete lack of shape, it was pretty brutal on me out there. But the first 15 miles were awesome. We casually cruised around at 19.5 mph. I must say, new bike is yummy goodness for the road! She's definitely a keeper!
Then this morning, I went for a nice 3.5 mile run with another friend and took a nice little spill on the way out. But got up, dusted off and had a decent run. Slow but it was cold in the wind and so hard to move fluidly.
I did use the T6c for both of these rides, but still have to really look over the data to see if anything exciting happened. I'm getting more and more familiar with it, so hopefully soon I will know what I'm doing and be able to use it to train with properly rather than just collecting the data!
Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Where have I been??
Yeah, MIA for a couple of weeks. I've been working out a bit, except last week. Last week was a bust due to insomnia. And this week didn't start much better since I missed out on swimming yesterday.
But I did run today. It felt like a pretty crappy run, very slow and painful. I ended up with blisters on my feet due to my socks being end of life and all stretched out and bunching on me now.
But once I got home, I looked at the stats of the run, and was, shocked.
Using my T6c, I have it auto lap every mile, and here are my stats:
Even though the numbers say it was a good run, I still feel like it was a bad one. But at least I got out there and did it! That is the first step to improvement!
Some other interesting tidbits:
But I did run today. It felt like a pretty crappy run, very slow and painful. I ended up with blisters on my feet due to my socks being end of life and all stretched out and bunching on me now.
But once I got home, I looked at the stats of the run, and was, shocked.
Using my T6c, I have it auto lap every mile, and here are my stats:
- 8:51 min/mile
- 8:19 min/mile
- 9:18 min/mile
- 5:19 min/.54 mile
Even though the numbers say it was a good run, I still feel like it was a bad one. But at least I got out there and did it! That is the first step to improvement!
Some other interesting tidbits:
- Average Speed: 6.7 mph
- Max Speed: 20.2 mph
- Max Heart Rate: 190
- Average Heart Rate: 144
- Calories burned: 555
- Total time: 31:47
- Total distance: 3.5356 miles.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Boot Camp and Run
Well, I went out and did my boot camp tonight. It was good, we did a lot of core and leg workout today, squats and lunges, crunches and bridges and pushups oh my!
While doing the pushups and bridges I noticed that my bad shoulder felt different tonight. It didn't really hurt more or less. It didn't really feel wrong or right. It just felt different. After a couple of the exercises I started to feel my shoulder to see why it felt so different. Turns out, I have muscle up there now. That's why it feels different. Seems to be helping things a bit. So I need to continue with this and try to continue to rebuild the muscle up there to get stability there again. Looking good!
After boot camp, a friend and I headed out and went for a run (since I didn't get up and run this morning [bad Steve!]) up and down the TC Jester trail a bit. Was good, although my legs were pretty trashed from the working out, so the run/walk was about 45 minutes. 3/4 of the distance was ran, the rest was walking so it wasn't too bad.
So it was a good day working out after a rough start and will be continuing to be good from here on out.
No Excuses!
While doing the pushups and bridges I noticed that my bad shoulder felt different tonight. It didn't really hurt more or less. It didn't really feel wrong or right. It just felt different. After a couple of the exercises I started to feel my shoulder to see why it felt so different. Turns out, I have muscle up there now. That's why it feels different. Seems to be helping things a bit. So I need to continue with this and try to continue to rebuild the muscle up there to get stability there again. Looking good!
After boot camp, a friend and I headed out and went for a run (since I didn't get up and run this morning [bad Steve!]) up and down the TC Jester trail a bit. Was good, although my legs were pretty trashed from the working out, so the run/walk was about 45 minutes. 3/4 of the distance was ran, the rest was walking so it wasn't too bad.
So it was a good day working out after a rough start and will be continuing to be good from here on out.
No Excuses!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Down and Out and Lazy
Well, I've not been blogging, I haven't not been doing anything, I just have been a bit lazy on blogging lately. Kind of busy.
But since my last entry, I've done a navigation race with a friend that I had to drop out because I hurt my leg some how in it. Then I also started up boot camp and did some running and biking and got really sick and am still working on getting over the sick. But I'm at about 90% better now.
This coming week training starts up with Swimming and more boot camp and running.
I'm still in need of a road bike, I've been a bit lazy and slackerish on getting on that. Maybe tomorrow I will get out there and see if I can find one.
So there it is, quick up date, I've not been completely lazy, but not doing as much as I should be doing... But it's getting ramped up come Monday morning!
But since my last entry, I've done a navigation race with a friend that I had to drop out because I hurt my leg some how in it. Then I also started up boot camp and did some running and biking and got really sick and am still working on getting over the sick. But I'm at about 90% better now.
This coming week training starts up with Swimming and more boot camp and running.
I'm still in need of a road bike, I've been a bit lazy and slackerish on getting on that. Maybe tomorrow I will get out there and see if I can find one.
So there it is, quick up date, I've not been completely lazy, but not doing as much as I should be doing... But it's getting ramped up come Monday morning!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Double Lake
Today was a great ride out at Double Lake. I have no idea how far or anything I went as my GPS didn't work very well out there... I'm still learning how to make that sucker go.
But the weather was perfect and the trails were happy!
The only problem is I'm still sore and tired from the Boot Camp and rock climbing that I did Monday and Tuesday. So I decided to only do one lap and call it quits since I do have a lot of things to do this weekend and want to make sure I get it all done.
But the weather was perfect and the trails were happy!
