Published in July 18th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m currently reading Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by Jim Stockdale (again). I’m not quite finished yet, but the book is chocked full of wisdom that is applicable to [my] life once the translation between military life and [...]
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Published in May 5th, 2008
One possible way of spending retirement is to enroll in marathons, ironmen (or is that ironmans?), ultracycling, etc. all over the country or planet depending on ambition. Last Sunday I completed my first century (actually it turned into 123 miles (197km) since I took a wrong turn at some point) which was quite fun [...]
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Published in April 27th, 2008
This blog is turning into a cycling blog. The past few weeks I have posted several times on the century (100 miles) I’m doing next Sunday. Although I have now been told that this have little or nothing to do with running a marathon, I think that the underlying requirements are the same. The requirements [...]
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Published in April 23rd, 2008
So yesterday I was out all afternoon training for the upcoming 100 miler. It’s the Sunday after the next one which leaves me two weeks to get ready for battle. During my lunch break, I rode up to the top of the local hill. Based on my rough estimate this is a 4-6% climb over [...]
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Published in April 19th, 2008
Today I went riding on a 20M loop. I passed 10-12 riders heading in the opposite direction. First the was the solo riders in team wear, then a couple of riders wheel sucking following by other couples (husband & wife). These were followed by the hoi polloi, people riding three or four abreast chatting, a [...]
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Published in April 18th, 2008
First some nomenclature: A century is 100 miles on a bicycle. It is something serious cyclists would maybe call a long ride, but which weekend warriors have elevated to event status as a testament to the fact that in our culture doing things with other people somehow validates crazy behavior.
In case you want to join [...]
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Published in April 14th, 2008
I first got introduced to hockey in phys ed. in elementary school. Our teacher handed out these yellow plastic sticks and put two mylec goals at each end and let us have at it. I saw a similar spectacle a couple of years ago. This time the kids were wearing gloves and full head gear [...]
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Published in April 4th, 2008
Not relying on a car (other than the occasional lift from DW), one of the things I have to worry about is overtraining(*) especially given that I’m not 20 anymore. The fact that I’m mostly moved by muscle power means that I have a rather real sense of how far I can go and how [...]
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Published in March 10th, 2008
Recently Trent at The Simple Dollar posted his schedule. I think it’s quite interesting to see what goes on behind the curtains because even when everybody mostly live in the same types of houses, drive the same kinds of cars, buy the same stuff and have jobs, we are all quite different when it [...]
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Published in March 6th, 2008
The title of this post is “Fit Dad Fat Dad” partially in honor of Rich Dad Poor Dad and partially to stir up some controversy in exactly the same way as RDPD does.
RDPD has a fairly poor reputation amongst pf bloggers. I think the reason is that it questions widely held beliefs on personal [...]
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