14.1 nearly broke my left foot. 14.2 damaged my confidence. 14.3 landed me in the hospital with exertional headaches. 14.4 ripped open both of my hands. 14.5 beat me down for more than twenty-six minutes, and left my arms nearly inoperable for four days. And I can’t wait to do it all again. My rookie […]
(Read Part 1 here) The wisdom of our end-around route to avoid Combs Creek Road was soon called into question by a surprising amount of elevation change, and what seemed like an endless number of miles. In fact, our grand plan had added some 12 miles to our total, and they weren’t anywhere near as […]
That my last attempt at the Sub 9 Death March nearly killed me should have served as some deterrent. That this winter has been particularly severe and persistent should have discouraged me. Last year’s teammates opting out of this year’s event for those reasons and others should have been reason for me to follow suit. […]
It happens to every athlete, at some point. When you push the bounds of what your body is capable of, when you’re constantly approaching the limits of your physical system, sometimes your body pushes back. A joint will give way, a muscle will tear, a minor injury will happen. When you push to the maximum, […]
Of all the sports and physical activities in which I engage, none is so polarizing among my friends as running. That’s surprising, given that running is the one sport I do that our bodies were specifically engineered to do, if the human physiological adaptations for moving faster than a walk are considered. And yet when […]
For any athlete new to CrossFit, the prescribed (Rx) weights and reps on most of the workouts can be daunting. For me, since I started going regularly late last year, they’ve ranged from “hey, I could almost… no I can’t” to “there is no freaking way.” For several WODs, I’ve been able to Rx two […]
I hope. I hope that you’ve read all this. All of the baring of my soul and publishing of the details of my life to all the world. All the hours of capturing, editing, writing, editing again. I hope that you saw what I made for you, took it in, tasted it. I hope you […]
So where do I go from here? I’ve talked about my goals for next season on the bikes, with my running, and at the gym. But what is to become of all this? This little project has developed a small, but devoted following. It’s become important to me and to more of you than I […]
It’s no secret that I started planning for next season months ago. With how the last two seasons have gone, I can barely wait to write another chapter! I started off this year with some ambitious goals, and while I missed a few small ones, they all served to spur me forward. For 2014, all […]
Today at CrossFit was another team WOD, this time in teams of three. And a good thing too, since some of the exercises were things I wasn’t sure I could do. There were four stations, and each team would have three minutes at each to complete as many rounds as possible before having 1 minute […]
Our new cardio room at work has two new row machines, and they are the fanciest I have ever seen! Each one sports this fancy display, a belt drive in place of the customary chain, and servo-actuated resistance internal to the unit. Perhaps its best feature is the seat, which is slightly cushioned. That’s a […]
Our new (to us) BMW 335d is fun for a lot of reasons, but maybe the best one is the fuel economy. It has nearly twice the range of the Sentra it replaced, making it seem like we almost never have to fill the thing up. Which, when you’re running around as much as we do, is […]