Coming to a theater near you!
Okay, I first inclination is to go straight to the gutter but these are supposedly actual cycling items. Since I’m still a novice in the ways of cycling, I’m looking for some advice/reviews if these little babies are worth the investment.
They’re advertised as having the ability to use ‘harmonic damper technology to cancel high frequency vibrations’, thus saving my hands from going completely numb on my 300 mile trek across Michigan.
I just really like the name............
Well, I'm back on the two a day workout routine. This morning was a 45
minute spinning class, which I need just to be sitting in the saddle.
They've made some modifications to our classes. Someone has decided that
the music being played during the class shouldn't contain a lot of
lyrics.
The thinking is the lyrics tend to distract individuals in the
class. Without lyrics, people will be better able to focus on their
peddle stroke and intensity.
I don't get it, we're on stationary bikes.
How much focus do I need? I can't fall off, okay maybe I can.
Being a child of the Motown age, I need and love lyrics. I've
been known to start up a tune during a marathon.
I'm the guy that makes up lyrics when he doesn't know the right
ones. What can I do with a song that has no words (Billy Preston
tribute).
Anyway, I survived the simulated mountain climbs and sprints by shouting
out obscenities instead.
Lunchtime brought about EXTREME torture class. I'm not sure if I'm getting stronger or the class routine is getting less torturous but I didn't die today! We're still doing Dive Bombers, Burpees and today it was Get Ups(one-armed straight arm with dumbbell and getting off the floor for twenty reps).
No running tonight with the Tuesday group, we've finally got rain during the evening.
minute spinning class, which I need just to be sitting in the saddle.
They've made some modifications to our classes. Someone has decided that
the music being played during the class shouldn't contain a lot of
lyrics.
The thinking is the lyrics tend to distract individuals in the
class. Without lyrics, people will be better able to focus on their
peddle stroke and intensity.
I don't get it, we're on stationary bikes.
How much focus do I need? I can't fall off, okay maybe I can.
Being a child of the Motown age, I need and love lyrics. I've
been known to start up a tune during a marathon.
I'm the guy that makes up lyrics when he doesn't know the right
ones. What can I do with a song that has no words (Billy Preston
tribute).
Anyway, I survived the simulated mountain climbs and sprints by shouting
out obscenities instead.
Lunchtime brought about EXTREME torture class. I'm not sure if I'm getting stronger or the class routine is getting less torturous but I didn't die today! We're still doing Dive Bombers, Burpees and today it was Get Ups(one-armed straight arm with dumbbell and getting off the floor for twenty reps).
No running tonight with the Tuesday group, we've finally got rain during the evening.
Talk about being on two separate ends of the spectrum. The Olympics Trials ended with a 40 plus year old woman breaking records in the pool and a 16 year-old pixy passing older runners on the track. Then the Williams sisters dominate at Wimbledon.
I don’t know about you but I had my Tivo going on overtime this past week. The Olympic Trails make me want to go out and swim laps, after I run the hurdles and finish with a steeplechase. I own a tennis racket but that won’t be happening any time soon, sorry Serena and Venus.
We finally had what I perceive to be summertime weather, blue skies and sunshine. I actually got on my bike for the third consecutive day and wobbly legs and a very tender a$$..........
How the hell do those Tour de France guys do it?
This Fourth of July weekend was the weekend to begin cramming for my Make-A-Wish 300-mile bike ride. Just as the Tour De France was starting out, I was going to get in consecutive days of long rides.
Sandy and I started on Friday with a 40+ mile ride and it wasn’t bad at all. The weather was perfect with little or no wind and the sun shined on us the entire ride. I’m feeling a little more confident about this thang!
Saturday was going to be a little longer and it didn’t feel good from the beginning. I was having some issue with my soft tissue areas just a few miles into the ride. Why is it the wind is constantly in my face but the trees aren't moving? Is there such a thing as ‘street wind’?
Needless to say, I had no legs and I wasn’t having any fun. If you can’t have fun doing it, why do it?
Forty miles into it, I was ready to get in any car, but we were still ten plus miles from home. Fortunately we happened upon a Party Store, so I knew what I needed to improve my attitude. After a few refreshing ounces of a cold BEvERage, I was ready to push on.
52 Miles of sun soaked, headwind blowing in my face the whole way, uphill all of the way, I was home.
Less than twenty days of intense training left for me before I die on the road!
Why is it that it always seemed like a good idea at the time……..
Sandy and I started on Friday with a 40+ mile ride and it wasn’t bad at all. The weather was perfect with little or no wind and the sun shined on us the entire ride. I’m feeling a little more confident about this thang!
Saturday was going to be a little longer and it didn’t feel good from the beginning. I was having some issue with my soft tissue areas just a few miles into the ride. Why is it the wind is constantly in my face but the trees aren't moving? Is there such a thing as ‘street wind’?
Needless to say, I had no legs and I wasn’t having any fun. If you can’t have fun doing it, why do it?
Forty miles into it, I was ready to get in any car, but we were still ten plus miles from home. Fortunately we happened upon a Party Store, so I knew what I needed to improve my attitude. After a few refreshing ounces of a cold BEvERage, I was ready to push on.
52 Miles of sun soaked, headwind blowing in my face the whole way, uphill all of the way, I was home.
Less than twenty days of intense training left for me before I die on the road!
Why is it that it always seemed like a good idea at the time……..
I did something I haven’t done in quite some time. I skipped my lunchtime EXTREME class and went out to lunch! That’s right, I went to a restaurant with metal utensils and cloth napkins.
It was a little weird trying to eat pasta with a spoon and knife but the memories came back and I remembered how to use the fork. You can use a lot more pressure with real tableware as opposed to the plastic that I normally use while dining in front of my monitor at my desk.
The lunch occasion was for a co-worker that is leaving the company. This guy is a phenomenal runner and all around great guy. He’s also extremely knowledgeable about running and can rattle off the names of the men’s elite as if he knew them.
The really strange thing is that I definitely feel guilty about missing my lunchtime workout! I even took a glance at the class when I got back from lunch. They looked they were having so much fun, NOT!
The weather is absolutely fantastic, so in order to justify having a few BEvERages, I’m going out and running with the Tuesday drinking/running club.
It’s been a while since I ran but I think it’s still left, right, left..............
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