Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 2
In Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010 Part 1, I talked about how I had moved into transition after getting my head out of my ass enough to do the Houston race and the thought process I had put into deciding what I wanted to do during my winter training. While it may have seemed primarily like self-important prattling, if you paid attention you might have gotten some ideas of how to think through setting up your own training programs.
Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 1
Today I’m going to move back into self-indulgent prattling mode and talk about how I went about setting up my own winter training for the 2011 speed skating season. Make no mistake, it’s not just self-indulgent prattle. If you pay attention, you may pick up some ideas on how to go about setting up your own training as I lay out the thought process into how I laid out mine. Or you may not.
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.
Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 2
As I mentioned in Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 1, one thing that tends to increase with depression is rumination, your brain starts going 90 miles an hour as you worry about your problems. Among other things I was worrying about (including the proverbial, what am I going to do with the rest of my life), one question was what exactly had happened to my skating and training and racing? That is, how had things gone from so good to so bad overnight?
Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 1
As readers with good memories will recall from Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 4, I had travelled to Napa, California to race another half-marathon and despite cramping after a crash at the second turnaround, came close to my goal time and ‘won’ (inasmuch as there was little to no competition and even the announcer made a crack about me sandbagging when I got my medal; ha ha). After the race I had a brutally long and boring drive back to LA, hung out with some friends and then got on a plane the following morning.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 4
Having discussed my training immediately after the Texas Road Rash in Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 3, I want to return to the realm of self-indulgent prattling and provide another detailed race report. This race was the Napa Inline Marathon in Napa Valley California where both a half-marathon (13.1 miles) and full marathon (26.2 miles) were being held with an open division for the half- and full along with the pro/elite division for the full marathon.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 3
In any case, as some of you might have guessed, I was travelling to an inline race. So while I continue to put off doing a research review (it’s been months), I’ll do yet another update on my own endurance training including how I prepared for my second race of the year and how it turned out. Again, two parts with today discussing some physiology and training concepts and continuing Friday with another self-indulgent race report.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 2
On Tuesday, in Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 1 I went into some detail about how I finished my first block of endurance training and had structured my current training aiming at outdoor inline races. Today I’m going to move away from application and physiology and prattle self-indulgently a bit. Specifically, I’m going to give a race report on my first race.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 1
Today, and most likely Friday, I’m going to do another follow-up on that, discussing how my own training for outdoor inline training has progressed/evolved and then show you the real-world results of the training. The timing is only relevant as I completed my first race this past Saturday which is why I’m taking the break from the Overtraining series. Today I’m going to focus mostly on training physiology, Friday I’m going to prattle a bit to show you how my training ended up serving me at my first inline race in over 15 years.
