May
17
As the slow march back towards fitness starts I have begun to wonder how rapid the loss of fitness was. I was maintaining a fairly strong fitness base for the 4 years or so that lead up my last event, 2012′s Scotiabank half marathon in Vancouver. I was not surprised at all to learn that …
May
02
Quietly beginning to get runs in more days than not and beginning to feel a little life returning to my legs. Its a great and somewhat sad reminder of the fitness level that I had maintained but was unaware of for near 4 years. I take a little ease from Scott Jurek saying its okay …
Apr
27
Its been a little quiet on this front for the last while but as this is primarily a running log I haven’t had much to add during the last 6 or 7 months while its been quiet on my event calendar. Slowly things are returning to a more normal rhythm. On a Saturday morning 5 …
Feb
17
I spent a lot of time (3 years) focused squarely focused on making the return trip up the boulevard to the red carpet in Leadville. It was a destination well worth the journey. I have also just spent a good number of months with attention purposely focused away from training or racing. Another welcomed journey. …
Nov
05
With the pending arrival of our daughter in December Tracy and I have been spending time looking through our baby pictures with our parents and speculating on which features match who as compared to the 3D images we have from Ultrasounds. Its been a fun exercise. During all of this though I cant help but …
Oct
30
The last few weeks have been a steady build of some reasonably good base numbers . The goal mileage has been slowly widdled from 360 something down below 288 before todays numbers get added, err subtracted off. The consistent daily runs although short are beginning to feel really good especially when coupled with the swelling …
Oct
24
Its becoming like the ‘white bronco’ chase for endurance athletics fans. Just a lot slower and drawn out and not on broadcast television. The Lance Armstrong fall out. We all were given the opportunity to the ‘reasoned decision’ against LA a few weeks back. As I mentioned then I was surprised that all evidence was …
Oct
19
One of the fundamental focuses during a triathlon is reducing the amount of time spent in the swim to bike and bike to run transitions of the event. The city of Penticton is about to learn if they have put enough focus on their huge transition. After 30 years as the host city of Ironman …
Oct
17
Doing a quick search back through the last year of posts I quickly realized that I have been dealing with the nerve pain/swelling in my right foot for ~18 months. Thinking back I can remember specifically stopping during the Burnaby Lake 100 mile run to check my right shoe for rocks after about 60 miles. …
Oct
12
Its been near a year since I last toed the start line of an ultra distance event and it’ll be at least January 1 before I do again. I have been mulling over whether or not it made any sense to participate in next weekends Whistler 50 event and just enjoy the day. I don’t …
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