Because We Let Them: Addendum
I ran Tour of Chicago: 2011 Race Report Part 2 on Wednesday so I could fit this in today before launching into a 6 part, 3-week mega series that I’m starting next week. This is a followup to the Because We Let Them series, some thoughts that either occurred to me afterwards or that I just left out because I didn’t plan it out well enough. It’s sort of a grab bag of topics on the stuff I touched on in that series.
Tour of Chicago: 2011 Race Report Part 2
I slept well enough Saturday night, fatigue will do that too you. It hadn’t rained although there was more ominous lightening during the night. Alarm went off at an all too early 6:45am (it takes me about 3 hours to get generally warmed up and race time was at 9:45am). I cleaned up and ate a small breakfast (protein bar + banana) since blood glucose/glycogen could be an issue for a race this long and had a bunch of water so I’d be hydrated but have time to pee out any extra. Legs were definitely a touch heavy and I was feeling the two races from yesterday.
Tour of Chicago: 2011 Race Report Part 1
Ok, picking up from Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 14, it’s time for the first part of the race report. There will actually be a bit of overlap with the previous article just in terms of the days. And if it seems a bit more stream of consciousness than usual, it’s because I’m doing it on the fly to kill time in the hotel.
Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 14
Today I’ll look at how the block actually progressed week by week (or didn’t), note anything of interest and talk about my final taper to the Chicagoland Inline Marathon.. More specifically, I was doing the Tour of Chicago, 3 races across two days consisting of a 10k pack race Saturday morning, a 2 mile individual time trial Saturday afternoon and the full Marathon pack race on Sunday. It was going to be a hell of a weekend that was for sure and it required that I develop pretty much every physiological system as well as I could.
Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 13
Ok, time to prattle again. Previously, in Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 11 and Methods of Endurance Training: 2011 Season Part 12, I looked in some detail at my post-race analysis of my performance at the Texas Road Rash, what I had determined and how I had set up my training to address the problems leading into the next major event, the Chicagoland Inline Tour an omnium type event consisting of three races across two days. If nothing else, this would make travelling worthwhile since I’d get to do a lot of racing (and be flat exhausted afterwards).
Because We Let Them: Part 4
Ok, I’m going to pick up where I left off yesterday and move straight into a quick discussion of when we use punishment at the Austin Humane Shelter. As I’ve noted, we ideally avoid this but the examples I’m going to provide are relevant as a segue to some more general comments and wrapping this up by trying to look at a whole shedload of different stuff. It’s going to be long today, had I planned better I would have done this across multiple weeks or every day this week but that’s not going to happen. So…grab a drink and get ready.
Because We Let Them: Part 3
Ok, as this has rapidly gotten out of my control here’s another update today so I can wrap up Friday and talk about skate training next week. So far I talked about some general concepts of behaviorism including positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment in Because We Let Them: Part 1. I also looked at the benefit of sometimes just ignoring a given behavior.
Because We Let Them: Part 2
In Because We Let Them: Part 1, on top of filling some space until I talk about my own training next week, I managed to tie a lesson I learned during one of the doggie training classes at the Austin Humane Shelter into a brief discussion of behaviorism and the 4 primary approaches taken to alter behavior. I also realized that this was going to be too long and I’d need more than my original 2 parts. Which screws up my scheduling but ah well, this is going to be a 4 update week.
Because We Let Them: Part 1
Ok, one more semi-pointless bit of babbling today and Friday to follow up Excluding the Middle and What You Can Control vs. What You Can’t Control. This will actually have a bit of application: for those in the training/coaching field it may give you a different perspective on dealing with clients. It actually as a much broader application, pretty much to all aspects of life. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
What You Can Control vs. What You Can’t Control
Ok, hang on for another (hopefully) brief and pointless piece; the research review I wanted to do won’t come together for some reason and the mega-series I’m writing won’t work scheduling for reasons you’ll see shortly. So it’s going to be more semi-pointless babbling in the vein of Tuesday’s Excluding the Middle. Make no mistake, I’ll try to make it at least somewhat worth reading or apply it in some fashion. As a teaser, just realize that if you keep reading given this introduction, it was your choice to do so. Har har.
