My final long long run before St. George marathon in 3 weeks.

After weather watching to see what Hurricane Ike would do to us here in Austin, Texas (hint: nothing), my point-to-point run went really well. It was an O'Dark:thirty alarm call, some coaching duty at Rogue before a run start at 5:30am up at the Gateway RunTex. This run is deceptive: once ( Read more... )

I've been looking forward to the Yasso 800's on my schedule for weeks (which is kinda dopey! I write my own schedule, so if I wanted them, I shoulda just written them in earlier! duh ( Read more... )

I totally flaked on the swim this/Tuesday morning -- even having sent out my usual e-mail nudging people to join me! Sorry triman , others! That's the first time I said I'd be there and wasn't, hopefully I won't do that again! :(

Yesterday/Monday evening it was weights then spin at my warm fluffy towel gym. Jean Anne wasn't there, instead it was the saucy ( Read more... )

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I send out a little e-mail nudge for a swim group each week (SwimSpam). It might be a catalyst around which a small group of us gather; it might not, maybe we'd each swim anyway. Regardless, in it I usually say what time I'll get there, how far I'm swimming. Armed with that knowledge, others can specifically be there at that time (or, I suppose, ( Read more... )

So, where were we?

Ah, yes. Yesterday/Saturday was a 23-mile long run. It should have been 22, but Rogue mileage is an entity all to itself, the 22-miler was closer to 23. And we debated "only" doing 20, ditto, the 20-miler was closer to 21. Something like: I start at 26: "Heck no, I'm not running 26 without getting a medal". And then it comes back ( Read more... )

I got nagged for 8 miles this morning! Yes, clipped to my bat belt (CamelBak waist pack water thingy with cell phone, wallet, work security cards, keys, TP, rear-red-blinky, ...) is soooo much better than on the hat two inches from each ear, but nagging is nagging. The first time, the other day, this running metronome was set to my cadence, so we ( Read more... )

Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be another piece of electronics to strap on your body for a run ...

Some of my reading of late has touched upon running cadence. I presumed I have a somewhat efficient running style, but there's always room for improvement. I do think I lope. So lately I've been counting my running cadence, just like I ( Read more... )

I have not ridden since Bike TT II two weeks ago, wasn't TT'ing to see any improvement (or, indeed, worsening), instead simply treating these Tuesday night TT's as a quality bike workout. Although not riding, I have been doing -- from riding's perspective -- lots of cross training. One change I have made is that I've added (well, to be correct, "I' ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when the sun has just come up, when the air is clean, when I think (but what do I know?) it is great light for photography, I'll stand up at the far wall of the Barton Springs Pool, interrupting my lap, pausing to look down over the edge into the doggy-paddle pool just in case. It happened that I was leading this particular lap this ( Read more... )