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Why Iron?
My livejournal Bio ponders "Why Iron? Why set myself a goal of doing an Ironman triathlon?"
Do I have an answer?
For fun? Yes.
For the challenge? Yes.
It has been fulfilling to "master" a sport, I have enjoyed the achievement. I enjoyed the "passion of pursuit", as it were.
But I don't have any deeper an understanding for why I wanted to do ( Read more... ) -
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2008 Versus Schedule
Sunday, 11/2 - 3PM - Ford Ironman Arizona
Sunday, 11/9 - 3PM - Ford Ironman Couer d'Alene
Sunday, 11/16 - 3PM - Ford Ironman Lake Placid
Sunday, 11/23 - 3PM - Ford Ironman Louisville
Sunday, 11/30 - 3PM - Ford Ironman Wisconsin -
run, bike.
Run, bike.
Geek-o-meter stats:
run: 101 mins, 10.5 miles, 9:39 min/mile, 110 bpm HR, 1,400 calories.
bike: 126 mins, 38.2 miles, 18.1 mph, 115 bpm HR, 84 rpm, 2,500 calories. (max of 38.9 mph!:)
And a nice evening with drinks and "heavy hors d'oeuvres" with KUT/NPR's Scott Simon and Peter Sagal, chatting, entertaining and reading from their new books ( Read more... ) -
Cricket
Now that the baseball thing is over for the year, I thought I'd cut-and-paste the latest from stumps on Day 3 of 3rd Test match between Australia touring India:
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Run home, run to work
Yesterday/Thursday evening after work I did my reverse run-commute thing and ran home. This morning I did my run-commute thing and ran to work.
work to home: 43:20 mins, 5 miles, 8:40 min/mile, 132 bpm HR, 660 calories.
home to work: 50 mins, 4.96 miles, 10 min/mile, 114 bpm HR, 650 calories. -
Pennybacker Bridge hill repeats
At my warm fluffy towel gym yesterday evening, Jean Anne just whipped our butts in spin class! She'd been our instructor only sporadically these last couple of months due to her business travel, and she'd asked lots of instructors to sub for her during that time. Well, now she's repaying them, taking their classes for them. So? What's that got to ( Read more... ) -
Back on my bike (first long ride for a loooong time)
But wait, there's more. After my flexible workout schedule on Saturday, Saturday afternoon after a couple of hours pottering in the garden, after a pot of tea and after a nap, before a glass of wine while reading on the deck (what? there was a football game? huh), I slipped in 30 minutes on the bike on the trainer (10 miles, 18 mph, 600 calories, ( Read more... ) -
Flexibility
Flexibility. No, not of my limbs, I've never, for instance, been able to "touch my toes" (you know, with knees not bent, with knees bent I fare somewhat better:), but of my training time management. I have a training schedule. Sorta. It's not finalized, still tweaking it, but it's there in place, for now through 3M in January.
In true DNA HHGTTG ( Read more... ) -
Tag cloud
Gerf! According to my tag cloud over there, I've done more prattling than bike or swimming and more whining than triathlons :-( -
Rogue Running article
Ha! rogueLaura turned our various race report blog entries into a Rogue Running article.
The Puppy found a home! with Chad (Chad + puppy).