May 01
So, today, I headed out on my scheduled brick workout. According to the schedule, this meant a 4 hour bike ride and 1 hour run. The good news is that I completed the workout and felt great doing it. However, afterwards, I was looking at my schedule online, and noticed that I had the same …
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Apr 29
It has been a busy two days with training and work, so I’ve got to try and make this quick. Wednesday I had a 2 hour bike ride on tap for the day. I did a ride out Grand Haven to meet Jennie at the end of the day. It was a miserably windy ride …
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Apr 23
So, rewind to a few months ago when I was putting together my training schedule. For some reason, I chose to do level 5 out of Matt Fitzgerald’s book. I thought it was a good idea. I did level 4 last year and I wanted to step it up a bit. However, level 5 is …
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Apr 19
This morning, I headed over to NBC Universal Sports web page to watch the Boston Marathon. I was very unhappy that they wanted $5 to watch it. Seriously?? Isn’t everything on the Internet supposed to be free? So, instead, I headed over to Justin.tv where I could watch it for free. The quality wasn’t great, …
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Apr 18
Yesterday, I did my long brick. I was originally scheduled to do a 4 hour bike / 1 hour run, but I decided against doing the full workout. I really wasn’t prepared for that sort of distance yet, so I backed off a bit. I ended up doing a 3 hour bike ride and 30 …
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