Last weekend I competed at the USATF Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships. I took home a couple of medals, but mostly it was an exercise in humility! It was great fun, I made some excellent friends, and I left feeling incredibly invigorated. My journey to the nationals began last summer. As I haveContinue reading “My First Track Meet”
Category Archives: Health & Sports
2018 Winter Olympics Wrap-Up
Another Olympics has come and gone, so it is once again time to take a look at who “won” the Games by several different metrics. Per my previous posts, I continue to use a weighted scoring system to tally up Olympic medals by country. This year I once again tracked not just the medal countsContinue reading “2018 Winter Olympics Wrap-Up”
Summer Olympics Wrap-Up
The Rio Olympics have come and gone! Although there was great anxiety that it would be a cluster****, the games seem to have gone off just fine. Because we don’t have TV at home, Katie and I were only able to watch a few select events that were made available by the BBC – mostlyContinue reading “Summer Olympics Wrap-Up”
Summer Track 2016 PRs
Another summer track season has come and gone and this year I was running with power. Below are my PRs from this year’s events with previous years’ PRs in parentheses: I didn’t focus on any of the sprint events this season and only “raced” the 800m-3,000m, where I mostly saw improvement. One takeaway is that,Continue reading “Summer Track 2016 PRs”
Sir Walter Miler
Last night Katie and I took advantage of our proximity to Raleigh and attended the Sir Walter Miler. It’s an annual race at which elite runners try to set new records in the mile. It was a really fun environment as spectators were allowed down on the track during the races to cheer on theContinue reading “Sir Walter Miler”
Four on the Fourth Race Report
Last week I raced my third annual Four on the Fourth 4-mile road race, the first event of the three-event Tour de Carrboro. Because I now have a full half year of training by power (and power data from a previous four-mile road race), I was comfortable running this race by power instead of paceContinue reading “Four on the Fourth Race Report”
Book Review: Run With Power
Run With Power: The Complete Guide to Power Meters for Running This is a really good first effort in the nascent world of running by power. There are three potential audiences for this book: Triathletes who are already accustomed to cycling by power – this book “translates” cycling power principles and training guidelines to the worldContinue reading “Book Review: Run With Power”
Training Results with Power
One of the key metrics when training with power is known as Critical Power (CP) or Functional Threshold Power (FTP). It is analogous to your Lactate Threshold (LT) and, like LT, your training zones are calculated as various percentages of it. CP is effectively the amount of power you can sustain during an all-out, 1-hourContinue reading “Training Results with Power”
Training With Power
Last year I moved from running just about every day to a lower-volume methodology that had me running just two key training runs a week plus running for fun in between. The results for me were: super simple program to administer increased race performance reduced injury rate time and energy for all of the otherContinue reading “Training With Power”
Tar Heel 4 Miler 2016 Race Report – This Time With Power!
Last month I competed in my third Tar Heel 4 Miler, the biggest race each year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where I live. They offer a 10-mile version, too, but I lose interest once I hit double digit mileage, so the 4 Miler has become one of my key races each year since weContinue reading “Tar Heel 4 Miler 2016 Race Report – This Time With Power!”