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Body Work
Coach Patrick Here’s what I’m trying to fit in on a weekly basis for “strength”:• 8-10′ of slow dynamic stretching – a routine I’ve honed over the past 30+ years• 10-15′ of gluteal work, one leg at a time – trimmed … Continue reading
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Weekly Update: Week 9 Get Faster
Continuing to discover my current limits. Last week: Swim x 2 OWS 1 hr & 1:10Bike: 1 x VO2 set of 7x 2′(2′) @ 1.10-1.20 IF; 1 mtn ride of 47 mi/5200’/3:36, 2 good climbs @ 1 hour & 30′Run … Continue reading
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Weekly Update: Independence Day
Continuing to discover my current limits. Last week: Swim x 2 OWS 1 hr & 1:10Bike: 1 x VO2 set of 7x 2′(2′) @ 1.10-1.20 IF; 1 mtn ride of 47 mi/5200’/3:36, 2 good climbs @ 1 hour & 30′Run … Continue reading
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My Knee is Healed?
I started running @ age 50. I’m lean – 5’8.5″ (used to be 2″ taller)/146#, so excess weight is not an issue. But decades of weight lifting (heavy squats, leg extensions), hard-core skiing (bumps/moguls) and breaststroke swimming (whip kick) took … Continue reading
Posted in Injuries and Recovery, Triathlon Central
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Love Rhymes Elevator Pitch
Over the past three months, I’ve been learning and understanding what my book is about. I started writing with a story in mind, a beginning, middle, and end. I had themes I wanted to emphasize, characters I wanted to present, … Continue reading
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Passports
Whatever happened to the edict, “Businesses can choose whom they will and will not serve.”? E.g., no wedding cakes for gay couples. In the absence of any legislation requiring or prohibiting vaccine “passports”, then any business should be allowed to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Economics
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Wood Shed
“Look!” I pointed out our study window, overlooking one of the five acres on which we live. Cheryl, still asleep, or nearly so, could only mumble, “Mumpf?” “A tree. A big one. It must have fallen recently. I didn’t hear … Continue reading
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Unity
Republicans are complaining the Biden administration is not practicing “Unity” when it expresses willingness to have Congress pass laws with only Democratic votes. Those who conflate “bipartisan” behaviour with “unity” are (deliberately?) missing the forest for the trees. President Biden, … Continue reading
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Heat Training and Adaptation
I don’t know where I copied this from, but it’s chock full of good information: The science of running in the heat Body temperature and heat removal Why is running harder when it’s hot out? It all comes down to … Continue reading
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Exercised
Early humans – the ones who walked 6 miles a day to find roots and animals to eat – did not exercise. That is, they did not set aside an hour here or there to “get in shape” for hunting … Continue reading
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