A 190 Pound Experiment

For a variety of reasons my training goals have radically changed over the last month. I've essentially been off for three weeks now, but in a lot of ways I'm in better shape than I was when I was clocking miles every day. In other ways, not so much. I have a race in exactly ten days and I've done zero pointed training for it. Instead of skipping it I'm going to use it to set a baseline for the next year or so.

It's going to be an experiment:



I'll post various stats after the 10th and we'll see where things go from there.

Fall Bike Rides

The garden season is coming to an end, two of the three big projects that have occupied me--the way Germany occupied Paris--are in the can, and the weather is breaking. That means a couple of things, but mostly bike rides are coming back.



There's still the IT band problem, most recently diagnosed as a too tight pectineus. (Don't get me started on the stretches I'm supposed to do for that.) So I'm swapping out long runs right now for longish bike rides. Fall racing is on the way, and I'm supposed to start my half-marathon training plan in about a week--we'll see how that works out.