The Pro’s and Con’s of Shaving

On a strictly weird and personal level, I tend to classify triathletes into one of two categories; there are either the “shavers” or the “non-shavers”.  Up until this point in my tenure as an avid triathlon participant I have never seen the need, nor understood for that matter the point of shaving my legs.  I [...]

Epic Success

So, I recently felt the need to redeem myself a little bit after my latest Epic Fail in the Hot Yoga studio a little over a week ago.  Although I have been practicing more at home now, I still felt this need for redemption and to make peace with the whole hot yoga thing once [...]

2012 Racing Season

The 2012 racing season is just about here and I’m about as giddy as a tweener at a Justin Bieber concert!  Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…. At times I thought this winter and indoor training season would never end and, yet, here we are in May and I’m all registered for my [...]

Epic Fail

Sometimes, mistakes are valuable.  They can often serve as immediate portals to that ultimate ‘ah ha’  moment when the inevitable challenge or difficulty you happen to be experiencing makes it glaringly obvious that you’ve fucked up and, hopefully, what you need to improve to prevent it from ever happening again.  I just happened to experience [...]

Runner’s Toe

There are lots of unflattering and painful things that can happen to runners over the course of their training: leaky bladder, diarrhea, bloody nipples, ass rash (or worse), pulled muscles, plantar fasciitis, ITB issues; you name it I’ve dealt with it.  But, for whatever reason, up until today I’ve never had to deal with the [...]

Hell is Coming for Breakfast

Long Run(click to see stats) 21.1k (1:56:00) Avg. Heart Rate = 148bpm Max. Heart Rate = 157 bpm Avg. Pace = 5:30/km Best Pace = 4:34 /km Calories = 2009 Temp = -3º SOTD: ‘Thela Hun Ginjeet’  (Les Claypool; 07-01-01) I’ve alluded to it before, and I’ll reiterate it again:  I train so I can [...]

Let the Good Times Flow

You may remember way back when, I once complained of suffering from a bad case of “Swimmers Sinusitis” after spending so much time swimming in chlorinated water at my local YMCA pool.  But, largely thanks to a few regular visitors to this blogsite, I stumbled onto the medicinal phenomenon known as the “Neti Pot”.  Sanskrit [...]

The Odd Couple

Not everything in my life revolves around swimming, biking and running.  And, no, I don’t mean yoga or plyometrics either…or eating for that matter.  I actually do have some down time periodically; except that after Miso’s passing back in August, that downtime has been rather daunted.  So last month I did something to drastically improve [...]

The Big Move

The Big Move (click to see stats) * 121.73k (5:57:08) Avg. Heart Rate = 110 bpm Max. Heart Rate = 169 bpm Avg. Speed/Pace = 21.4/kph Best Speed/Pace = 61.2/kph Calories = 4183 Temp = 22º SOTD = ‘Sweet Home Alabama’  by Lynyrd Skynryd * Information within this link is not accurate as I forgot [...]

Swimmer’s Sinusitis

Lately, I’ve had this on-going battle after with my sinuses and I’ve just been chalking it up to the changing of the seasons, or the gravitational pull of the moon, or planetary alignment, or whatever it is that makes your nose drip like a diuretic gerbil.  But now I’ve discovered that I may, in fact, [...]