I’ve upped the intensity of my workouts this week as I am a mere 1 1/2 weeks to Banana Belt. Hill sprints on Tuesday, 5×5’s plus a 20 min tempo on Wednesday, and a completely killer round of Plyometrics and 1 minute sprints this morning. I found the workout on Carmichael’s sit[...]
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Swimmin again
Last night I joined the Portland Triathlon Club for their season opener: swim workout at Dishman community center. Looks like I’ll be joining the club another year, and I’ll just see what happens. The workout went well, I felt really strong, despite not swimming at all the last few weeks[...]
February 4th, 2008 - 9:53 am § in Workouts
Plyometrics: don’t try this at home
Since it was snowing on Saturday, the team got together at the 10 Avenue Athletic Club for a 2 hour pain fest. 30 of us dragged our bikes and trainers to the basketball court, only to start an hour of plyo hell. We followed the P90X dvd. It starts out innocently enough. But gradually, ever [...][...]
Sleep & Such
How much sleep is enough? I struggle with this question at times, it seems as though anyone seriously training needs to sleep whenever they’re not training or eating. Joe Friel of the ever popular training “bibles” suggests around 9 hours of sleep a night–as a minimum. The sc[...]
January 31st, 2008 - 7:51 am § in Workouts
Want to find your edge fast?
For some reason I find body weight exercises damn hard–they make me feel like a complete weeny. I could be in the gym bench pressing crazy weight, but as soon as I have to do burpees and handstands, I’m toast. This morning I did 3 5×5’s (5 minutes at 170-180bpms, 5 min rest), [...]
January 30th, 2008 - 11:33 am § in Workouts
Workin it
This week has been going fabulously. I swam and lifted weights on Monday, took a very intense spinning class on Tuesday (I was excited to learn that one of my favorite instructors from the Tualatin 24hr also teaches on Tuesdays downtown), and this morning a did a strong session of 2×20s with my[...]
January 27th, 2008 - 2:35 pm § in Workouts
Next week’s workouts
Time to be a bit more accountable. Monday: swimming, heavy weights training Tuesday: spinning class 60 minutes Wednesday: 75min on trainer Thursday: 45min on trainer, stength training Friday: 60min Swimming or yoga (REST DAY!) Saturday: Group ride (4 hours) Sunday: Mountain biking, 2-3 hours, mode[...]
January 25th, 2008 - 9:36 am § in Workouts
Waking at the ass crack of dawn: thoughts from this week
Well, it’s finally happened: I’m officially a morning workout person. I started last week, waking between 5-5:30am every morning. After 2 weeks of living in a fog, I actually woke up before my alarm this morning. Damn. I have to say that coming home right after work is a bit odd: I actua[...]
Time for a throw down
I’ve floundering with motivation a bit lately. I really want to do a real cycle this month–the next three weeks I plan on steadily increasing my cycling volume. I’ve been thinking about this now and again, thinking about how I’d eventually come up with some sort of plan or ot[...]
(another) week of rest
Didn’t I just have one of these? Feels that way. I biked a TON last week, and by the end of my double-ride weekend, my knee was hurting. And since I worked all weekend and till 10pm Mon-Wed this week, I took it off. I did 90mins of yoga 3 days, and I did go [...][...]
