I rode my bike to work today for the first time. I thought you said this biking stuff was easy! My quads were burning the whole time, probably because they were still sore from the split squats I did earlier in the week. The first two thirds of the way were pretty hard but once […]
January 2015
8 posts
Next week I’ll be turning 34. In many ways I still feel as young as I did when I was in my early 20’s but in other ways I feel pretty old. I usually wake up with a stiff back. When I replace the bottle on the water cooler I make the “old man groan.” […]
This guy was out riding his bike on the trails when he started getting chased by a grizzly bear. I don’t know about you but if anything would motivate me to pedal faster it would be a grizzly bear….especially if it was a hungry grizzly bear.
A coworker of mine bought a bike a few months back with the intention of riding it to work. He rode it once. Since then it’s been sitting in his garage. He told me he wanted to sell it, I asked him how much, and now I am the proud owner of a “practically brand […]
Hello Everybody, John here. I wrote earlier about my 14 mile training run. My wife rode the bike alongside me and crewed me during the run. She is currently training to crew for me during my 100 mile run in October. She went ahead and wrote about her experience yesterday. Enjoy! Yesterday I convinced […]
A few months ago, after finishing an 8 mile run, I told my brother Mike about it. He asked if I “felt the pain?” I responded, “uh, my knee hurt a little I guess.” He just said, “hmmph.” Last month, when I did my 10k and I was telling him about it, he asked me […]
So here I am with a little more than 10 weeks until Tough Mudder and 17 weeks until I run my first 100 mile ultra and it feels like I have spent more time planning and putting together a training plan than actually putting in the work. I would write out my training logs, and […]