🏃♂️ Winter wonderland on today’s run. Slippery and uneven conditions helped keep the easy pace on target while adding in extra ankle and calf work.
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🔗 What Aging Can Teach Us About Sustainable Success
With that in mind, here are a few lessons I’ve learned as an aging athlete who can still run pretty fast, but is having a lot of doing it.
- Stop short. Almost always.
There’s an old adage in running that you should have one more rep in the tank. It’s also called the no hands on your knees rule. Both get a simple point, the risk of pushing to get that final repeat is seldom worth it. The benefit is small, if it even exists.
I’m tempted to write this on my shoes. Good advice that I followed this morning: the workout called for 5–8 reps and I stopped after 5 good ones.
🏊♂️🚴🏃♂️ Finding the return to fitness sweet spot with RTT
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Thanks to a pre-Christmas flu and general busyness over the holidays, my triathlon training took a dive.
This past week, I’ve really tried to get back into it. As a result, my watch and phone have been pointing out that my training load has spiked and are suggesting caution.
At the same time, my readiness to train has been correspondingly increasing. I’ve been using this increase, plus generally feeling good, to keep the training intensity at the right level without overdoing it.
Seems to be working so far. Now that I feel like I’ve regained momentum, I’ll ease off on the training progression to stabilize on a more modest increase over weeks. I don’t need to relearn the lessons of overtraining and injury!
Göran Winblad has a good video on how to use RTT and HRV as one indicator in training. Worth investigating for your training too.
🥶🏊♂️ Shortest and coldest swim of the year
🏃♂️ Simultaneously ridiculous, inspiring, and intriguing
🏃♂️ New running shoe day!
🏃♂️ Thinking about my grandmother on today’s run. She was a bright spark and warm hug for 100 years 😢
🏃♂️ Lovely weather for a run
🏊♂️ 🚴 🏃♂️ Here we go again!
🍁 Starting to feel like Fall on today’s run 🏃♂️
🏃♂️ Preparing for this weekend’s gluttony with an easy (mostly) trail run
🏃♂️ I was very lucky to win a pair of Arc’teryx Norvans at the recent Truth & Reconciliation Trail Run. I picked them up today and look forward to trying them out. Big thanks to Arc’teryx for the support!
🏃♂️ The 3rd Annual Truth & Reconciliation Trail Run in support of Anduhyaun Women’s Shelter was great, though difficult, fun. Lots of hills on this one
Saturday, September 21, 2024 →
🏃♂️ Tried a new trail near the in-law’s house for today’s run
🏊♂️ I tried the new structured swim workout this morning in watchOS 11. I appreciated not needing to remember the details about intervals or mentally tracking my laps. Unfortunately I can’t “accidentally” misread the clock anymore for extra rest 😀
🏃♂️ 8 minute zone 3 repeats on today’s run. Feels like summer out there
🏃♂️ Back on a track for this morning’s run. I’ve been away from speed work for too long.
🏃♂️ Coming across this World War 1 monument, seemingly in the middle of nowhere while running on a country road, was a good reminder of the sacrifices people have made for us
🏃♂️ I find it easier to keep good form at faster paces. So, practicing staying tall at a more moderate pace
🏃♂️ Inspired by finishing The Lost Art of Running to pay attention to my form. For this run I focused on running tall and looking forward. Tough to maintain on the hills
🏃♂️ All runs here are hill training
🏊♂️ The dogs are vigilant lifeguards while I swim
🏊♂️ The easing in continues
🏃♂️ Easing back into a routine
🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️ Getting ready
🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️ 2024 Milton Sprint Triathlon
Sunday, June 2, 2024
My third year in a row for this one and, despite pouring rain for the entire race, it was still fun and well organized.
My times across the three have been within minutes of each other. Although this one was slowest of the three, given the conditions, I’m happy with the overall results and ended up 12th in my age group.
At least in the swim, it didn’t matter that it was raining. I think they had less time between heats though and swimmers really bunched up for the last 200m.
As usual the trip up the escarpment is still a brutal climb and trip down terrifying. I maxed out at 70km/h coming down this time. With the poor visibility and slippery conditions from the rain that was more than fast enough.
Plenty of mud through the back half of the run. I almost lost a shoe!
Overall the conditions made for a good test of mental resilience which is always useful.
My only real problem was in T2. I couldn’t find my stuff! The area available for my age group was full. So, I put everything elsewhere and then couldn’t find it 🤣. The 3 minute transition was an embarrassment.
🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️ Ready for tomorrow
🏃♂️ Today’s run was a fun exploration of Porto
🏃♂️ Nice to be mostly on trails for today’s run
🏃♂️ A misty run this morning
