Endurance Junky

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 [...]

This week more or less sucked for training. My right hip flexor was beyond tight so I decided to drop the bike commuting and do only shory “easy runs”. Hopefully I can have a good week of training this week. I was planning on doing the Harry Rosen 8k on Sunday which seems pretty unlikely [...]

This week was painful. It was fine until Wednesday when I started feeling a cramping in my right leg. Basically the whole upper leg feels like a “charlie horse”. I can run but it hurts. I finished the week and will take Monday completely off and not ride on Tuesday… … You think you have [...]

First off I am not insane or crazy but sometimes I think I am being poisoned. I feel so weak, last year at this time I could bang off 2 hour+ runs in my sleep run 5-6 days a week plus bike commute. This year 4 days of running and bike commuting with no real [...]

This week was another OK week of training. I managed to bike commute for the 3rd week now and I am now back into the groove. I can now more or less slip into auto pilot even on the 8th Ave hill. On Thursday I attempted my first “speed” session since last June. I did [...]

Fairly good week of training. I continued to maintain a higher volume of aerobic but it did end on a sour note. On my Sunday run I fell hard and it feels like I may have injured my shoulder quite badly will see how it feels tomorrow; it sucks because I was planning on climbing [...]

Good week of training. Increased my volume of aerobic training from the last week by over 4 hours. I also finished the week by doing some “Trad Climbing” in Squamish with Chris and let me tell you I am in f*cking pain. Endurance athletes have weak upper bodies and it showed today. Chris told me [...]

The last week was filled with crap weather which meant a couple of missed workouts. I also conclude I am fat. I still have not lost the pounds I put on during the holiday break. The scale says 161 I feel soft. January 15 Bike commute. Time: 1:08 My first bike commute in over a [...]

Week two of training was pretty low key. It snowed in Vancouver so I missed one workout because of ice. January 10th Easy Run to Cambie Time: 0:42:16 Ave HR: 161 bpm Max HR: 191 January 11th Snowshoe Grouse Mountain Time: 0:47:26 Ave HR: 162 bpm Max HR: 192 This was with the Grouse Mountain [...]

Well I am officially training again. I have a snowshoe race on the 20th so I have to gain a little bit of fitness and shed some lbs before then. Here is a summary of last weeks training. *I got a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS/Heart Rate Monitor for Xmas my workout digest can be viewed [...]