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Bid me run...
January 25, 2010 | 2:15 pm
I was a lab rat yesterday. And it was actually pretty awesome. Aerobics First was sharing a booth with the New Balance guys at the Optimyz Live Show at the World Trade and Convention Centre. We had a treadmill, and after Daniel Crumback's very engaging presentation we decided we would do some testing on it. I was wearing a harness/heart rate monitor that was measuring how far I was leaning forward at certain speeds, what my heart rate was, and how deeply and frequently I was breathing. We also calculated my running cadence.
Once more unto the breach (for) dear friends.
January 18, 2010 | 10:57 am
Your body forgets how this stuff feels. Maybe because the thing is so uncomfortable, it's like a defense mechanism. The training week was highlighted by my first "real" workout since October 12, 2008. I put the goofy looking quotation marks around "real" because, although it certainly felt like a workout, it really should be a walk in the park; regardless of how long it's been. It was last Thursday. The workout was pretty simple; just a forty minute run with fifteen minutes of tempo, broken up into three five minute reps.
...Always a runner? (Rich's opening statements)
January 12, 2010 | 2:22 pm
I guess this is blog entry number one, so I'd better introduce the concept of this thing. From about fourteen to twenty-two years old I ran fairly competitively. The 800m was always my favourite event; I won the 800m at the 2003 Nova Scotia High School championships in a pretty deep year. After high school I ran five years in the CIS and won two national titles with the University of Victoria Vikes 4X800m relay team. After graduating, finding motivation to run was pretty tough for me. I "trained" for another year but the races just weren't happening.
