#Exercise

Posts tagged as Exercise

CrossFit

For about a year, Danielle and I have been following the CrossFit exercise program. We're definitely not up to doing full workouts, but…

Fifty

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…

The Next Step

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…

Getting Ready

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…

Open Water Swim

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…

Brick #2

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…

Better

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…

Hurt

This morning I got up kind of early (although not as early as Danielle, who ran Roses to la Playa this morning) to get in a yoga work-out…

Biking

On Wednesday night I had an awesome bike ride home. I ended up working a bit late, so it was completely dark when I left. Getting out of…

Water Everywhere

After every swim, my nose is running for the next twelve hours. I'm not sure how, but my sinus system gets cleaned with chlorine every time…

Improving

I seem to be getting a lot better at running. I've been measuring my heart rate after each run (by timing how long 40 beats take), and it's…

Ocean Swim

I had this all written up, and then Firefox crashed. Anyway, I went for an ocean swim yesterday. Here are the highlights: My wetsuit works…

Be A Fish

On Saturday I went to swim in the ocean, just to get used to it. It turns out that the ocean is very cold in January and, worse, it'll only…

Tough Run

My beautiful beach route has turned into an army-grade obstacle course. The dirt right after the train tracks has turned into slick mud…

Being Good

He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or good, So be good, for goodness' sake. I'm…

Yoga

A while back I started doing yoga. One of the benefits of working where I do is that there is a free yoga class twice a week. The class is…

Great Swim

I had an excellent swim yesterday, which has me quite excited. When I started swimming about 6 weeks ago I hadn't swum in forever, and had…

Sick

Being sick can really mess with your training plan. Yesterday an upset stomach kept me in bed or in front of the TV for most of the day…

Biking Safely

An friend pointed me to a site with some very graphic pictures (really, don't click if you have a weak stomach), telling me to be sure to…

Beautiful Run

Thanksgiving seems to make everybody post lists of what they're thankful for. Instead, I will just describe all the good things about today…

My First Brick

This morning I biked to work (12 miles) for the first time in quite a while. I still took it fairly easy, keeping my cadence high. (A…