Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

Another good week of training… that makes 4 in a row. I still think I am about 6-8 weeks away from being back to normal…
Highlights of this week included me doing my first real “brick” workout. I said previously I did this already 3 days/week normally but this was my first hard one. On Saturday […]

Interesting article on Yahoo! News describing the benefits of weight training and the slowing of the aging process. Time to hit the gym! Start taking some HGH along with the weight training and 100 will be the new 40.
Researchers have found that seniors who participated in weight training not only improved muscle strength and […]

This was another decent week of training. I did the normal 5 days of bike commuting with the extended rides on M,W,F. Tuesday a did a hilly 1:02 run with Cody which was a good session. I also attended my 3rd week of interval training with VFAC which showed another week of improvement I have […]

Well last week was my first “solid” week of training in probably 10 months.
On Tuesday I did an actual tempo run over a hilly loop in Stanley Park for just under 60 minutes and on Thursday I returned to VFAC for my second interval work out and boy was it a hard one… we did […]

Well I finally made it back to VFAC intervals for my first club workout session since last June. Man was it painful, the workout was 2 x 1 7/8 miles the first interval I took it fairly easy but still faster than I have run in an extended burst in almost a year, the second […]

I decided to take a clean break from running for 2 weeks which seems to be helping. I never like taking two steps backwards to go two steps forward but I had to do this in this case or I may never heal.
I have also started riding my XC mountain bike to work to […]

Well the last 2 weeks have been spent trying to heal so no real training to report. I started going to massage therapy in hopes of relieving the muscle spasms in my leg. It seems to be helping. I also got my Jake set up in a less agressive position now and it seems to […]

I should start referring to this as my weekly whine and complain blog. This week saw my return to racing, I entered the Ironlung 10k Run Inn Sane Trail Race which is a great trail run through Pacific Spirit Park but unfortunately for me it was also a painful experience… I saw 300 the night […]

Week 11 was a mini vacation week. I went out to Calgary to visit family. It was a good break we did some pretty cool hikes and snowshoes up in Kananaskis and Lake Louise which were kind of hard coming from sea level. One snowshoe we were around 7000ft in soft snow which I […]

Training sort of. Still recovering from my slow climb out of the injury/dead leg hole. I was reading IMPACT magazine and they had a section and body weight and race performance. They mentioned that if you are carrying over 7% of your “race weight” you are at higher risk of injuries… well I am in […]