#65 party poopers and runner’s high….a crazy week of triathlon training

Last week I was headed out the door to go get some footage of my swimming caught on tape.  If you’ve read along, you know that my swimming is a definite limiter…..lots of room to improve.  Part of the reason of course is b/c I never really learned to swim for speed growing up……never participated on a swim team, so it’s like learning a new skill.What I’m finding about swimming though is that it is at least as much skill […]

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#64 a little gas on the fire to get things going?

Coming off a week of training where I felt like I was a little behind the stress-curve complete with all of the key indicators (a cold), I decided this was a good week to back off the total training volume (i.e. lots of long sessions) which for me is by far the greatest stressor.  The compromise though was that in order to do so without losing substantial ground, I’d have to give myself a little intensity “pop”…..a little gas on […]

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#63: Without it there can be no growth…..but too much will break you

STRESS…..it’s such a huge topic and truly, it’s everywhere.  In my professional role as both Physical Therapist and health/prevention consultant, I’ve lectured on the topic formally on many occasions, whether talking about physical stress to aide recovery or mental stress in the workplace. Informally, I’ve had an almost innumerable number of discussions that are tied back to it……and in those moments, I almost always find myself reiterating the point that stress is not inherently a bad thing worthy of so […]

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