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Archive for July, 2005

Posted Jul. 28 2005

Today in the gym

Well today I planned on doing the whole tri, and I got close. I think the 5 hours of restless sleep and hangover this morning may have hurt the progress. However, I did get the 400 m swim in, then I took a break to get my BF % measured and then went …

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still running

a quick overview so far – monday I ran 2.5 miles, tuesday i ran 3 miles (in approx 45 min) wednesday i walked about 4 miles (talking the entire time) and today i actually ran and timed myself – 1.52 miles in 15.17 minutes – not bad for an old fart like me – i …

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scared today!

Well yesterday I got back to lifting for upper body. I used light weights and high reps to get the shoulder use to it again and today the upper body is sore. Then I went to the pool to swim, but I think I was drained from the previous bike ride still cause …

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Tell Him What He’s Won!

Congratulations Scott. Because your training partner was a poser and felt like complete ass after the swimming, and because he also wimped out and didn’t run hills, you win a “Get out of one exercise routine with Keohan” Card! I don’t know what was up with me yesterday, but I had not felt that crappy …

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Triathlon Training – July 28

Without a doubt, because of Mr. Karzazes email and the fact I almost finished his book last night, today was all about the running. Well, running/walking.
I decided to set the treadmill up a little higher, to make it a bit more difficult, since it’s generally easier than “real” running. It slowed me down …

Posted Jul. 27 2005

Kind of a slow day…

Until the afternoon. Not a lot of site updates today, but that is just a cyclical thing, I suppose. I’m sure tommorrow everyone will post twice
So, Keohan and I went to swim. We did 8 25m sprints…all out. We did them in two sets of 4, and were dizzy …

Posted Jul. 26 2005

I’m Alive – Triathlon Training July 26

I was reading through the recent posts, and realized I haven’t really posted anything worth a crap in the last week or so. I’ll try to deliver better this week
Anyway, I’m finally back in the groove of getting up at 5. The initial struggle is always well worth it, and you …

Posted Jul. 25 2005

2 posts in one day because of excitement

Well I thought I was leaving for St. Louis this evening for work, but the bus left me because of miscommunication between my office and theirs. Oh well, just means I get in bed tonight before 2 am and that I get 2 workouts in today since I went the gym a minute ago …

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running in hades

well, this weekend was a total relaxation – the family went to see two movies – went looking at cars all day saturday – got our tandom bike and rode it home – what a blast – it will take some time to get used to it but i think its like riding a …

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We were all over the place

Well, we did not do much training this weekend because of all the heat advisories, but we did get our tandem bike finally. It took us forever, but it is finally home and working well. When we went to pick the bike up, it would not fit in the car, so …