For about a year, Danielle and I have been following the CrossFit exercise program. We’re definitely not up to doing full workouts, but the program is scalable to just about any fitness level. I could go into what CrossFit is, but I recommend you just read the description on their website. Personally I can say [...]

Inspired by Patrick’s design I made a pair of squat stands for Danielle and I to use. Because two people of different heights are supposed to use it, I came up with this design. It improves Patrick’s design in that there’s something to (gently) run into, so it requires less finesse to put the bar [...]

Yesterday, Juliette threw Andy a surprise birthday party. When I got the invite earlier this week, we were told to not park in the driveway, because that would tip him off. Somehow this made me think I should ride my bike there, which is pretty crazy because it’s a 45 minute drive by car. But [...]

You just finished you’re first triathlon! What are you going to do next?
I’m not sure. After my initial somewhat negative feelings about Sunday’s experience, I seem to be changing my mind a bit. I’m still reading tri blogs. Still thinking about different training strategies, and I’m curious how much better I could do on my [...]

Two more days to the tri… I skipped out on last night’s bike ride because my back was acting up a bit. Today and tomorrow are my scheduled days of rest. Nothing to do but stay well hydrated. I use my watch to help me here. I get the interval timer to beep every 20 [...]

Today I finally did another ocean swim. I’ve been wanting to do one for a while, but it’s been raining most weekends. There have been dry spells, but since it rains so infrequently around here, rain tends to wash a lot of oil and pesticides into the water. With barely any rain in the last [...]

Did my second brick today, and it was hard. I rode the longer way home, which is 14.5 miles and hilly instead of 12 miles and flat. It took 55:29, which I consider good time. Then I had a 1:52 T2. I guess that’s slow, but at the race I won’t have to maneuver my [...]

After a week of a kind of hurt back (swam once), and a week of vacation on the east coast (ran once), I’m back on top of things this week. While I don’t always enjoy all my exercise *cough*swimming*cough*, it is satisfying to have done them all, and feel pretty good. Here’s a breakdown of [...]

After a week of not doing anything, I was feeling OK on Friday. So Saturday I swam, and today I ran. I think my back is back to its only occasionally painful state. But I am going to see my doctor about it, in an attempt to get to the bottom of my back problem.

This morning I got up kind of early (although not as early as Danielle, who ran Roses to la Playa this morning) to get in a yoga work-out before we leave to go camping this weekend. Right at the start I noticed my lower back was incredibly tight. Initially I had trouble just touching my [...]