The vast majority of my training is done by myself. It gives me a lot of time to think which is both good and bad. While I was riding at the Palmer Urban Mountain Bike Park yesterday, I was thinking about what might have been. I remember running the mile for gym class. I wasn’t […]
Last year, I had a fantastic season racing the Wisconsin Off-Road Series (WORS) in the Citizen category. I won my age group, largely thanks to a accruing bonus points for doing all 9 races in the series. I managed to nab first place by a mere 7 points. Without those bonus points, I would have […]
There are times where I really struggle with motivation. Yesterday was no exception. I was asleep far longer than I usually sleep for and that set the tone for most of the day. In addition, the mercury was also causing issues as well. The temperature was below 40 degrees for most of the day and […]
I like working with data, so I like any device that gives me insight into various running metrics. I recently purchased a Garmin Forerunner 945 Bundle with the HRM-Tri and HRM-Swim heart rate chest straps. Due to the pandemic, I have not been able to test out the HRM-Swim yet, but I have been able […]
I am currently trying to follow a training plan for a 50k on April 17th, 2021. Trying is the key word because I am quite terrible at following plans. There is an activity challenge going on at my work to do 30 minutes of activity per day, I have been going a little overboard. I […]
I apologize to those that are looking for the GT Sport site. I have taken it offline due to the fact that an anomaly with the application that pulls the data from Polyphony Digital. This was causing the data to be incredibly inaccurate and would have been counter productive. I’m not a fan of presenting […]
So, my first real post will give you all a little overview of how I got started. It has been a little over two years since I started this journey. For all intents and purposes, the journey technically started in 2015. Until June or July of 2015, I had been a smoker for roughly 20 […]
I was out for a run earlier today and I thought I would try to start doing the blog thing again. Not much to say today but we’ll see what happens tomorrow.