Jessica said “i want to read more blogs from you, so please get bloggin’.” Uh oh, now I feel the pressure…. Anyway, a few weeks ago, I vowed to “build up a little endurance by actually doing the “long runs” that Gilbert asks us to do on the weekends”, so here’s an update on those. […]

Jessica and I were talking last night about tempo run, specifically about how much we dislike it and how it feels like we aren’t really improving. I even started thinking about this blog entry, and how I would title it “Tempo Run, How I Loathe Thee”. But alas, today’s 4-mile tempo run wasn’t too bad, […]

Man, re-reading the previous entry, I stand by my assertion that those blow-by-blow accounts of workouts are really boring. Look for fewer of those to come. So Jessica and I joked the other day that the night before running class I should just sleep in my running clothes so that I could just wake up […]

I love me some fartlek. The 7-mile fartlek, which I ran this morning, is my favorite workout with the Gazelles. So much so, that I”m going to write one of those boring accounts of my workout. I don’t know why I like fartlek so much, maybe because with all those easy 1 minute legs to […]

1. So I don’t actually do “endurance” races. It was literary expedience. 2. This stuff I’m writing about is really dull. 3. Perhaps I fade due to nutrition issues.

If I’m going to compete in “endurance” events like triathlons and road races, I should probably build up some … oh, I don’t know … endurance. In every race I compete in, I fade at the end; it doesn’t matter the distance. From the half-marathon to the 10K to the sprint triathlon to the downhill […]

I did the CapTexTri on Memorial Day. It was my first Sprint distance triathlon, though I did 3 shorter distance tris last summer. I was hoping to have done better, finished faster, competed harder, etc., but the open water 1/2 mile swim in Town Lake just destroyed me and my race. I got out in […]