Sounds like fun! As for me, after a long weekend out of town, on my butt either in the car or in the stadium, for the Crossfit Games East Regional in Hartford, a really heavy strength day on Monday, and a miserable Crossfit workout Tuesday morning, today I opted for a run, outside. It was hot and mu...

As in, "The goal was unrealistic and needed to be modified," or, "The time was not right and the goal needs to be postponed," or whatever. But that's different than saying "Anything is possible -- you just have to work for it." No matter how hard I try, I will never ru...

Happy taper everyone. I did the same 5km route as last week, with the exception of running on the edge of the canal where there was more shade as I had no sun screen. This time I had a watch, and functional shoe laces on my racing flats. There would be no stopping to tie my shoes and I'd have an acc...

How To Create Healthy Exercise Habits - askmen.com Back in 1991 Gabriele Oettingen, a professor of psychology at NYU, first discovered that people who fantasized about a positive outcome were less likely to achieve the desired outcome A lot of what we've discussed here and elsewhere, but nonetheles...

Feel better Holly. Triathlon eh Habs, very funny. As for me, I had Crossfit this morning, Olympic lifting this evening, what to do at noon? Why not go for a run in the chilly drizzle? 5km done. No calf issues!!! :D (fyi, for three weeks, every time I ran I'd get a painful knot in my right calf right...

10 minutes into my 30 minute run I did something to my right calf.

Massage book in an hour and a bit. Hopefully nothing serious. Grrrr

Treadmill running is boring. My key workouts are designed to keep me occupied for the duration, but my fitness isn't there yet. But for today's 30 minute snore-fest I decided to try a scaled version of the frog in the pot of water. I started at 5.5mph and inscreased by 0.2mph every 2 minutes. The pl...

Finally a 45 minute run in the books. 4.57 miles on the treadmill. So the pace isn't bugging me, after 20 minutes at 6:13/km, I upped it to 6:00/km, no difference, then I upped it to 5:45/km, still no difference. My foot went numb again, just before the 35 minute mark, this time. So I stopped for 2 ...

Now I'll be red-faced all morning. :? Badge of honour. ;) As for me, well at least that didn't suck. 30 minute at 6mph (6:13/km) for 3 miles. Kept the incline at 0% to help ensure success. Still, I was happy when it was over. I sped up a bit from 17:00 to 25:00 (6.2mph or 6:00/km). Then I setup my ...

I have no doubt that it's mostly perceived, but not entirely. "Humiliating" is a strong word... "embarrassing" maybe.... whatever the word for just not being proud of your performance. Sometimes just making it to the end of the swim lane is enough to be proud of yourself, but at ...

I read the title as naked joggler and wondered if Michal was going for some new record.

Why does it matter if you're in public? For many people it is difficult to put yourself out there and attempt activities that you are not proficient at. Especially if a public venue is the only place your can develop the skills necessary, like swimming at a public pool, or in my case learning gymna...

Gimp wrote:

Jwolf wrote:ha- Nick- I thought we had a new member.

Part of my transition from Nick to Nicholas....

Nigimpolas?

Not a lot of activity in the daily thread today eh? Well thankfully today went way better. 15 minute run at 5:44/km (aka 6.5mph) for 1.6 miles. Didn't suck. No perceivable tightness in the right calf or achilles. Although I did watch the clock often during the last 5 minutes. Then I did my rings wor...

Well that sucked. I didn't even make it the full 45 minutes. Bailed at 35. Was it the Open workout 15.3 and all the wall balls on Saturday? Was it increasing running time too quickly? Is treadmill running harder on the calves and achilles than outdoor? I don't know. But even with slowing down to 6:1...

I postponed my 45min run to Monday, after the Open 15.3 workout tomorrow and with a few extra recovery days. My calves and achilles are still sore and the last thing I need is an injury. This is still the acclimation phase, so it's no big deal really. Thing will find their groove once the Open is ov...

3.28 miles on the treadmill. Run#2 done. 30 minutes.

Friday:45 minutes.

1.75 miles My first run, only 15 minutes of my new training schedule. Sucked. Wednesday, 30 minutes. awesome! are you training *for* something? Training for life. 2013 was the year of mobility (once I was able to do an overhead squat properly to depth, that ended), 2014 was the year of strength dev...

1.75 miles

My first run, only 15 minutes of my new training schedule.

Sucked. Wednesday, 30 minutes.

Trash your legs then run a half marathon.

I'm not sold on the idea.

Ripptoe is a God. You don't need machines, you are a machine. A barbell is all you really need. I'd add pull ups and rows to his regimen, and lift heavy, regularly test you upper limit and you will definitely see change happen. When I get back into running I plan to apply the same principles I've be...

I think it's far more likely that they unwittingly bought the bibs online via ebay or craigslist and didn't know they were banditing. Except Boston doesn't allow transfers and is very strict about this- it's likely they knew. It's probably also well known that you can buy bibs online, but people kn...

I think it's far more likely that they unwittingly bought the bibs online via ebay or craigslist and didn't know they were banditing. Although the original hypothesis is also true, but it not they are guilty of a far lesser crime and the sellor of the bibs needs to be found and exposed. I hate onlin...