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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Final Push: Lake Placid 2015
I just completed what’s probably my biggest month of training ever – which, since I go back to 1999 with an average of 2 IMs a year, is saying a lot. I view the training process as a series of … Continue reading
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PMC 2011
The following is a detailed analysis of my Training Peaks Performance Management Chart for the year 2011. If the above sentence seems obscure, I advise you to stop reading right now, as the following might as well be written … Continue reading
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The Mental Game
Endurance Nation has a thread running now about mental training, as if it were a separate discipline, like nutrition. Here is my contribution: I’m a big believer that the conscious mind is only a very small part of what controls … Continue reading
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Tour of California, Part IV
Stage 6: Santa Clarita Time Trial – The weather was turning foul, at least for South California. We had dodged clouds and rain during stage 5; the actual racers finished in a series of deluges into Santa Clarita. An unseasonal storm … Continue reading
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Tour of California Part III
OK, where was I … Stage 3, heading out towards Monterrey (Do you know the way from San Jose?) It’s either over the spine of the peninsula, or down south through Steinbeck country – Gilroy, Watsonville, hints of lettuce and … Continue reading
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ToC 2015: Stage 3 – Mt. Hamilton (San Jose)
Stage 3: San Jose (Mt Hamilton) – Our first real climbing day. The west coast of California is only tenuously attached to the main continental tectonic plate. Basically, San Francisco is sliding very slowly towards Los Angeles (or is it … Continue reading
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Tour of California, Day 0-2
The Tour of California is a one week stage race – pro cycling’s equivalent to baseball’s minor leagues AAA (if the Tour de France and the Italian and Spanish grand tours were MLB.) The race includes 7 “stages”, each an … Continue reading
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Going to Tibet, Part IV
Our scuba guide had promised all week a grand adventure on Friday – swimming with the seals. They liked to hang out and sun themselves on a large rock near the edge of the bay. They’d gotten used to the … Continue reading
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“Getting Old Sucks”
Another exchange on the EN forum; this one started by a 61 y/o who had great success after starting up serious triathlon training about 5 years ago. The original post has been lightly edited for acronyms and jargon. …Back in … Continue reading
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