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Archive for the 'Exercise' Category

Get Up Early To Nap In The Afternoon

Monday, May 10th, 2010

I’ve been coming across various articles about napping which made me curious to try it. The one thing I couldn’t figure out though, was whether it’s worth it to get less sleep at night in exchange for taking a nap during the day. Having tried that for a few weeks now, I can tell you [...]

CrossFit

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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 [...]

Homemade Squat Stands

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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 [...]

Fifty

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

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 [...]

The Next Step

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

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 [...]

Getting Ready

Friday, March 24th, 2006

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 [...]

Open Water Swim

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

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 [...]

Brick #2

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

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 [...]

Back In The Saddle

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

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 [...]

Better

Monday, February 20th, 2006

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.