It is rather difficult to do all of this training while holding down a family and work. However, I’ve managed to get in a couple of good workouts in the past couple of days. Tuesday was a quick 4 mile run with 1/8th mile sprints for the last mile at a 6 minute pace. Here’s [...]
After a long 4 days of battling a cold I jumped right in tonight with a solid legs and back workout, along with abs complements of P90X. Plan on getting back in the pool tomorrow at lunch. The wife is working on P90X during the week, so I kinda feel obligated to work out with [...]
Spent Wednesday night doing P90x, great workout for any of you that have never tried it. It was Shoulders & Arms night, with Ab’s at the end. I really need to start focusing on the P90x core workouts and Yoga. Yes, I said Yoga. It takes discipline to stay the course with the yoga workout. [...]
It was a challenge to complete the swim workout today. Last night I had still not decided what kind of workout I would do in the pool, so on the drive in I decided to do 4 – 250 meter sets, 3 of them sprint sets with a 60 second rest in between. When I [...]
In an effort to change up the training routine a little I’m labeling this weeks workouts as “Speed Week”. It started tonight with a short 3 mile run, yet it was a quicker than usual pace. I averaged 8:30 per mile… and it felt good. I was not too winded, yet I could tell that [...]
After taking 2 days off I returned to the pool today and got in a good swim. A fellow PTC Tri club member, Todd Atkins, spent some time with me on Friday and convinced me to slow down a little. His good advice was to not push a workout more than 10% over a personal [...]
Solid 10k (6.2 miles) tonight. After a full 12 hour day in the office sitting on my butt the last thing I wanted to do was run. I admit, I was a little ticked after missing my swim at lunch today, that must have been enough to motivate me to go straight home and hit [...]
Great workout day today. Started with a lunchtime swim of 1000 meters, consisting of 250 meter sets with 25 meter sprints on the last 250. Great workout! I’m ready to push to a 1500 meter lunchtime swim (I just have to get faster!). I still feel that I need to see a coach to [...]
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken”. Warren Buffet coined that phrase, and its written in plain view in my office for others to read. It means something different for everyone, however, for me it applies to pretty much everything in life. Last winter I [...]