The only problem is I'm still sore and tired from the Boot Camp and rock climbing that I did Monday and Tuesday. So I decided to only do one lap and call it quits since I do have a lot of things to do this weekend and want to make sure I get it all done.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Rock Climbing!
So, I'm still in all kinds of pain from last nights boot camp. So that kind of made rock climbing interesting tonight.
I lacked flexibility, strength and movement so making some climbs I've done previously fairly easily, I struggled hard tonight. But it's good, muscle fatigue. I will take tomorrow mostly off and recover and recoup and get ready for some biking on Thursday.
It was great to be climbing and my friend I was with was quite helpful in pushing me (I'm blaming you for the extra pain I feel tomorrow!) And it was great to see some people at the TRG that I've not seen in a long time.
Great night indeed!
I lacked flexibility, strength and movement so making some climbs I've done previously fairly easily, I struggled hard tonight. But it's good, muscle fatigue. I will take tomorrow mostly off and recover and recoup and get ready for some biking on Thursday.
It was great to be climbing and my friend I was with was quite helpful in pushing me (I'm blaming you for the extra pain I feel tomorrow!) And it was great to see some people at the TRG that I've not seen in a long time.
Great night indeed!
Boot Camp
Last week while running with a friend we ran into the instructor of a boot camp session at Memorial Park. We got to talking and he invited us to come join one night, so we decided to do it the next Monday (last night.)
We got there early to do a nice easy warm up run before hand. That went well, we ran the purple loop nice and easy got warmed up. When we got back, the instructor was there setting up. Noticed right off the bat, tires to run with. Sweet! It's gonna be painful!
We meet the other participants of the session and then we start off with some stretches. After a couple minutes of that, we head straight for the tires, we had to pull the tires about 35-40 years, and swap out with the next person in line at the end. We did that about 5-6 times. Then we moved to carrying a bag of sand, doing the same thing, run the 35-40 yards and pass it off to the next person in line. This is great I thought, good speed work and muscular endurance building. I can handle this quite well.
After that we did sprints to each of the cones he had lined up alone the route, and he would holler out something we had to do. Jumping jacks, planks, knee highs, gorilla jumps, and something else I can't remember, we would then shuffle back side ways to the beginning and do it all over again, two more times. It was during this that I realized that my shoulder still need work. I couldn't hold the plank on my left side because it was bothering my shoulder. I need to work on it, rehab the muscle structure and get it strong again.
Next was arm work outs. The instructor handed out pieces of PVC pipe that was filled with something to us all. Then we started doing various exercises like military presses, front and back, 45 degree presses, bench press, tricep raises. All kinds of misery after the first minute of them. Talk about working to muscle fatigue! My shoulder also didn't like too many of these, but I struggled through them.
Then we moved to push ups which I could not do at all. Between the trashing the arms just took and my bum shoulder, I couldn't support myself to do pushups, so I did planks instead. Then all kinds of ab crunches, bicycles, scissors, etc. I was totally feeling it before we were done!
And this morning, I have a huge knot in my back from the work out and all my limbs and core are extremely sore. P90X has nothing on this boot camp stuff.
If I can rehab my shoulder up, I may think about doing boot camp over P90X! And if I can muster up the money to do it. It was a great workout and the instructor was awesome. Very military like, but also very attentive to make sure everyone was OK and not doing something that would do more harm than good.
And for now, I sit on the heating pad trying to fix my back and get ready for tonight's workout...
We got there early to do a nice easy warm up run before hand. That went well, we ran the purple loop nice and easy got warmed up. When we got back, the instructor was there setting up. Noticed right off the bat, tires to run with. Sweet! It's gonna be painful!
We meet the other participants of the session and then we start off with some stretches. After a couple minutes of that, we head straight for the tires, we had to pull the tires about 35-40 years, and swap out with the next person in line at the end. We did that about 5-6 times. Then we moved to carrying a bag of sand, doing the same thing, run the 35-40 yards and pass it off to the next person in line. This is great I thought, good speed work and muscular endurance building. I can handle this quite well.
After that we did sprints to each of the cones he had lined up alone the route, and he would holler out something we had to do. Jumping jacks, planks, knee highs, gorilla jumps, and something else I can't remember, we would then shuffle back side ways to the beginning and do it all over again, two more times. It was during this that I realized that my shoulder still need work. I couldn't hold the plank on my left side because it was bothering my shoulder. I need to work on it, rehab the muscle structure and get it strong again.
Next was arm work outs. The instructor handed out pieces of PVC pipe that was filled with something to us all. Then we started doing various exercises like military presses, front and back, 45 degree presses, bench press, tricep raises. All kinds of misery after the first minute of them. Talk about working to muscle fatigue! My shoulder also didn't like too many of these, but I struggled through them.
Then we moved to push ups which I could not do at all. Between the trashing the arms just took and my bum shoulder, I couldn't support myself to do pushups, so I did planks instead. Then all kinds of ab crunches, bicycles, scissors, etc. I was totally feeling it before we were done!
And this morning, I have a huge knot in my back from the work out and all my limbs and core are extremely sore. P90X has nothing on this boot camp stuff.
If I can rehab my shoulder up, I may think about doing boot camp over P90X! And if I can muster up the money to do it. It was a great workout and the instructor was awesome. Very military like, but also very attentive to make sure everyone was OK and not doing something that would do more harm than good.
And for now, I sit on the heating pad trying to fix my back and get ready for tonight's workout...
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