Archive for June, 2008
Hammer Nutrition Announce Three Great New Flavors!
HEED – Hammer Nutrition’s popular sports drink – is now available in two great new flavors; Mild Melon and Subtle Berry. I’m typically a fan of the Mandarin Orange flavor, but now I’ve tasted Mild Melon (the good folks at Hammer Nutrition included several sample packs in my last order), I think I’ll soon be [...]
McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 1 Day 1
June 30th, 2008 marks the beginning of an exciting new training phase for me; a 20 week custom marathon program put together by top coach Greg McMillan. Today is the first day of the plan and I’ve decided on the following format to summarize the current training phase, brief workout details and purpose of each [...]
Hundred Push Ups: Week 3 Day 1
Here we go; Week 3 Day 1 of the Hundred Push Ups plan. I knew going into the workout it was going to be a tough one. I failed at this level the same time last year, and remembered all to well how challenging it was. Looking back, I probably should have performed my push [...]
Progressive Five Miler
Another character-building hot and humid run today; 5 progressively faster miles with a much needed cool down mile to finish. MotionBased hasn’t yet confirmed the temperature for my workout, but I would guess it was in the low 90′s. Humidity seemed high too and I was sweating uncontrollably before I’d covered half a mile. The [...]
Saturday Run. Smoky Again
Not much to report on this smoky, Saturday afternoon run. It was hot and humid and a bit of a struggle towards the end if I’m honest. Luckily I had my wife to keep me company and the hour in the smoky conditions caused by North Carolina wildfires actually went by quite fast. The Evans [...]
Hundred Push Ups: Week 2 Exhaustion Test
I completed Week 2 of the hundred push ups plan a couple of days ago, so today was the day to perform an exhaustion test to determine which column of Week 3 I need to follow starting tomorrow. I was quietly confident of making the required 25 push ups or more to get into column [...]
Featured On The Runner’s Lounge Blog: Meet Steve Speirs
I’ll spare you the details, but there’s a rather nice article all about yours truly over at the great Runner’s Lounge Blog. Enjoy! If you haven’t checked out the Runner’s Lounge web site; it’s a “friendly meet-up space for runners to connect with other runners, talk about running, and share running resources”. Well worth a [...]
Some Strides On The Track
After completing Week 2 of my abs program, I headed out into the smog of Virginia Beach for a six mile run. The goal was to run easily to the local High School track, perform several “strides” (actually you may know them as windsprints, pickups, striders or stride outs, but they’re the same thing), and [...]
Hundred Push Ups: The End Of Week 2
Required: 15, 15, 12, 12, at least 15 Actual: 15, 15, 12, 12, 30 (bold for effect © Stubborn Running) Tonight I decided to try something different and do the push ups before my run. On paper, Week 2 Day 3 looked quite challenging and I wanted to be able to give it my best [...]
Just A Run
Tonight there was no Garmin GPS and no Polar stopwatch; it was just an easy five mile run. I’ve been digesting my McMillan marathon training plan and one of the key concepts is the following: Stress a muscle or energy system and it will adapt to a higher functional level. But the key factor that [...]
