Does the Training Determine the Diet or the Diet Determing the Training?
And since I’m a bit emotionally exhausted from the last week and a half of updates about the dogs, I’m actually going to try to keep this a bit short. The question I want to address today is this: Does the diet determine the training or does the training determine the diet? This isn’t really a direct question that comes up anywhere, but it is ultimately an issue that needs addressing as I hope you’ll soon see.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Thank You
I just want to make a quick post about what happened after last week’s series of articles on Volunteering at The Austin Humane Shelter. I had been last Friday and simply been told that ‘the response to your articles has been amazing’ but I knew no more than that. I knew that a tremendous number of donations had come in and had asked for an overall total so I could thank people later this week.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 5
Ok, this is it, the final piece of this series (Part 4 got too long so I split it up) and I want to sum up quickly (and improve my SEO of course) before moving to endgame. In Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1, I mainly talked about the shelter itself and some of the good work that they do including the volunteer program. In Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter Part 2, I introduced you to the idea of color levels for both the dogs and the volunteers. This was all just a setup for the real manipulation I had in mind.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 4
Yesterday, in Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 3, I talked about my general experiences at the shelter during the summer and falling in love with a dog named Babe who then got sick and adopted. I’m going to continue in that vein and keep telling you about how the shelter really impacted on me and why I think volunteering, either at a dog shelter or elsewhere, can be a good thing to do. I’ll wrap up tomorrow and really hit you where it hurts and I apologize for not having any doggie pictures today. They just didn’t fit my flow.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 3
In Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1 and Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1 I described the shelter itself, what they do there, and how the volunteer program in fairly abstract terms. I also tortured you with dog pictures. I know I said I didn’t want to be a general advocate for what they do but I really do feel that their program is brilliantly set up and run well and I’d thump on about it for that reason alone.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 2
In Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1, I talked about the shelter itself, what it does, how adoptions work and introduced some of the volunteer programs including the BRATT program I’m involved with. I also finished by introducing the idea of different color levels for the dogs and that’s where I’ll pick up today since nothing I said yesterday can possibly have made any sense.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1
This is probably not a post that you ever expected to see on this site, especially given my reputation for being a misanthropic asshole who hates everybody and everything (that’s untrue by the way, I simply dislike 97% of everybody and everything). And it’s certainly not a post I ever thought I would be making. But it’s important so here it is.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 6
So, as described in Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 5, I had managed to eke out 3.5 weeks of decent preparation for the Houston inline marathon, had had two nights of sleep and was now in Houston. I watched some tv and crashed like an absolute rock. Two days of too little sleep will do that.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 5
Ok, so having come through my recent bout with Overtraining, Overreaching and depression, I finally got myself back on some sort of track; as discussed in Part 2 of that series, with a mere 3 weeks to prepare, I targeted the final race of the season, a half-marathon on what looked to be a fast course in Houston. Had things gone differently this summer, I’d have entered the marathon where I belong but I simply didn’t have time to get my fitness to a sufficient level so the half it was.
