I have always complained about the way cycling is all-consuming. I complained about it in the beginning when I was a Cycling Widow and I will complain about it now that I am a Cycling Harlot.
It takes over everything. Everything.
The clothing - it must be constantly washed and cared for. The gear must be tuned, […]
At mile 54, Steve Brown rolls up to me with his big three million dollar grin.
"How ya feelin’?"
There is no room for pretense at this point, no room for bravado. I checked my ego at the door after the 26 mph "warmup".
"Steve. I am in so much pain. I want to chop my legs off […]
So much running and cycling. So many training rides, so many heart rate files.
My legs need time. They develop slower than I’d like. I push and push and push them to go farther, climb faster, do more. They ache all the time.
Their ache is my favorite sign of progress.
Indeed, as I build this base of […]
On Saturday I got back on the bike for real. I went out with a teammate to go long and slow. Long and steady. My training doesn’t usually call for LSD, so I was looking forward to ignoring the HR monitor and just riding.
I wanted to learn a new route, so I called on the […]
My cousin asked me about this a little over a month ago when she was down with some really nasty cold/flu stuff.
"Should I run?"
I told her to stop and get better. Or, if she did want to get a few miles in just for sanity’s sake, to go someplace warm (a gym) and do them […]
The evil kid germs that I lamented yesterday took their full SuperPower Form inside my chest yesterday as I gutted my way through the shoot. By this morning they were raging a small flu-war inside my body. I am smashed and demolished.
I won’t into long, painful details about all of the ways that I hurt […]
Remember the Gravitron?
It’s that dumb amusement park ride where you lean against the wall and the room spins so fast your sliding wall-pad slides up and you are lifted off your feet, pinned by the mighty G-Forces that the Carnie-in-Charge hoards over you.
It was kind of fun, right? But it also sort of made your […]
The sun came out. Portland stretched and yawned and shielded her eyes.
The bike called, so I came.
On Thursday Sal and I hit the road together for the first time in a long while. We took an old familiar route south to Oregon City, around Lake Oswego, back to Terwilliger and home. The last time we’d […]
It happens to all of us at some point. An uninspired workout - a grueling, excruciating, inexplicably terrible workout. There’s no good reason for it - just no go-juice.
It’s awful.
This happened to me on Sunday morning. The longest 45 minute run of my life. Ten times longer than Friday’s 80 minute scorch-fest. Seriously. Bad.
As I […]
About a week ago I wrote about how to speed your recovery between workouts. I mentioned things like sleep and L-Glutamine and nutrition and hot baths. The discussion that followed in the comments was an interesting one in which new readers Coach Volk and Ultra Rob both extolled the virtues of the ice bath.
Ultra Rob […]
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