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Training for a triathlon in Tokyo

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Plank Streak - Now at 58 days in a row

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A few months ago one of my teammates talked glowingly of his “running streak” (consecutive days of running at least one mile).   Anothe...
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Sunday, January 06, 2019

Chiang Mai 2019

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After a string of second place finishes I am just so pleased to receive this big "Winner" banner, especially amidst a splendid aw...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

High Performance Vegetable & Fruit Smoothies

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My sleep post was apparently so boring that most of my remaining followers immediately cancelled their feeds.  So in this post I will...
Friday, December 07, 2018

The Sleep-Deprived Triathlete

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Way back in the earliest of posts in this blog , I lamented being such an outlier in terms of sleep.  I have never met anyone who has nee...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Autumn 2018 Running Races

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Would the limited mileage of “3+2” cross-training negatively impact my race performance?  Would my bounding prove to be some fountain o...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Run Training Summary - 2018

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My run volume has dropped by some 40% during the past eight months since I shifted into “ 3 + 2 Cross-Training ” (compared to the 300 k...
Friday, September 21, 2018

10k Obstacle Course Race

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I finish 2 nd  in my age group in last week’s Spartan Obstacle Course Race.  I attribute much of this success to the fact that the elderly ...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Cebu Half-Ironman

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I dreaded the Cebu Triathlon.  I dreaded every aspect of it.  I dreaded swimming in choppy seas. Biking on a narrow, crowded course.  Runni...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Lake Whatcom Triathlon

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I need to do a couple triathlons each year to force myself to swim and bike a bit.  So for 2018 I enter the lovely  Lake Whatcom Triathl...
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Friday, May 25, 2018

Living in the Present (May Race Reports)

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On May 13th I run 38:41 at the Fuji-Susono 10k, bettering my time from a year ago by over 30 seconds, and even improving on my time from 2...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

3 + 2 Training (FIRST) & April Training Summary

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It is April - time to start triathlon training, and my whole 80/20 training program I talked about last month is out the window. Now ...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

80/20 rule -- 80% easy / 20% intensity (and February/March training summary)

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One of my teammates asks me if I really think that the easy runs are essentially "worthless", and that we should just focus on q...
Friday, March 02, 2018

The Frugal Triathlete

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My payment software generates slick and detailed output (note that I used to work for this financial software company back in Silicon...
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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Bounding drills

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My 2018 training is all about bounding and more bounding  By bounding I mean the explosive skipping exercise as demonstrated here  ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Consistency (Training Summary)

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I have succeeded in maintaining consistent volume over the first 10 months of 2017 and even through the summer months: OK, maybe 29...
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